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Five at NIST Honored with Flemming Awards
Release Date: 05/14/2013 The Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at The George Washington University has announced that five researchers at the … more
NIST Demonstrates Transfer of Ultraprecise Time Signals over a Wireless Optical Channel
Release Date: 04/30/2013 By bouncing eye-safe laser pulses off a mirror on a hillside, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have … more
Nanomagnet Spin Damping
Release Date: 04/26/2013 Tom Silva (left) and Hans Nembach examine the partially disassembled original H-MOMM set-up. The entire configuration is being re-built to measure … more
In Natural Gas Pipelines, NIST Goes with the Flow
Release Date: 04/19/2013 Aaron Johnson checks an array designed to hold 21 CFVs. The array is inserted into the yellow 8-inch pipeline at left and used to more
Dehmer to Head NIST Physical Measurement Lab
Release Date: 04/19/2013 Dr. Joseph L. Dehmer, a 40-year veteran of federal science research and administration, has been named Director of the Physical Measurement … more
Light Dynamics in a Quantum Dot
Release Date: 04/03/2013 Plots of photon arrival times at each of two detectors show that the emission of only one photon following an excitation pulse is less likely than … more
Don’t Call It Vaporware: Scientists Use Cloud of Atoms as Optical Memory Device
Release Date: 04/03/2013 Talk about storing data in the cloud. Scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the National Institute of Standards and … more
NIST Goes to the End of the Earth for Measurement Science
Release Date: 04/03/2013 NIST Boulder researcher Johannes (Hannes) Hubmayr recently spent several weeks at the South Pole Telescope, where he optimized the performance of … more
MOBY calibration
Release Date: 04/03/2013 Seen from the base of the MOBY spar, researchers work on the the facility. MOBY is deployed in clear waters about 1200 … more
NIST Tests Underscore Potential Hazards of Green Laser Pointers
Release Date: 03/20/2013 Using a low-cost apparatus designed to quickly and accurately measure the properties of handheld laser devices, National Institute of Standards … more
NIST Mechanical Micro-Drum Used as Quantum Memory
Release Date: 03/13/2013 One of the oldest forms of computer memory is back again—but in a 21st century microscopic device designed by physicists at the National … more
Some older radio-controlled clocks may adjust for Daylight Saving Time early
Release Date: 03/09/2013 Due to an unexpected technical issue, some older radio controlled clocks may have made the change to Daylight Saving Time (DST) up to a day … more
Progress in MRI Contrast Agents
Release Date: 03/05/2013 At the center of the cylinder is a microcapillary tube used to study single-particle measurement capability in magnetic more
NIST Quantum Refrigerator Offers Extreme Cooling and Convenience
Release Date: 03/05/2013 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a solid-state refrigerator that uses quantum physics in … more |
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