Features

Features RSS Feed | All Feeds

© NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY

Features 22 hours ago
Measuring Up: New NIST Director, Plus Big Budget Put Measurement Science in Public Eye
With $610 million in economic stimulus money added to his budget, Patrick Gallagher is preparing the nation's standards and measures agency for prime time

Features 23 hours ago
What to Do About Endocrine Disruptors? A Q&A with Linda Birnbaum
The new head of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program is attempting to uncover what role chemicals and contaminants may play in human health
Features 11/19/09
How Humanlike Was "Ardi"?
A second look a the 4.4-million-year-old primate that has sparked debate about upright walking and what it means to be in the human tribe
Features 11/18/09
BioScapes Photo Contest: 15 Honorable Mentions
Scientific American staff selections from the contest runners-up
Features 11/16/09
Grizzly Details: Salmon Collapse Could Be Bad News for Bears [Slide Show]
Scientists are collecting hairs from live bears to prevent population declines as a result of decreases in a principal food source: salmon

Features 11/18/09
Beyond the Still: 6 Bioscapes Contest Videos
Scientific American videos from the contest winner and runners-up

Features 11/13/09
Squashing Malaria: Advances in Research and Prevention [Slide Show]
From satellites to bacteria, researchers are searching high and low for the best tools to eradicate malaria

Features 11/11/09
Baked Australia: Water Management Lessons for the World from Down Under
Australia is at the forefront of a global water crisis. Some of the management lessons learned there could help bail out California and other parched regions before they meet the same fate

Features 11/9/09
It's All Semantics: Searching for an Intuitive Internet That Knows What Is Said--And Meant
The National Science Foundation delivers $1.1 million to Rensselaer Polytech researchers to stimulate the Semantic Web

Features 11/6/09
First Look at Carbon Capture and Storage in a West Virginia Coal-Fired Power Plant [Slide Show]
The world's first power facility to capture and store a portion of its carbon dioxide has begun operating in Appalachia

Features 11/2/09
How the Brain Reveals Why We Buy
Advances in neuroscience are changing the way some companies position their products, giving birth to the new field of neuromarketing

Features 10/30/09
Zombie Creatures: What Happens When Animals Are Possessed by a Parasitic Puppet Master? [Slide Show]
From fungi to flies, some parasitic species have figured out how to control their host's behavior to get what they need. See what happens when bugs go really bad

Features 10/22/09
Editing Scientists: Science and Policy at the White House
How much do policymakers shape the science that comes out of government agencies?

Features 10/21/09
Mary Anning and the Birth of Paleontology
The daughter of a cabinetmaker and amateur fossil collector, Anning made her mark in the budding field of paleontology in early 19th-century England through the discovery of the first complete plesiosaur fossil

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Next»

Subscription Center

Adapting to the Freshwater CrisisForward-thinking experts are getting a better handle on the growing global water shortage and coming up with innovative approaches to ensuring the security, safety and sustainability of this resource