Salespeople are getting older. Buyers are getting younger. You have a disconnect.

In raw terms, the average age of a professional business-to-business (B2B) salesperson in the United States is 47.1 years old. Fifteen years ago that number was 42. So, the sales profession is graying. Meanwhile, the average age of a B2B purchasing agent right now is 36. In fact, according to a…

Imagine what life would be like without GPS, something you use all the time without thinking about where it came from.

NIST’s atomic clock research helped bring us GPS, which has had more than $1 trillion dollars in economic impact.

This is just one of the many scientific breakthroughs to come out of NIST, which has an annual budget of only $1.5 billion. As a business…

A common lithium salt has revealed new possibilities for manufacturing cheaper, longer-lasting battery materials.

The discovery centers on sublimation, a commonly known process whereby, under the right conditions, a solid turns directly into a vapor. Sublimation is what creates the tail of a comet as it flies by the sun. As the comet’s icy shell heats up, the ice instantly…