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Tytus Mak sitting at his desk and while colleague Arun Moorthy and he look at a computer screen

Shaping the Future of the NIST Mass Spectral Library

June 9, 2020
Tytus Mak
… things that many of us at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devoted our careers to. And though many of us … make up the individual steps. Processing this overwhelming amount of information, otherwise known as genomics, necessitated a whole new … ‘genes’ While genomics focuses on analyzing the totality of information at the genetic level of an organism, metabolomics focuses …
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When a Manufacturer Asks ‘How Do We Get Smart?’

September 25, 2019
Michael Brundage
… manually analyzed the data, we discovered a treasure trove of hidden information. Hydraulic leaks had occurred more than 40 times in three … “clean base,” “base clean,” or “cleaned base.” After we presented this information to the company's leaders, they realized they had the data … journey. The paper, titled “ Where do we start? Guidance for technology implementation in maintenance management for manufacturing ” …
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Fighting Fire with Fire-Breathing Dragons

June 22, 2016
Sam Manzello
… —but we just call it the Dragon. You can learn more about our Dragon technology by watching the video below.   We use the Dragon to generate … Dragon, which we call the Baby Dragon. The marriage of NIST’s Dragon technology and these experimental facilities is helping us gain new … that other research laboratories worldwide are reproducing our Dragon technology. For example, the Insurance Institute for Business and Home …
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The Romance of Precision Measurement

February 5, 2018
Walter Copan
… without accurate measurement. Advanced measurements enable advances in technology, as well as human performance. Father of modern chemistry … The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and other institutes like it around the world are …
group portrait of the NIST machine shop crew

NIST’s Invention Machine: Making the Perfect Parts

May 30, 2018
Alison Gillespie
… is often slow and takes a large team of people working together. Technology helps move the process along. But in the end, you are still … a mistake on the drawing or wants to adapt the design based on new information, it isn’t always easy to correct problems or make changes … in the shop because “we know 10 years from now, in the future as technology matures, that’s going to be an option and it is going to be …
Scott Glancy, a sandy blonde-haired Caucasian man with blue eyes, standing in his office wearing a black T-shirt that reads "Quantum physics: The Dreams Stuff is Made of

Local Realism, Bell’s Inequality, and T-Shirts: An Entangled Tale

April 26, 2018
Scott Glancy
… wear the T-shirt now. I am a physicist who does research in quantum information theory. One of the things that other physicists love to do … quantum mechanics is now essential for nearly every modern technology. We trust our lives to quantum mechanics every day, in the … of one, leave it in the comments below … Advanced communications … Information technology … Cybersecurity and privacy … Mathematics and …
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20 Years Later: NIST's World Trade Center Investigation and Its Legacy

August 5, 2021
S. Shyam Sunder
… A few weeks later, other National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) leaders and I began briefing policy leaders at the … years after I had joined NIST from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). I embraced this immense new responsibility to help … of the people who worked with NIST, provided photos and other critical information, and gave unstintingly of their time to support and help us …
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What’s a Physicist? My Summer as a Student Intern at NIST

August 26, 2022
Valeria Viteri-Pflucker
… fundamentally shaped my answer to this question. My primary sources of information have been (1) doing physics and (2) meeting physicists. … It should yield higher precision than other current methods, extract information on a wide range of colors in a single measurement, and work … scientist.  Meeting Physicists   With regard to the second source of information, I learned a lot about physics outside of the classroom in …
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Making Fighting Fires in Virtual Reality More Like Real Reality

December 18, 2018
Scott Ledgerwood
… day, so he knew PSCR had a strong interest in communications and technology. We’d talked about the potential of virtual reality and how it could assess the usability of new technology for first responders in a safe, low-cost manner. It’s a very … … Advanced communications … Fire … Fire fighting … Fire modeling … Information technology … Virtual / augmented reality … Public safety … …
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Protecting Businesses and Consumers from Email Scams

October 21, 2016
William "Curt" Barker
… Founded in 2012 as part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the NCCoE is dedicated to improving cybersecurity … After entering your customer ID and password to update your profile information, you close the page thinking you’ve just protected yourself … protect yourself. Together, we can take a bite out of cyber crime. … Information technology … Cybersecurity and privacy … Identity and …
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Human DNA Standard: A Q&A With NIST’s Becky Steffen

July 15, 2019
Becky Steffen
… that forensic scientists would analyze. So it’s physical material plus information about that material that we guarantee is correct. These … that our whole team worked really hard on and is proud of. DNA technology is always changing, with new techniques coming out, and new … investigators solve crimes and keep people safe by providing new information to crime labs that they may not have had access to before. …
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New Jersey’s ‘Radium Girls’ and the NIST-Trained Scientist Who Came to Their Aid

March 7, 2022
Ron Cowen
… in the Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Below is a condensed version of the full story that you can … days on the job, Dorsey had alerted her to the hazards of radium — information not known to the public. He had firsthand knowledge about … independent of her former work with radium. Hughes died in 1988. Information for this blog post came from an article in the  Journal of …
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Laser Focused: How Light Reflections Could Revolutionize 3D Printing of Metals

August 13, 2025
Brian Gutierrez
… before committing to mass production. But 3D-printed metal is a new technology, and the results don’t come out perfectly every time. … of the metal. The pattern of this reflection can give the researchers information about the shape of the liquid metal’s surface. Deisenroth … with an even faster camera, up to 825,000 frames per second.  This technology isn’t quite ready to be used in a commercial 3D printer. The …
NIST Charleston researchers Ashley Boggs-Russell (sitting) and Amanda Moors (standing) work with researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Marine Mammal Foundation to process tissue samples during veterinary assessments of wild bottlenose dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. No dolphins were harmed in this process.

