Science and Technology

Feb 18, 2022

By Winifred Brown PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, CA – A team of archaeologists has solved the mystery of what lies under a layer of abalone shells on a proposed construction site at the Presidio of Monterey. Laura Prishmont-Quimby, the archaeologist and…

Jan 31, 2021

By William Weir Yale researchers are developing a skin cancer treatment that involves injecting nanoparticles into the tumor, killing cancer cells with a two-pronged approach, as a potential alternative to surgery. The results are published in the Proceedings of the…

Sep 30, 2020

Winners will receive $276,000 in prizes for breakthroughs in formal data privacy. BOULDER, Colo. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a crowdsourcing challenge to spur new methods to ensure that important…

Feb 19, 2020

A humpback whale breaching. Credit: Sally Mizroch/NOAA It’s not easy to do pregnancy tests on whales. You can’t just ask a wild ocean animal that’s the size of a school bus to pee on a little stick. For decades, the…

Feb 17, 2020

New mechanophore senses damage to fiber reinforced polymers. A team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a tool to monitor changes in widely used composite materials known as fiber reinforced polymers (FRPs), which can be…