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A Summer of Science: How Our Interns Spent Their Summers in the Lab

July 25, 2025

Megan King

From self-driving cars to advancing forensics technology, NIST’s interns had a busy summer in the lab.

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles: NIST Edition

April 30, 2025

Riley Wilson

However you choose to get from A to B, NIST helped make your preferred mode of transportation safer and more standardized.

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Robots and AI Are Working Together to Bring You Better Medicines, Shampoo and More

December 19, 2024

Peter Beaucage

Products you use every day are carefully formulated in a lab. Experts at NIST are now working to revolutionize how those products are made.

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Cruising Toward Self-Driving Cars: Standards and Testing Will Help Keep Autonomous Vehicles Moving Safely on the Road

January 17, 2023

Edward Griffor

NIST and its partners in government and industry are working toward replicating the vital aspects of human driving and building a supporting infrastructure.

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How Robots Could Teach Us to Trust AI

April 16, 2020

Jason Hattrick-Simpers

The influence of artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere in our lives. It helps us pick movies to stream, recommends old friends to reconnect with, and autocompletes our most pressing questions in search engines. Modern AIs are powerful machines, ingesting reams of data and outputting useful