The "NPS Data Hub" will help forensic chemists identify new types of fentanyl and other narcotics more quickly

New platform transforms gene editor into precision tool

Courtroom use of 'Likelihood Ratio' not consistently supported by scientific reasoning approach, say NIST experts

Scientists have developed an algorithm that automates a key step in forensic fingerprint analysis, which may make the process more reliable and efficient

With support from NIST, experts are developing tests to help identify people with the pattern-matching skills needed for analyzing fingerprints. Try your eye on a few of the questions by clicking on the link at the end of this article.

To advance video facial identification for these and other applications, the National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted a large public test known as the Face in Video Evaluation

Comparing the proteins of humans and these other mammals is already providing researchers with a wealth of new information about how the human body works

By mimicking how dogs get their whiffs, researchers have demonstrated that “active sniffing” can improve by more than 10 times the performance of current technologies that rely on continuous suction to detect trace amounts of explosives and other contraband

Redefinition will remove a nagging uncertainty in the official kilogram’s mass

Results underscore the need to extend benchmarking references against which sequencing data and analyses can be compared and validated.

Findings show that method can be a powerful complementary technique for assessing biosimilars

What do you know? There is now a world standard for capturing and conveying the knowledge that robots possess—or, to get philosophical about it, an ontology for automatons.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued for public review and comment a draft report summarizing 65 challenges that cloud computing poses to forensics investigators who uncover, gather, examine and interpret digital evidence to help solve crimes.

Particles of soot floating through the air and comets hurtling through space have at least one thing in common: 0.36. That, reports a research group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is the measure of how dense they will get under normal conditions, and it’s a value that seems to be constant for similar aggregates across an impressively wide size range from nanometers to tens of meters.*