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A small orange is packaged in a plastic container with a lid.

A Polymer Scientist Wrestles — Literally and Figuratively — With the Frustrations of Plastic Packaging

January 4, 2024

Kate Beers

If you’ve resolved to be a more eco-conscious consumer this year, learn about how NIST’s circular economy lead thinks about plastic packaging in our everyday lives.

Yellowish blades of kelp are growing under the surface of the water.

Improving Recycling, Tracking Mercury and Analyzing Kelp: A Sample of Eco-Friendly Research Featured on NIST Social Media

June 8, 2022

Riley Wilson

Preserving our planet's health is no small feat, and NIST researchers are tackling the challenge from multiple angles.

Callie Higgins in a lab. She is standing in front of a reflective screen surrounding an atomic force microscope.

3D Printing With Light: A Q&A With NIST's Callie Higgins

April 28, 2021

Callie Higgins is a materials research engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She studies a special branch of additive manufacturing called vat photopolymerization, which uses light to solidify a liquid resin layer by layer into a 3D object. Callie is a finalist for a

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A Winding Road: From the Hills to the Halls of NIST

June 17, 2019

Jeremiah Woodcock

My mother and father did not plan to become parents while still in high school, but they never viewed it in a negative light and soon presented me with three brothers and a sister. Even at their tender age, they did an amazing job raising us. As I grew up, I discovered I had a deep curiosity about

man in a white lab coat and safety goggles loads a metal oxide framework material into a testing machine

Moving Forward While Giving Back: Continuing the Cycle of Mentorship

February 25, 2019

Christopher Sims

As a kid growing up, I’d always had an interest in learning about the world we live in, from reading Zoobooks to watching the History Channel to exploring the neighborhood on my bike. However, it wasn’t until high school that I discovered my excitement for chemistry while taking Mr. Joseph Harris’

a drop of water springing up from a pool

‘Day Zero’ Denied: Solving the Looming Water Crisis

June 7, 2018

Christopher Stafford

“When the Well's dry, we know the Worth of Water.” —Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack In early 2018, Cape Town, South Africa, became the first major city to come face-to-face with something unthinkable in the modern world: It nearly ran out of fresh, drinkable water. Around the world

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Directing My Energy Toward a Sustainable Future

April 22, 2016

Ted Heilweil

Have you ever wondered what might happen if we run out of fossil fuels? How do you think we will be able to survive without the resources we need to heat and cool our homes and buildings or the raw materials we use to create all the plastics that make up our modern world? Indeed, if we continue to

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