Mark Esser

From 1901 to 2021: Measurements Then and Now

March 3, 2021

A lot has changed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the past 120 years. For one thing, we were known as the National Bureau of

Need Some Good News? NIST’s 2020 Highlights

December 22, 2020

2020 has been a challenging year, but we at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have worked as hard as we can to fulfill our mission for

Keeping Time at NIST

June 23, 2020

Einstein is reported to have once said that time is what a clock measures. Some say that what we experience as time is really our experience of the phenomenon

Charging Ahead: Weights and Measures Week 2020

March 3, 2020

Happy Weights and Measures Week 2020! Weights and Measures Week is celebrated every year from March 1-7 to commemorate President John Adams signing the first U

Top 7 NIST Visuals of 2019

December 17, 2019

Science, while important, is often thought of as, well, kind of dry in the ocular department. The visuals commonly associated with scientific endeavors are

The Tangled Tale of NIST’s Newton Apple Tree

June 26, 2018

Retired West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller, himself the scion of a long and storied family tree, is among those to whom the National Institute of Standards

National Inventor’s Month: You Can Make It If You Try!

May 5, 2016

Depending on whom you ask, May (or August or April, it would be great if someone were to standardize this … we’re going with May) is National Inventor’s Month

Going Nuts over NIST’s Standard Reference Peanut Butter

January 25, 2016

Maintaining a social media account involves keeping track of the many random celebrations that can provide an excuse to post a story that otherwise might not

Taking Measure