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A Message from the MML Director

November 18, 2016

" A Message from the MML Director" appears in each edition of Material Matters, the quarterly magazine of NIST's Material Measurement Lab. This letter from MML...

A member of a joint NIST-Texas Forest Service study team collects data on a Amarillo, Texas, building damaged by wildfires in February 2011.

North Texas Wildfires Spark Historic Federal-State Collaborative Study

August 2, 2011

Two wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires* earlier this year outside of Amarillo, Texas, destroyed 70 homes, burned more than 25,000 acres of land, and caused...

Big G Redux: Solving the Mystery of a Perplexing Result

November 16, 2016

If you spend time in physics research circles, you may have heard of the big G controversy. The universal constant of gravitation, G – affectionately known as...

Four U.S. Organizations Receive Nation’s Highest Honor for Performance Excellence

November 17, 2016

WASHINGTON—U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker today named four organizations as the 2016 recipients of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the...

False-color satellite image showing the 22-mile track of the tornado that struck Joplin, Mo., on May 22, 2011.

NIST Seeks Help in Understanding Public Response to Joplin Tornado

October 13, 2011

As part of its technical study on the impacts of the devastating May 22, 2011, tornado that struck Joplin, Mo., the National Institute of Standards and...

Closing Tech Gaps Can Fortify Advanced Manufacturing and Save $100 Billion Annually, NIST Studies Say

November 17, 2016

To spur significant innovation and growth in advanced manufacturing, as well as save over $100 billion annually, U.S. industry must rectify currently unmet...

Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) 25th Anniversary Symposium

November 15, 2016

Referenced Speaker

Willie May

Thanks, Ellen. Welcome to everyone here in the auditorium and watching the webcast. I’m happy to be here to celebrate 25 years of TREC and the great progress...

Noise, Temperature, and the New SI

November 15, 2016

NIST has recently made substantial improvements to its Johnson-noise thermometry system, which is playing a vital role in the worldwide effort to determine the...

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Tutorials in Analytical Chemistry

The following videos and corresponding narrated PowerPoint presentations are provided for training and education in chemical metrology. Each presentation

New Cybersecurity Framework “Profile” to Help Ensure Safe Transfer of Hazardous Liquids at Ports

November 10, 2016

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) oversees approximately 800 waterfront facilities that, among other activities, transfer hazardous liquids between marine vessels and...

Speech at Forensics@NIST 2016

November 8, 2016

Referenced Speaker

Willie May

Good morning, everyone. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you here in the auditorium and those of you viewing through our webcast to the fourth annual...

Publication of NISTIR 8157 "BLER Performance Evaluation of LTE Device-to-Device Communications"

November 9, 2016

Abstract Long-Term Evolution (LTE) supporting Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is a featureintroduced in 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) release...

This artist’s conception imagines the proposed ring of atoms as cars on a beltway.

Atomic Beltway Could Solve Problems of Cosmic Gravity

November 14, 2016

When is a traffic jam not a traffic jam? When it's a quantum traffic jam, of course. Only in quantum physics can traffic be standing still and moving at the...

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New NIST Guide Helps Small Businesses Improve Cybersecurity

November 10, 2016

Small-business owners may think that they are too small to be victims of cyber hackers, but Pat Toth knows otherwise. Toth leads outreach efforts to small...

X-ray computed tomography (CT) for medical applications

Current work in x-ray computed tomography centers on diffraction effects in micro CT and computed tomography of integrated circuit interconnects.

Contact Information: Adam Jacoff - Project Leader RobotTestMethods [at] nist.gov (RobotTestMethods[at]nist[dot]gov) (link sends e-mail) Adam.Jacoff [at] nist.gov (Adam[dot]Jacoff[at]nist[dot]gov) (link sends e-mail) 301...

The Parallel Hierarchical Adaptive MultiLevel Project (PHAML)

The PHAML project is to develop new methods and software for the efficient solution of 2D elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) on distributed memory

Digital Video Exchange Standards

Video evidence from Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Digital Video Recording (DVR) systems is a powerful resource for forensic investigations. Industry lacks a

NIST Researchers Use a Standardized Caenorhabditis elegans Toxicity Test to Assess Nanomaterial Toxicity

November 4, 2016

Toxicity assays are an important component in identifying potential health or environmental hazards associated with chemicals. The development of robust...

Forensic Toxicology Testing for Medicolegal Death Investigation Workshop

September 14, 2016 in Gaithersburg, MD NIST, National Institute of Justice, and National Center for Health Statistics recently sponsored a...

NIST MEP to Help Small Manufacturers Engage with Manufacturing Innovation Institutes

April 22, 2016

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will provide up to $7 million in funding for pilot projects to benefit small U.S. manufacturers by...

NIST’s Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board Names New Chair

April 29, 2016

Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Director Willie E. May today announced the...

NIST Releases 2015 Department of Commerce Technology Transfer Report

April 18, 2016

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the Department of Commerce's (DOC) 2015 Technology Transfer Report. The annual report...

For Rechargeable Batteries That Crush the Competition, Crush This Material

April 1, 2016

By chemically modifying and pulverizing a promising group of compounds, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have potentially...

NICE Framework Provides Resource for a Strong Cybersecurity Workforce

November 2, 2016

KANSAS CITY, Mo.—The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST) released a resource that will help U.S. employers more...

Focused MeV Proton Beams for 3D Nano-Lithography, DNA nanofluidics and Nanoimprint lithography: Outlook towards fast fabrication at sub 10 nanometer

Tue, Dec 6 2016, 3:00 - 4:00pm EST

Jeroen A. van Kan Centre for Ion Beam Applications, Department of Physics, National University of Singapore

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