News published on Federal Newswire in August 2010

News Release: With growing interest in using nanoparticles for everything from antibacterial socks to medical imaging to electronic devices, the need to understand the environmental, health and safety risks of these particles also grows. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have...

Yikes! NIST Sensor Measures Yoctonewton Forces Fast

News Release: Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used a small crystal of ions (electrically charged atoms) to detect forces at the scale of yoctonewtons. Measurements of slight forces-one yoctonewton is equivalent to the weight of a single copper atom on Earth-can be useful in force microscopy, nanoscale science, and tests of fundamental physics theories.

Micro Rheometer is Latest Lab On a Chip Device

News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a microminiaturized device that can make complex viscosity measurements-critical data for a wide variety of fields dealing with things that have to flow-on sample sizes as small as a few nanoliters. Currently a...

Seashore to Close in Advance of Hurricane Earl

News Release: Harkers Island, NC - Superintendent Russel J. Wilson announced that the Cape Lookout National Seashore staff has implemented its hurricane evacuation plan due to the approach of Hurricane Earl.

Washington Metro Region Nanotechnology Partnership Forum at NIST

News Release: On Sept. 13, 2010, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Federal Laboratory Consortium, the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) and the Montgomery County Department of Economic Development will co-sponsor a nanotechnology forum on NIST's Gaithersburg, Md., campus.

NPS Visitor Centers, Campgrounds and Beach Closures as of Aug. 31, 2010, 2:00 p.m. (Manteo)

News Release: The National Weather Service is predicting that the effects of Hurricane Earl will impact the Outer Banks Group units, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and Wright Brothers National Memorial, by Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010 with storm conditions continuing through Friday, Sept. 3, 2010.

NPS Visitor Centers, Campgrounds and Beach Closures as of Aug. 31, 2010, 2:00 p.m. (Manteo)

News Release: The National Weather Service is predicting that the effects of Hurricane Earl will impact the Outer Banks Group units, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and Wright Brothers National Memorial, by Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010 with storm conditions continuing through Friday, Sept. 3, 2010.

Annual IT Security Automation Conference Runs Sept. 27-29

News Release: The Sixth Annual IT Security Automation Conference, co-hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), focuses on applying and integrating emerging cyber security automation technologies and software assurance into a wide range of application areas such as cloud computing, health care information technology and compliance. The conference will be held Sept. 27-29, 2010, at the Baltimore Convention Center.

New "Ornamental Edibles" Exhibit Added to Arboretum

By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2010

News Release: A new exhibit that will tickle visitors' taste buds has been added this year at the U.S. Department of Agriculture 's (USDA) U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, D.C.

Glasperlenspiel: NIST Scientists Propose New Test for Gravity

News Release: A new experiment proposed* by physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may allow researchers to test the effects of gravity with unprecedented precision at very short distances-a scale at which exotic new details of gravity's behavior may be detectable.

NIST Researchers Create 'Quantum Cats' Made of Light

News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created "quantum cats" made of photons (particles of light), boosting prospects for manipulating light in new ways to enhance precision measurements as well as computing and communications based on quantum physics.

New Material May Reveal Inner Workings of Hi-temp Superconductors

News Release: Measurements taken* at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may help physicists develop a clearer understanding of high-temperature superconductors, whose behavior remains in many ways mysterious decades after their discovery. A new copper-based compound exhibits properties never before seen in a superconductor and could be a step toward solving part of the mystery.

Incidents This Past Weekend in Rocky Mountain National Park

News Release: On Friday, Aug. 27, at 2:23 p.m. park rangers received a cell phone call regarding a 50 year-old male hiker (hometown unknown) with an ankle injury near the Trough on the Keyhole Route of Longs Peak. The hiker's son was requesting assistance. Two park rangers left the Longs Peak Trailhead and met the...

Readout of Secretary Napolitano's Visit to Mississippi

By Homeland Newswire | Aug 30, 2010

News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Gulfport — Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today traveled to Mississippi with Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Deputy Administrator Richard Serino to mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane ...

Progress in Implementing New Security Measures Along the Southwest Border

By Homeland Newswire | Aug 30, 2010

News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Washington, D.C. - U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced today that Predator Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) flights will begin out of Corpus Christi, Texas, beginning on Wednesday, Sept.1. ...

Justice Department Seeks to Shut Down Alabama Tax Preparer

News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has asked a federal court to permanently bar a Birmingham, Ala., man from preparing federal tax returns for customers, the Justice Department announced today. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Birmingham, alleges that Douglas E. Dent fabricates large tax withholdings ...

South Florida Doctor, Clinic Owner and Five Nurses Plead Guilty in Home Health Care Fraud Scheme

News Release: WASHINGTON – A medical doctor, a clinic owner and four nurses, all South Florida residents, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Adalberto Jordan in U.S. District Court in Miami for their participation in a fraudulent Medicare home health care scheme, the Departments of Justice and Health ...

Four Promoters of Tax Defiance Scheme Sentenced to Prison

News Release: WASHINGTON- Four promoters of a Florida-based business that sold illegal tax defiance schemes, American Rights Litigators/Guiding Light of God Ministries (ARL), were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. All ...

Justice Department Files a Lawsuit Alleging Immigration-Related Employment Discrimination by Arizona Community Colleges System