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…
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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…
32 Cloth Materials Tested & Analyzed for COVID-19 Face Coverings by National Institute of Standards and Technology
Face Coverings Made From Layered Cotton Fabric Likely Slow the Spread of COVID-19 Better Than Synthetics Researchers have completed a new study of how well…
New Mathematical Formula May Help 5G Wireless Networks Efficiently Share Communications Frequencies
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a mathematical formula that, computer simulations suggest, could help 5G and other wireless…
Physicists Build Hybrid Quantum System by Entangling Molecule With Atom – Could Enable Large-Scale Quantum Computers
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have boosted their control of the fundamental properties of molecules at the quantum level by…
New Recipe for Single-Atom Transistors May Enable Quantum Computers With Unparalleled Memory and Processing Power
Linking multiple copies of these devices may lay the foundation for quantum computing. Once unimaginable, transistors consisting only of several-atom clusters or even single atoms…