New method could potentially reduce carbon dioxide emission into the atmosphere and slash costs of chemical manufacturing. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a room-temperature method that could significantly reduce carbon…

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…

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded 19 small businesses in 12 states a total of more than $4.4 million in grants to support innovative technology development. The awardees will…

Trump Administration Aims to Ensure U.S. Offshore Competitiveness WASHINGTON –The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) will advance new research into whether certain policy changes could help increase oil and gas…

By: Nancy Lin Advanced therapies are poised to change the face of medicine, promising to cure diseases that have long resisted us. But there are many challenges to overcome before we can make full use of these life-saving therapies, including…

Dr. Jeff Burgess, associate dean for research in the UArizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, received a grant of $7.7 million from the Centers for Disease Control to to conduct a COVID-19 research study called AZ HEROES…

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…

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…

by Steve Yozwiak Oncologists, radiologists and surgeons all could benefit, according to a TGen-led study of brain tumors PHOENIX, Arizona — Melding the genetic and cellular analysis of tumors with how they appear in medical images could give physicians and…

by Zach Sweger HERSHEY, Pa. — Researchers from Penn State College of Medicine identified a new gene mutation that may cause a type of familial thyroid cancer. Dr. Darrin Bann, an otolaryngology resident at the College of Medicine and lead…

By: Sheng Ran Nature often reveals itself in surprising ways, so scientists, who study nature, have a lot of opportunities to be surprised. Over the past year and a half, I have been working on UTe2, a simple compound made…

HERSHEY, Pa. — Researchers at Penn State College of Medicine have developed a new method to model how genes interact with each other — and it may someday contribute to the development of personalized treatments for patients. According to the…