The National Institute of Standards (NIST) conducted experiments in an abandoned high-rise building on New York City’s Governors Island to learn how to better control or suppress deadly heat and smoke ...

The protective clothing worn by wildland firefighters often contains PFAS, according to a new study from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The study also found PFAS in hoods ...

U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement after the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a ...

Two researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology are working on a model of how to help save your building's occupants in the case of a high-rise fire. The two research, Stephen ...

A power outage on Dec. 19 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) campus in Boulder, Colo., disrupted operation of the NIST-F4 atomic clock. Hurricane force winds and dry ...