The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a pair of reports that provide guidance for strengthening wildfire preparedness across the United States, including specific ...

A free interactive online training program for fire fighters and arson investigators that features fire research, video footage and expert analysis from the National Institute of Standards and ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched an investigation into the tragic fire of Feb. 20, 2003, at The Station nightclub in West Warwick, R.I. The work is being ...

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Fire Research Lab get paid to send stuff up in flames. As they closely observe the mechanics of fire with special cameras, they work ...

The U.S. Army uses NIST's PROFISSY computer program to help understand the performance and calculate the maximum charging pressure for this automatic fire extinguishing system, which protects the crew ...

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) engineers recently released a two-disk DVD set that demonstrates how Positive Pressure Ventilation (PPV), a technique in which powerful fans force ...

Crews battle the Caldor Fire in September 2021. (CAL FIRE photo) Severe wildfire disasters are often the product of numerous factors — vegetation, drought, a lack of firefighting resources, and many ...

National Institute of Standards and Technology effort uses machine learning to identify telltale sound of lithium-ion batteries hitting flash point. Two NIST researchers say they have trained a ...