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Standing Up for Scientific Integrity: A Q&A With Writer-Director José Ricardo García on the New Film ‘The AD-X2 Controversy’

December 7, 2023

… about this.” Once we interviewed the Astin family, we had a lot more information, but we knew we didn’t want it to be one-sided. At that …

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4 Places Weights and Measures Help You Get What You Pay For

February 23, 2023

Katrice Lippa

… NIST makes sure those inspectors are equipped with the right information they need to do their jobs. Here’s how to know you’re …

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The Pioneering Life of Programmer Ethel Marden

March 22, 2016

Richard Wilkinson

… Information technology …

New Music Captures NIST’s Essence, Measure for Measure

February 3, 2026

… have their own areas of expertise, but they collaborate and share information. That’s what NIST does; they partner with government …

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Protecting People From Plumbing Pathogens Is Personal to Me

July 20, 2023

Alshae’ Logan-Jackson

… How do you know if your test results will give you the best possible information? Here’s one approach. Scientists take a substance that is …

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Up, Up and Away: How NIST Research Helped Improve Weather Balloon Forecasting

August 23, 2023

… and balloon fall back to the ground. While weather balloon information is important in forecasting, it’s also vital to other …

NIST physicist Elizabeth Donley and Compact Atomic Clock

Keeping Time at NIST

June 18, 2020

Mark Esser

… accuracy and precision of the clock. The first clock to use this new technology, NIST-F1, called a fountain clock, was put into service in …

Chemist Savelas Rabb is bent over slightly, using a tool to check on the settings inside of a large instrument known as a mass spectrometer.

Defining Ourselves Through Science

February 27, 2019

Savelas Rabb

… to my later employment at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). As a chemist in the Inorganic Measurement Science …

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Taking a Seat at the Periodic Table

February 7, 2017

Michael E. Newman

… Finally, while my agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has yet to be recognized with a “nistium” or …

Jeffrey Fong poses smiling in front of a railing overlooking a concrete dam.

My Journey From Designing Dams to Helping Structures Live Their Longest Lives

August 2, 2022

Jeffrey T. Fong

… modeling, computational mathematics, nondestructive sensor technology, composites, fracture mechanics and many other scientific …

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Is Your Qubit Better Than My Qubit?

January 21, 2021

Corey Rae McRae

… Quantum Processing Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and Josh Mutus, a research scientist at Google. It is … Information technology … Quantum information science …

Building a Firearms Toolmark Database

July 22, 2016

Xiaoyu Alan Zheng

… Information technology …

Historical photo shows Henry Moseley sitting at a desk reading a thick book, with other open books on the desk.

Henry Moseley: A Patriotic Scientist Who Changed the Periodic Table — and Then Went Off to War

January 18, 2024

Miral Dizdaroglu

… Laboratory page . The author used the following sources for information for this blog post: Henry G.J. Moseley and Charles G. … 1971. Isaac Asimov, Asimov’s Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Anchor Books, Doubleday & Company Inc., New York, 1972. John …

Jack Glover poses outside on the NIST campus, holding a flat square object with holes of varying sizes.

Science-Backed Standards Keep You Safer in the Skies

September 25, 2025

Megan King

… worked on with the TSA and DHS’s Standards Branch at the Science and Technology Directorate . For more than 20 years, NIST experts have used …

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What’s in a Name? The Magnetic Weber

October 1, 2024

Sandy Ressler

… test performance, people’s heights and other population-type information. Not to be outdone by his friend Willy, Gauss also has a …

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Unidentified Museum Objects V

May 9, 2019

Jason Stoughton

… glass tube manometers installed in my newly rebuilt system. For more information on this now identified museum object, check out the NIST …

Ryan Falkenstein-Smith and Amy Mensch, both wearing lab coats and gloves, stand in the lab next to a black camera-like device on a table.

The Sound of Soot: How a Strange Noise Can Keep Us Safer From Fires

February 26, 2024

Amy Mensch, Ryan Falkenstein-Smith

… dangerous. Many people’s lives depend on fire safety knowledge and technology. Ryan leads our work in using AI to make firefighting …

Ida Rhodes and the Problem with ‘Water Goats’

March 16, 2016

Katie Rapp

… own “water goats” to contend with, that we now have a whole world of information at our fingertips. We can reach across the globe and chat … Information technology …

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Under Pressure: Blaise Pascal, the Barometer and Bike Tires

May 23, 2023

Sandy Ressler

… hundreds of years, Pascal is still part of everyday math, science and technology — and even tire air pressure measurements. So, think of him … Information technology …

NIST biomedical engineer Laurie Locascio places a water sample on a highly sensitive, inexpensive "lab-on-a-chip"

One of NIST’s Most Prolific Inventors Is Also Our Director — and She’s Still an Inventor at Heart

May 16, 2024

… attractant. Javier spun off a company based on these patents. The technology looks for the presence of bacteria in food. That was also a … Technology transfer …

Woman with safety glasses and purple gloves working in lab. In her left hand she has a device with a tube attached to it. The tube is running into a small vial. In her right hand she holds a coiled tube leading from the vial.

Chemical Detective Hot on the Vapor Trail

April 20, 2016

Tara Lovestead

Today in Taking Measure we asked Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) recipient Tara Lovestead a few questions about her life and work. Tara was recognized for her extensive application of new methods to rapidly and inexpensively detect trace levels of chemicals in

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Reflections on Growing Up Gay and the Solace of Science

June 26, 2019

Wyatt Vreeland

… postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and ultimately a staff position, where I now have an …

A neon sign that reads Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas is lit up in neon in front of a sunset scene.

When Neon Was New: How NIST Researchers Helped America Discover the Iconic Neon Sign

March 23, 2023

While it’s now largely faded into history, NIST researchers helped America discover the wonders of the neon sign.

Melissa Phillips, wearing safety glasses, poses leaning over an open chest freezer, holding a plastic bag of spinach.

Organic, Vegetarian or Carnivore: Whatever You Eat, My Lab Is Working to Keep It Safe

April 24, 2023

Melissa Phillips

… approaches to eating. (I’m a vegetarian myself.) There’s a lot of bad information out there about ways we should or shouldn’t eat. People say …

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A NanoFabulous Student Research Opportunity

July 5, 2016

Mattie Watson

… spending every day in the beautiful Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology's NanoFab clean room at NIST fabricating new devices and …

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