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To Tune Up Your Quantum Computer, Better Call an AI Mechanic

March 31, 2020

A high-end race car engine needs all its components tuned and working together precisely to deliver top-quality performance. The same can be said about the...

Now Open: NICE Conference 2020 Call for Presentations

March 25, 2020

11th ANNUAL NICE CONFERENCE AND EXPO Call for Presentations: Open March 24 – May 31, 2020 The 2020 NICE Conference program committee is seeking timely, topical...

NIST Releases Online Economic Decision Tool to Help Communities Plan for Disaster

March 25, 2020

Preparing a community’s buildings and infrastructure for a hurricane or earthquake can be an incredibly complicated and costly endeavor. A new online tool from...

A fire test of an office building floor replica occurring in a fireproof compartment.

How Fire Causes Office-Building Floors to Collapse

March 24, 2020

Engineers and technicians at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) spent months meticulously recreating the long concrete floors supported...

Supplier Scouting

The U.S. faces supply chain challenges that impact our nation’s security and economic health as well as our well-being and safety. Extensive...

Methods to determine the evolutionary stability of engineered biological function

Evolution poses unique challenges to engineering in living organisms. The successful implementation and development of a sustainable bioeconomy will require

Flow Cytometry Lab

Our experienced staff leverage the latest cytometry technologies to develop innovative flow cytometry measurement solutions, standards, and reference materials

Notice to Contractors, Vendors, and Recipients of Grants and Cooperative Agreements Regarding Status of NIST Campus

March 20, 2020

In support of guidance on the COVID-19 outbreak from Federal, State and local health authorities and the Office of Management and Budget, NIST is now operating...

Appendix

File Variables These are special, read-only keywords maintained by the trajectory engine, which can be used to construct file expressions...

NIST Helps Build Accurate Measurement Infrastructure for 5G Communications

March 18, 2020

As fifth-generation (5G) devices and networks begin to roll out, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is helping to build the crucial...

Siamak Sattar Receives Housner Fellowship

The Housner Fellows Program was developed by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute to recognize promising and motivated young to mid-career professionals with the confidence, skills, and sense of responsibility needed to exercise leadership...

NICE Webinar: The Role of the School Counselor in Promoting Cybersecurity Career Opportunities

Wed, Apr 15 2020, 2:00 - 3:00pm EDT

The PowerPoint slides used during this webinar can be downloaded here. Speakers: Jill Cook Assistant Director, American

Technology Development

BBD leverages unique intellectual and technical resources at NIST as well as our scientist and engineers’ expertise in biometrology to...

Elijah Petersen Receives ACS Chemical Research in Toxicology Award

This award honors the contributions of an early-career individual who has had a major impact on research in chemical toxicology or a related field. Dr. Petersen will submit a Perspective or Review article for publication in Chemical Research in...

Standards for Metagenomics

Metagenomics, or identifying the organisms present in a sample through DNA-based analysis, is a revolutionary technology made possible through advances in

Woman has a copy of the blue catalog book in front of her along with a 2-step plan for dealing with cybersecurity and privacy risk.

NIST Updates and Expands Its Flagship Catalog of Information System Safeguards

March 16, 2020

After your organization forms a general plan for tackling its cybersecurity and privacy risk management issues, it needs particular state-of-the-art tools to...

2020 Lee Osheroff Richardson Science Prize - Sheng Ran

Dr Sheng Ran is recognised for his research on unconventional superconductivity and electronic phases, particularly his seminal contributions to the discovery of exotic and extremely high-field re-entrant superconductivity in uranium ditelluride...

Calibration of a Commercial Rheometer for Orthogonal Superposition Measurement

March 12, 2020

NIST researchers have addressed crucial calibration procedures for an advanced rheological technique that can make measurements on the structural dynamics of...

Divide and Conquer: New Algorithm Examines Crime-Scene Bullets Segment by Segment

March 26, 2020

On the morning of March 22, 1915, residents of the small town of West Shelby, New York, awoke to a horrific scene. A woman clad only in a bloodied nightgown lay...

Reauthorization of the National Institute of Standards and Technology

March 11, 2020

Introduction Madam Chairwoman Stevens, Ranking Member Baird, and members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today before the...

ACMD Seminar: Boundary-degenerate elliptic equations, theory and applications

Brian Weber ShanghaiTech University CANCELLED Tuesday, March 31, 2020, 3:00–4:00 PM Building 101, Lecture Room C Gaithersburg Tuesday, March...

Engineering Biology

SUMMARY Engineering biology (also known as synthetic biology) is the convergence of many disciplines to enable predictive engineering of...

Sunlight shines through solar panel backsheet.

NIST Study Uncovers a Potential Driver of Premature Solar Panel Failures

March 10, 2020

Unlike diamonds, solar panels are not forever. Ultraviolet rays, gusts of wind and heavy rain wear away at them over their lifetime. Manufacturers typically...

ACMD Seminar: Advances in Number-Theoretic Methods for Characterizing and Optimizing Fault-Tolerant Quantum Circuits

Andrew Glaudell Booz Allen Hamilton CANCELLED Thursday, March 26, 2020, 3:00–4:00 PM Building 101, Lecture Room A Gaithersburg Thursday...

Next Generation Metrics for Cell-Based Therapies and Regenerative Medicines

Work Spaces

A107 - Sample Environment Lab B129 - Sample Environment Lab II

Mass Spectrometry Researchers Honored with Gears of Government Award

Revolutionized the ability to identify emerging chemical compounds in complex liquid mixtures through the use of powerful analytical tools and methods. This team’s work is a critical resource for federal, industrial, and academic scientists across...

Allocca and Lin-Gibson Honored with Gears of Government Award

Combined technical, organizational, and standards expertise from more than 125 U.S. biotechnology stakeholders to develop unified biotechnology standards. This team’s leadership and strategic thinking informed the development of international...

Types of AM Benchmarks

Three potentially useful classes of benchmark measurements have been considered but AM-Bench 2018 and 2021 only implement Class 1 benchmarks...

Schedule

Find important dates for AM Bench 2025 in the table below. AM Bench 2025 Schedule Dates Short description of benchmarks and challenge...

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