Easily synthesized chemical filter could stop the greenhouse gas from reaching the atmosphere. How can carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, be removed from the exhaust…
NIST and DHS research collaboration reveals which wavelengths of UV light work best for COVID-19 virus disinfection. To disinfect a surface, you can illuminate it…
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have increased the sensitivity of their atomic radio receiver a hundredfold by enclosing the small…
Plastics are all around us, whether it’s the grocery bags we use at the supermarket or household items such as shampoo and detergent bottles. Plastics…
A new study that highlights a sharp contrast between urban and suburban ways of thinking about coastal ecosystems has been completed by researchers at the…
Alongside the newly updated human genome, which fills in long-standing gaps to fully spell out the more than 3 billion letters that compose our genetic…
Measurements of trees’ impact on 5G transmissions could prove vital to using a new class of signal. As 5G technology gets fully implemented over the…
Scientists boost the accuracy of optical microscopes to image microdroplets in flight and apply the method to analyze the concentration of plastic nanoparticles. Sneezes, rain…
Using a groundbreaking new technique at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an international research collaboration led by NIST scientists has revealed previously…
This ain’t your grandma’s fridge magnet. An exotic form of magnetism has been discovered and linked to an equally exotic type of electrons, according to…
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have linked together, or “entangled,” the mechanical motion and electronic properties of a tiny blue…
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have upgraded their laser frequency-comb instrument to simultaneously measure three airborne greenhouse gases — nitrous…
After the optical frequency comb made its debut as a ruler for light, spinoffs followed, including the astrocomb to measure starlight and a radar-like comb…
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Wavsens LLC have developed a method for using radio signals to create real-time images…
Like a chameleon of the night sky, the Moon often changes its appearance. It might look larger, brighter, or redder, for example, due to its…
Optical Fiber Could Boost Power of Superconducting Quantum Computers The secret to building superconducting quantum computers with massive processing power may be an ordinary telecommunications…
Researchers have spent more than three decades developing and studying miniature biosensors that can identify single molecules. In five to 10 years, when such devices…
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…
