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'Hard Rock' Standard Reference Material Makes Identifying Chemicals in Mine Waste Easier

March 20, 2018

Across the American West’s Rocky and Sierra mountains, miners dug for gold, silver, zinc and lead to make their fortunes in the Gold Rush of the 19th and early

Research Performance Progress Report Format and Instructions

The RPPR is used by recipients to submit progress reports to NIST on their grant awards and cooperative agreements. The RPPR instructions...

TESCAN MIRA3 for automated electron microscopy

A TESCAN MIRA3 Schottky field-emission scanning electron microscope with 4 30 mm 2 silicon x-ray drift detectors which has been automated for particle and

Tan and red aircraft carrier in grey colored segment of ocean off Cape Cod, MA, represents ship at sea while red and blue balloons along the coast indicate wireless users.

NIST Helps Facilitate First-Ever Spectrum Sharing Between Military and Commercial Wireless Users

March 22, 2018

For the past three years, an important broker has had its eyes on a prime piece of property that it wants to allocate to multiple tenants to ensure maximum use

NSCI Seminar: What is the Role of Architecture and Software Researchers in Making Quantum Computing Practical?

Tue, May 8 2018

In the past 3-5 years, Quantum Computing (QC) has reached an interesting and important inflection point. For decades

A Standard for Standards

March 19, 2018

A new NIST standard ensures reliably accurate comparisons of measurements of the purity of tens of thousands of organic materials used throughout the world—in

Sticking Together

January 16, 2018

NIST helps to ensure the strength of buildings, bridges, roadways, and other critical structures all over the world. The Material Measurement Lab at NIST makes

Standards for Microbiome Measurements Workshop

Tue, Aug 9 2016

This workshop will seek input on defining reference materials, reference data and reference methods for human microbiome

Active Control of Scattering in Solar Cells and Smart Windows

Tue, Mar 27 2018, 10:30 - 11:30am EDT

In this talk, I will discuss experimental characterization, theoretical modeling, and device applications for light

NSCI Seminar: Bio-inspired Computing With Nanodevices

Fri, Apr 20 2018

Artificial neural networks are performing tasks, such as image recognition and classification, that were thought only

NIST Releases Special Publication 500-325, Fog Computing Conceptual Model

March 16, 2018

NIST released Special Publication 500-325, Fog Computing Conceptual Model, a report that presents the conceptual models of fog and mist computing and how they

Absolute quantitation of mRNA molecules in bacterial cells

Methods for Absolute Quantitation of Transcription

Measurements of the performance of engineered organisms are typically not reproducible or comparable across different laboratories. So, to enable meaningful

Release of Public Draft of Guidelines on Cyber Resiliency Considerations To Be Announced at Third Billington International Cybersecurity Summit

Wed, Mar 21 2018

Join Mark Kneidinger, Director, Federal Network Resilience, Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS); Charles Romine, Director

Unusual Suspects

March 16, 2018

NIST contributes to public safety with materials that increase the confidence of first responders to detect biothreats in the field. NIST’s Material Measurement

Tailoring Resistive Switches for Applications in Artificial Intelligence and Beyond

Mon, Mar 19 2018, 3:00 - 4:00pm EDT

Building artificial neuronal networks that mimic their biological counterparts is one of the remaining grand challenges

Model Behavior

March 15, 2018

NIST is helping additive manufacturing, often referred to as 3D printing, mature from a potentially disruptive technology into a widespread industrial

NIST Living Measurement Systems Foundry

The goal of the NIST Living Measurement Systems Foundry is to enable the engineering of cells for reliable and safe use in dynamic and unpredictable

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NIST and Florida International University Join Forces on Cybersecurity Education Outreach

April 4, 2018

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a cooperative agreement with Florida

In this illustration, a gas well field has a circle on it. A dual-comb spectrometer at the center sends out laser light which bounces off mirrors, goes through a gas cloud and returns to the spectrometer for analysis.

Mobile ‘Dual-Comb’ Device Significantly Improves Methane Leak Detection

March 22, 2018

Accurately detecting, locating and quantifying leaks of methane, the main component of natural gas and a major fuel source worldwide, is critically important

Comparison of Future Realizations of the Kilogram - Final Report

March 15, 2018

The Pilot Study — read 2016 article details — was completed in late 2016 and the Final Report was published on the BIPM website in June of 2017. The main

Computational Simulations of Molecular Junctions and Antifouling of Membrane Surfaces

Thu, Mar 29 2018, 10:30 - 11:30am EDT

Understanding the structural and dynamic behaviors of complex metal-organic junctions is one of the long-standing

Eric Simmon Receives INCITS Service Award

Congratulations to Eric Simmon for receiving the INCITS Service Award. Eric Simmon is recognized for his outstanding service to the INCITS

Apprenticeships in Cybersecurity Community of Interest

Focus This Community of Interest is a forum for anyone who is interested in sharing and learning how apprenticeships work in cybersecurity...

NIST Information Technology (IT) Security Day, Gaithersburg

Thu, Mar 29 2018

NIST is hosting its annual Information Technology (IT) Security Day as a means to heighten internal user awareness of IT

The Genuine Article

May 20, 2017

NIST accelerates the transformation of laboratory discoveries into new therapies and commercial products by assuring the quality of measurements in biomedical

Named Data Networking Community Meeting 2018

Wed, Sep 19 - Thu, Sep 20 2018

Named Data Networking Community Meeting 2018 will be hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

MS Windows Registry Tools

MS Windows Registry Tools Specs Windows Registry Forensic Tool Specification Draft 2 of Version 1.0 for Public Comment - June 2018 Windows...

NIST Detector "Chirps" to Sense Gases

It's a bird, it's a plane, no - it's a gas! Trace gas detection, the ability to detect a scant quantity of a particular molecule—a whiff of...

About BBD

OUR MISSION To foster innovation and build confidence in quantitative biology and biomaterial measurements across government and industry in support of the bioeconomy.

OSAC Releases an Online Lexicon for the Forensic Sciences

March 13, 2018

The forensic sciences encompass dozens of disciplines, each with its own history and vocabulary. As a result, a word might mean one thing to forensic

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