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New Tool for Breast Cancer Screening

A little over three years ago, NIST scientist Katy Keenan came back from a conference with an ambitious idea: to improve the quality of magnetic resonance

HID Lamps: Getting Brighter Faster

NIST has been issued a patent for a novel method to improve the performance and utility of the sort of high-intensity discharge (HID) lamps used for stadium and

Nanoparticle Manufacturing Workshop

Following decades of research and development, commercial products enabled by nanoparticles are poised to have broad impact in diverse sectors of the global

RFPs: The Best and the Brightest

How, precisely, does disease begin and progress in a single cell? To fully understand such processes on the smallest scales, scientists need a way to peer deep

October OSAC Newsletter

The Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) has released its October 2015 monthly newsletter to communicate program status

Hydrogen Storage Formulation Patented

The prospect of a "hydrogen economy" – in which vehicles powered by fuel cells would travel the nation's roadways emitting nothing from their tailpipes but

September OSAC Newsletter

The Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) has released its September 2015 monthly newsletter to communicate program status

OSAC Publishes Inaugural OSAC Newsletter

The Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) is launching a monthly newsletter to communicate OSAC program status, activities

The Incredible Shrinking ESR Machine

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have come up with a way to shrink a research instrument generally associated with large