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A biweekly news digest from the
National Institute of Standards and Technology
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APRIL 22, 2025
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NIST Updates Privacy Framework, Tying It to Recent Cybersecurity Guidelines
The draft update, now aligned with the Cybersecurity Framework, addresses current needs in privacy risk management and makes the document easier to use.
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Champlain Towers South Investigation Team Provides Update to Structural Engineers
The outreach to structural engineering professionals will help ensure that the investigation’s findings and recommendations improve codes, standards and practices that can prevent similar tragedies from occurring in the future.
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NIST’s Curved Neutron Beams Could Deliver Benefits Straight to Industry
Scientists from NIST and other institutions have created the first neutron “Airy beam,” which has unusual capabilities that ordinary neutron beams do not.
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Quantum and Dance: It Takes 2 to Entangle
A NIST researcher reflects on how quantum physics and dancing have both shaped his outlook on life.
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EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS |
Large-scale 3D printing of cement (or “additive construction”) has built momentum as a new way to quickly build homes, drainage and other infrastructure. But this emerging technology needs standards to ensure that it’s safe and effective.
Additive Construction: The Path to Standardization Continues is a unique workshop hosted by NIST that drives the industry forward through open discussion, education and meeting the needs of industry stakeholders. The event will be held Aug. 18-20, 2025. Registration closes Aug. 1.
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MORE NEWS FROM NIST |
Learn how atomic clocks could answer some of science’s most fascinating questions in the newest section of our Atomic Clocks website.
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 Meet Jim Harris, a structural engineering consultant who is working with NIST in the Champlain Towers South investigation. Harris co-leads the investigation’s building and code history project. See more on YouTube.
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For Good Measure
NIST is known for working with industry and other stakeholders to develop consensus-based guidelines for technological issues. As described in this issue, NIST has released a draft update of its Privacy Framework and aligned it with its Cybersecurity Framework, making it easier for them to be used together. To learn more, check out the video on the updated Privacy Framework draft. Public comments on the draft are being accepted until June 13 and can be made through the NIST Privacy Framework website.
—Ben P. Stein, Managing Editor
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