Cambridge, Massachusetts - Since she was a little girl launching air-pressure rockets in her back yard in Houston, Texas, Neerja Aggarwal knew that she loved math and science. “I was always up to something,” the electrical engineering major recalls.

Cambridge, Massachusetts - Tennessee has abundant hardwood forests, and business sectors related to them thrived for many years. Yet the state’s employment levels in the flooring, furniture-making, and cabinetry industries have cratered - down by 72 percent, 50 percent, and 50 percent, respectively, from 2005 to 2009.

Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce the extension of the Memorandum of Understanding Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Colombia Concerning the Imposition of Import Restrictions on Archaeological Materials from the Pre-Columbian Cultures and Certain Ecclesiastical Material from the Colonial Period of Colombia (“the MOU”), effective March 15, 2016, for a period of five years. The agreement will enhance opportunities for cultural, educational, and scientific exchange.

Arctic Ocean - Two Los Angeles-class submarines arrived at U.S. Navy Ice Camp Sargo, a temporary station on top of a floating ice sheet in the Arctic, March 14, as part of Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2016.

Washington, DC - U.S. government nanotechnology researchers have demonstrated a new window to view what are now mostly clandestine operations occurring in soggy, inhospitable realms of the nanoworld-technologically and medically important processes that occur at boundaries between liquids and solids, such as in batteries or along cell membranes.

Washington, DC - As the number of employees who telework trends upward—and new kinds of devices are used in telework—the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is updating its guidance to include the latest technology available to strengthen an organization’s remote-access data security.