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Boulder

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Isotope Metrology

Stable and radioactive isotope analysis is an important interdisciplinary tool used by numerous scientists. Therefore, achieving reliable metrology and
CTIM

Measuring Sunlight from Space, on a Chip

For 40 years, people have used space-based sensors to measure the amount of light coming from the Sun, which gives scientists insight into climate change on

Election Security

Latest Releases Overview The security of our nation’s elections is important for several reasons, including to ensure voters have the...

Accessibility and Human Factors

Latest Releases Usability and Accessibility of Electronic Pollbooks Part 1: Usability in the Polling Place Usability and Accessibility of...

Open RAN Research at NIST

Next-generation Radio Access Networks (RANs) are characterized by the disaggregation of the network elements and the use of intelligent controllers to manage

Wireless Coexistence

This project aims to develop new modeling and measurement techniques of wireless coexistence systems to support the efficient use of the radio frequency (RF)
5 green boxes around a blue circle with arrows pointing clockwise from box to box. Inside the boxes starting at the top and going clockwise are the words in white: Research & Development; New Test, Method, Instrument; Developmental Validation; Internal Verification; Routine Use. And in the blue circle in white it reads: RMs & Interlabs

Quality Assurance

Goal: To explore laboratory challenges and improve laboratory comparability, providing insight into method comparability and improved...
The top box says current workflow below is a picture of a sample bag with the words hair sample and an arrow then to a box with test tubes and the words protein extraction under them. An arrow from that photo with blue lines on paper showing the electrophoresis results of the separated proteins and the words SDS-Page. An arrow from SDS-Page points to a photo of a liquid chromatography mass spec machine and the letters under the photo LC-MS/MS. From here an arrow points up to a picture of a graph of results

Trace

Goal: To develop measurement characterization tools, methods, and algorithms to improve the accurate identification and analysis of small...