Skip to content
HeyJared

NIST News

NIST News is the official news and communications outlet of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a U.S. Department of Commerce agency.

Outlet · US · Official site

Indexed articles, last 90 days
21
Latest publication
Sep 18, 2026
Audience
Top 500K sites
Earliest in this view
Jul 6, 2026

Latest articles

  1. Article · Sep 18, 2026

    NIST Awards More Than $1.7 Million to Support Cybersecurity Workforce Development Across 8 States (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Neutral tone · English

    Read excerpt

    Official websites use .gov A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. Secure .gov websites use HTTPS A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/09/nist-awards-more-17-million-support-cybersecurity-workforce-development GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (N

  2. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Ron Cowen

    Lithium Batteries May Help Unravel Mystery of Ancient Papyrus Scrolls (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    Ron Cowen has been a science writer and editor at NIST since 2016. When not working at NIST, he’s a freelance writer specializing in physics and astronomy. In 2019, he authored his first book, a popular-level account of the 100-year struggle to understand the general theory of relativity, Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes. Cowen has written for Scientific American, The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Post, National Geographic and the new

  3. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Chad Boutin

    NIST Finalizes Guidelines on Protecting Online Identity and Access Tokens From Misuse (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    Official websites use .gov A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. Secure .gov websites use HTTPS A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/09/nist-finalizes-guidelines-protecting-online-identity-and-access-tokens When you sign in to an online service like webmail, behind the scenes is often a token — a snippet of in

  4. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Jennifer Huergo

    NIST Awards More Than $30 Million for MEP Centers in 11 States and Puerto Rico (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    Official websites use .gov A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. Secure .gov websites use HTTPS A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/09/nist-awards-more-30-million-mep-centers-11-states-and-puerto-rico GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) h

  5. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Ron Cowen

    NIST-Developed Quantum Sensors Improve Nuclear Monitoring (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    Official websites use .gov A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. Secure .gov websites use HTTPS A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/09/nist-developed-quantum-sensors-improve-nuclear-monitoring To monitor the amount and type of nuclear material at power plants and weapons facilities, scientists look for a spec

Publishing over time

Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.

Recurring subjects

Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.

Audience

Top 500K sites

Measured Aug 1, 2026

Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.

How this was measured

About this data

Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.

Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.

See coverage about NIST News