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Opioid Detection and Identification

NIST, the nation’s reference lab for chemical measurements, helps crime labs and medical first responders rapidly detect and identify opioids, particularly new

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) recently released the HL7 Version 2.6 Implementation Guide: Vital Records Birth and Fetal Death Reporting, Release 1 STU Release 2 - US Realm

February 23, 2018

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) recently released the HL7 Version 2.6 Implementation Guide

Movable Silicon ‘Lenses’ Enable Neutrons to See New Range of Details Inside Objects

March 12, 2018

You can’t see well without lenses that can focus, whether those lenses are in your eye or the microscope you peer through. An innovative new way to focus beams

2018 SPIE Fellow - Dr. Leonard Hanssen

For achievements in infrared optical property measurement and standards.

Comments received on Draft SP2000-02: Conformity Assessment Considerations for Federal Agencies

American Council of Independent Laboratories (ACIL) ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB) International Federation of Inspection...

Comments received on Draft SP2000-01: ABC’s of Conformity Assessment

American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) American Council of Independent Laboratories (ACIL) Advanced Medical Technology...

Simulation and Machine Learning in Robotics

Tue, Apr 17 2018

Rationale: The premise of this workshop is that modeling and simulation (M&S) plays an increasingly important role in

2018 Atomistic Simulations for Industrial Needs Workshop

Wed, Aug 1 - Fri, Aug 3 2018

This workshop is designed to facilitate interactions between researchers in industry, government, and academia to

Webcast: Cybersecurity Framework Version 1.1 Overview

Fri, Apr 27 2018, 12:00am EDT

The Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Presentation (Updated 5/3/2018) PDF Format PPT

New Hardware Logics and their Application to Security and Learning

Tue, Mar 13 2018, 11:30am - 12:00pm EDT

Have you ever stopped to think about the fact that today nearly every internet search made, post liked, computer game

A Manufacturing Tour of America's Craft Beer Industry

From the Island of Kaua’i, Hawaii ( Kauai Island Brewing Co., just up the road from NIST’s Time & Frequency Transmitting Station), to Bar...

A graph with vertical lines showing the mass spectrum of fentanyl

Free Software Can Help Spot New Forms of Fentanyl and Other Illegal Drugs

March 7, 2018

Fentanyl, the synthetic drug that is driving a nationwide overdose epidemic, is not only a killer. It’s also a shape shifter. Illicit chemists are constantly

NIST Releases, for Public Comment, The Final Draft of Assessing Security Requirements for Controlled Unclassified Information (NIST SP 800-171A)

February 20, 2018

NIST released, for public comment, the final draft of Assessing Security Requirements for Controlled Unclassified Information (NIST SP 800-171A), a publication

NIST Releases Evaluation of Cloud Computing Services Based on NIST SP 800-145 (NIST SP 500-322)

February 23, 2018

NIST releases Evaluation of Cloud Computing Services Based on NIST SP 800-145 (NIST SP 500-322), a report that provides clarification for (1) qualifying a given

Controlling Ionic Transport in RRAM for Neuromorphic Computing Applications

Fri, Mar 16 2018, 10:30 - 11:30am EDT

Rapid advances of modern electronics based on device scaling are approaching fundamental limits and face severe power

NanoFab Tool: Heidelberg MLA150 Maskless Aligner

The MLA150 has been specifically designed for direct-wafer writing and easy operation. It offers all the capabilities that are required for single layer and

NanoFab Tool: Mercury Probe

The Four Dimensions CV92A mercury probe system provides non-destructive and rapid measurement of current-voltage and capacitance-voltage curves to derive

Biomaterials for Oral Health

Our goal is to enable the development and manufacturing of biomaterials for oral health moving forward in 21st century by providing critical measurement methods

2018 ACS PMSE Fellow

Congratulations to Chris Stafford (Functional Polymers Group) for being selected as a Fellow of the Polymeric Materials: Science and

Premise Plumbing Systems for High-Performance Buildings

Premise plumbing systems provide an essential building service, but their design and operation need to be modernized as existing plumbing technology has lagged

MML Researchers Win Journal of Materials Science Cahn Prize for Best Paper of 2017

The work is available at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10853-017-1355-4

Making Smokestack Emissions Tests Better, Faster, Cheaper

February 27, 2018

Smokestacks at coal-fired power plants have sensors that continuously monitor their emissions by measuring the flow of gases such as carbon dioxide, mercury

NanoFab Tool: CEE Apogee Spinner

The CEE Apogee is a resist spinner system. The tool is used to uniformly apply photoresist on substrates ranging from 200 mm diameter wafers down to small

ACMD Seminar: Conservation of Information in Proteins, Software, Music, Texts, the Universe and Chocolate boxes

Dr. Les Hatton Emeritus Professor of Forensic Software Engineering, Kingston University Tuesday, March 6, 2018, 15:30 - 16:30 Building...

NIST Sharpens the 'Charpy' Test to Make a More Precise Impact on Industrial Materials

February 26, 2018

A decade before an iceberg shattered the hull plates of the Titanic and half a century before a plague of brittle fractures started sinking Liberty ships during

Material Analysis Using Neutron Depth Profiling

Light elements such as helium, lithium, boron, and nitrogen are essential constituents in materials that enable energy technologies; lithium ion batteries

A close-up view of cells that have been labelled with fluorophores in blue, green, red and orange to highlight composition.

CHO and Tell

February 22, 2018

Although few people realize it, modern medicine relies heavily on the ovarian cells of Chinese hamsters, not as a direct cure, but rather as a way to engineer

Advanced Fire Modeling

Advanced Fire Modeling lays the research foundation for engineered fire safety in commercial and residential buildings and within wildland-urban interface

Asia Robertson of NIST’s Fabrication Technology Office makes final adjustments on an encasement.

NIST Expertise Helps Protect Historical Documents at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

February 21, 2018

This month, two seminal documents in American history—the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment to the Constitution— went on display at the

2018 Applications for the Standards Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) plans to award funding for cooperative agreements for curricula development that will educate students

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