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CT Standards Save Time and Money
Release Date: 06/05/2013 Larry Hudson with NIST-fabricated examples of test artifacts called out by the new CT image quality standard for security applications. Click … more
Shaking Up Biomolecules with Light
Release Date: 09/28/2012 PML scientist Zeeshan Ahmed lowers a sample into the instrument chamber for analysis. In living organisms, biomolecules such as proteins are … more
New Detector Design Improves Gamma-rays Measurements
Release Date: 04/06/2012 The newly designed ionization chambers, in two sizes. In the pursuit of precision measurements, nothing is simple, even when the … more
NIST Physicists Chip Away at Mystery of Antimatter Imbalance
Release Date: 11/08/2011 Why there is stuff in the universe—more properly, why there is an imbalance between matter and antimatter—is one of the … more
Sharpened Focus: Improving the Numbers, Utility of Medical Imaging
Release Date: 04/12/2011 The idea of probing the body's interior with radiation stretches back to experiments with X rays in the 1800s, but more than a century later, … more
Bug-Zapper: A Dose of Radiation May Help Knock Out Malaria
Release Date: 11/08/2007 How are physicists helping an effort to eradicate malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than one million people every year? … more
Einstein Was Right (Again): Experiments Confirm that E= mc2
Release Date: 12/21/2005 An instrument called GAMS4, originally designed and built at NIST and now located at Institut Laue Langevin in France, was used in experiments … more
Meeting on New Technologies and Radiation Measurements
Release Date: 09/23/2005 The impact of new technologies on radiation measurements and standards will be the focus of the 14th annual conference of the Council on Ionizing … more
Predicting the Lifetime of Extreme UV Optics
Release Date: 07/13/2005 Extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) may be the next-generation patterning technique used to produce smaller and faster microchips with feature … more |
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