Novel Three-Atom Molecular Fountain Experiment Could Identify a Candidate for Dark Matter
In Search for Dark Matter, New Fountain Design Could Become Wellspring of Answers You can’t see it. You can’t feel it. But the substance scientists…
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Redefining a Second: Three of the World’s Leading Atomic Clocks Compared With Record Accuracy
In a significant advance toward the future redefinition of the international unit of time, the second, a research team led by the National Institute of…
Artificial Life Forged in a Lab? Scientists Create Synthetic Cell That Grows and Divides Normally
New findings shed light on mechanisms controlling the most basic processes of life. Five years ago, scientists created a single-celled synthetic organism that, with only…
A Better Way to Measure Acceleration – Tiny Accelerometer Uses Laser Light to Produce a Signal
You’re going at the speed limit down a two-lane road when a car barrels out of a driveway on your right. You slam on the…
K9 Chemistry: A Safer Way to Train Explosives and Narcotics Detection Dogs
Canine trainers may no longer need to handle or expose dogs to real explosives and narcotics. Trained dogs are incredible chemical sensors, far better at…
A New Way to Synthesize Hydrocarbons Could Reduce CO2 Emissions and Slash Costs of Chemical Manufacturing
Room Temperature Conversion of CO2 to CO New method could potentially reduce carbon dioxide emission into the atmosphere and slash costs of chemical manufacturing. Researchers…
Airflow Videos Clearly Show Why Masks With Exhalation Valves Do Not Slow the Spread of COVID-19
This video, created using a schlieren imaging system, shows airflow dynamics when wearing an N95 mask with an exhalation valve (left) and without an exhalation…
A New Way to Synthesize Hydrocarbons Could Reduce Dioxide Emissions and Slash Costs of Chemical Manufacturing
Room temperature conversion of CO2 to CO Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a room-temperature method…
Dark Matter: A Billion Tiny Pendulums Could Detect the Universe’s Missing Mass
Researchers have proposed a novel method for finding dark matter. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have proposed…
New Method of 3D-Printing Soft Materials Could Jump-Start Creation of Tiny Medical Devices for the Body
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new method of 3D-printing gels and other soft materials. Published in a…
Photorealistic Painting With Light: Nanopillars Precisely Control the Color and Intensity of Transmitted Light
The approach has potential applications in improving optical communications and making currency harder to counterfeit. By shining white light on a glass slide stippled with…
Spin Wave Detective Story Redux: More Surprising Behavior Discovered in a 2D Magnet
A few months ago, a team of scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reported something surprising about a 2D magnetic material:…
Scientists Build a Better Nanoscale LED – A Tiny, Bright Light That Can Transform Into a Laser
New design overcomes long-standing LED efficiency problem — and can transform into a laser to boot. A new design for light-emitting diodes (LEDs) developed by…
A Crazier Crazy Straw for Cutting-Edge Science
Curlicued research tool propels fast-moving fluids for study by neutrons. What do the loopy straws that children like to sip drinks through have in common…
Can Facial Recognition Algorithms Identify You When Wearing a COVID Mask? Surprising Research Results
Algorithms created before the pandemic generally perform less accurately with digitally masked faces. Now that so many of us are covering our faces to help…
Shrinking (Ultra)Violet: Using Narrow Wavebands of UV Light to Kill Germs in Drinking Water
NIST researchers describe unique system for testing how well narrow wavebands of UV light kill germs. While awaiting full access to their labs due to…
New Design for “Optical Ruler” Could Revolutionize Clocks, Telescopes, Telecommunications
Just as a meter stick with hundreds of tick marks can be used to measure distances with great precision, a device known as a laser…
Atomic ‘Swiss Army Knife’ Precisely Measures Advanced Materials for Quantum Computers
NIST unveils blueprint for building a three-in-one measurement tool to study quantum materials. It images single atoms. It maps atomic-scale hills and valleys on metal…