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Science Writer and Public Affairs Specialist 

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To Each Mammal, Its Milk

Milk — it’s what distinguishes mammals from the rest of the animal kingdom. It’s also an incredibly complex substance

Who Was Detective X?

In the gangster era of Prohibition and the Great Depression, a physicist at the National Bureau of Standards, now NIST

Masks Under the Microscope

To understand how something works, it helps to see it up close. A team of researchers took this approach when studying

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NIST Scientific Foundation Reviews

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John M. Butler, Hariharan K. Iyer, Richard A. Press, Melissa Taylor, Peter Vallone, Sheila Willis
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a scientific research agency that works to advance measurement science, standards, and technology
Created May 21, 2019, Updated December 8, 2022