Top science stories of 2015, as featured in news media lists, feature NIST. Instances include coverage by Chemical and Engineering News' Chemistry Year In Review of NIST's Willie E. May becoming U.S. government’s top chemist on May 4 upon Senate confirmation as 15th NIST director. Other coverage related to NIST's confirmation of "spooky action at a distance" and similar experiments as well as NIST and collaborators using nanoparticles and heat to attack cancer tumors.