Tracking Hormones on Land and at Sea

September 22, 2020
Ashley Boggs
… and fish, to name a few. At the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), I work on measurement science for endocrinology. … that their bodies weren’t responding correctly. NOAA and NMMF had this information but needed to keep tracking the dolphins to see if they … samples using a remote biopsy dart collection system, but the existing technology was limiting in how many hormones could be measured. The …
Ming Zheng stands outside smiling and holding a model of a nanotube made of a lattice of smaller tubes.

To See Life in a Drop of Blood

July 7, 2022
Ming Zheng
… spanning several orders of magnitude. A blood test provides lots of information to your doctor regarding your physiological state, but a … and other accomplishments, Mijin was recently recognized as one of MIT Technology Review’ s 2022 “Innovators Under 35.”  Turning Science …
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Sizing Up the NIST Cybersecurity Framework

October 31, 2016
Carrie Johnson
… responders and the public rely upon the safe and reliable transfer of information traversing SDN’s network. SDN had a cybersecurity program … team members beyond the usual cast of characters involved in information assurance (IT, network operations, etc.). Participation … a strength they can leverage to boost their resilience. … Information technology … Cybersecurity and privacy … Cybersecurity education and …
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Analyzing the Aftermath of the Twin Towers Aircraft Impacts

August 12, 2021
Steven W. Kirkpatrick
… me, the work we did as part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) World Trade Center (WTC) investigation is one such … team at NIST was supportive of our efforts and had collected all the information needed for the analysis of the tower structures. They … to be overcome, such as getting access to detailed structural design information on the aircraft, modifying the aircraft geometry data …
Brad Sutliff wears safety glasses as he stands in the lab in front of a computer monitor.

From Trash to Cash: How AI and Machine Learning Can Help Make Recycling Less Expensive for Local Governments

May 3, 2024
Bradley Sutliff
… at NIST has been focused on using near-visible infrared light (NIR), a technology that can look at plastics and rapidly tell us what they are. … we show that you can use reflected light to find out almost the same information — much more quickly. And on the recycling line, time is of … too. It’s cool because it demonstrates that we can pull a lot more information out of these light-based measurements if we set things up …
Joannie Chin stands with arms crossed, wearing safety goggles, in front of scientific equipment.

Building in a Changing Climate: A Q&A With NIST’s Joannie Chin

July 26, 2022
… design for future climate events, but because of climate change, that information may not always be relevant. What are some specific research … and what the demographics of that population are. We're capturing information about social vulnerability related to race, ethnicity, … there are a lot of lingering issues. There’s a lot of interesting information to find out about populations that are underserved compared …
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My Memories of John Cahn

April 28, 2016
Dan Shechtman
… the National Medal of Science in 1998 and the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology in 2011 . I first met John Cahn in the late 1960s when he … our department of metallurgy at the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology. Already a famous thermodynamics-of-materials scholar, John …
a bullet inside a small glass vial

How the JFK Assassination Bullets Were Digitally Preserved at NIST

April 13, 2020
Robert M. Thompson
… of the bullets have been made available to researchers. However, the technology was now available for an improved means of dissemination and … surface area we had estimated. As with many plans using cutting-edge technology, the first timeline had to be tossed, and the “few days” … " and the video below.   … Forensic Science … Firearms and toolmarks … Information technology … Visualization research … Materials … Materials …
an opalescent close up of Roman glass. There is a clear semi-circular fracture in the center of the piece.

Ancient Roman Glass, Perceiving Color in LED, 3D Mapping for Public Safety, SRMs in Space: A Sample of Stories From the Social Sphere

May 21, 2020
Riley Wilson
… the social media presence for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) means that I get to share enthusiasm . That’s exactly … lives. Here at NIST, researchers are investigating whether 3D mapping technology could provide that critical situational awareness. Light … a building, or maps for indoor tracking systems. That’s cutting-edge technology to plan for critical circumstances. This SRM Can Take the …
aerial view of the oil tanker Byron D. Benson ablaze after a U-boat attack

The Big Inch: Fueling America’s WWII War Effort

March 23, 2018
Keith Martin
… of Standards (NBS, now called the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST). William Gillum Heltzel (1895-1959) graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1918 and landed his first post-college job that same year …
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