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Advanced Imaging and Flow Cytometry

NIST’s strong expertise in optical methods provides the underpinning for a number of measurement assurance and technology development...

DNA-Encoded Circuits Made Easier, Faster, and More Measurable

April 1, 2016

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston University, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have...

NCSLI Philadelphia Section Meeting

Wed, Apr 13 - Thu, Apr 14 2016

The Philadelphia section will be offering a spring section meeting on April 13 (no charge to attend this meeting) and a

Workshop on Named Data Networking

Tue, May 31 - Wed, Jun 1 2016

A two-day Named Data Networking (NDN) Workshop will take place on the NIST campus in Gaithersburg, MD on May 31-June 1

NIST Releases New Document on its Cryptographic Standards and Guidelines Process

March 31, 2016

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the final version of a document outlining its process for developing cryptographic...

Visualizing Phase Transformations and Light-Matter Interactions with Nanometer-Scale Resolution

Wed, Apr 27 2016

In Pixar's Inside Out, Joy proclaims, "Do you ever look at someone and wonder what's going on inside?" My group asks the

NCSLI New York City Section Meeting

Thu, May 12 2016

The NYC section will be offering a 1-day meeting on May 12 offering four presentations covering various topics

5434: Fundamentals of Metrology

Mon, Feb 13 - Fri, Feb 17 2017

The Fundamentals of Metrology seminar will introduce the participant to the concepts of measurement systems, units

5433: Fundamentals of Metrology

Mon, Feb 6 - Fri, Feb 10 2017

The Fundamentals of Metrology seminar will introduce the participant to the concepts of measurement systems, units

Retail Motor-Fuel Dispensers and Consoles (Short Course)

Mon, May 23 - Thu, May 26 2016

This seminar will teach students how to properly inspect and test Retail Motor-Fuel Dispensers (RMFDs); that is, perform

Neutron Microscope: Waiting for the Lens to Come

March 30, 2016

When the world's first workhorse neutron microscope – currently being designed and built by a collaboration including NIST's Physical Measurement Laboratory...

Improving CD-AFM Measurements from the Tip Down

March 31, 2016

As the sizes of computer chips in electronic devices continue to shrink, traditional measurement tools (e.g., microscopes utilizing visible light) are no longer...

Software Assurance Metrics And Tool Evaluation (SAMATE)

The NIST SAMATE (Software Assurance Metrics And Tool Evaluation) project is dedicated to improving software assurance by developing methods to enable software

Multilingual Circuit: NIST's "Optomechanical Transducer" Links Sound, Light and Radio Waves

March 28, 2016

Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a "piezo-optomechanical circuit" that converts signals among...

Progress Toward Few-Photon-Level Nonlinear Optics for Quantum Applications

Mon, Apr 11 2016

An all-optical architecture for the generation and manipulation of quantum light is highly useful for quantum

Climate-Smart Precision Agriculture

Fri, Apr 8 2016

Our planet is changing rapidly; increasing human population, decreasing prime farmland, increasing pressure on food

Cybersecurity Framework Comments Reveal Views on a Framework Update, Increased Need to Share Best Practices and Expand Awareness

March 24, 2016

Critical-infrastructure leaders and others have provided feedback on the voluntary, federally led Cybersecurity Framework at the invitation of the National...

Assessment of Available Collapse Simulation Methods for Use in Performance-Based Seismic Engineering Project

While it is a key aspect of structural analyses that support current Performance-Based Seismic Engineering (PBSE), "structural collapse" is not clearly defined

Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Liquid-Measuring Systems Training

Mon, Jun 13 - Fri, Jun 17 2016

This five day seminar will teach students how to properly inspect and test LPG metering systems; that is, perform an

NIST, Partners Set Research Agenda for Protecting Firefighters from Harm

March 23, 2016

If there is anything common among the 1.1 million firefighters—both career and volunteer—serving in the United States, it's that at any moment, they may be...

Large Turnout for Funding Opportunity Briefing for DOC-Funded Manufacturing Institutes — Video Available Online

March 18, 2016

On Tuesday, March 8th, 2016, the NIST Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) hosted over 200 participants for a Proposers' Day, where the attendees learned the...

NIST Statement on ASTM Standard E2329-14

March 17, 2016

Since 2013, NIST has partnered with the U.S. Department of Justice to establish improved, more scientifically rigorous methods for collecting, analyzing, and...

New Cohort Selected for Prestigious Baldrige Executive Fellows Program

March 17, 2016

Eighteen executives have been selected to the prestigious Baldrige Executive Fellows Program, the only executive leadership fellowship that provides one-on-one...

Consortium Names NIST's May Top Lab Director, Honors Indoor Air Quality Researchers

March 17, 2016

The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) has named Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and National Institute of...

Amping Antimicrobial Discovery with Automation

March 16, 2016

The antimicrobial arsenal that we count on to save millions of lives each year is alarmingly thin—and these microbes are rapidly evolving resistance to our...

Photonic Thermometry

Photonic Thermometry is a cutting-edge research program at NIST that aims to break the fundamental limitations of electrical resistance-based thermometry and

Images of yeast cells and silver dendrites.

New Microwave Imaging Approach Opens a Nanoscale View on Processes in Liquids

March 15, 2016

U.S. government nanotechnology researchers have demonstrated a new window to view what are now mostly clandestine operations occurring in soggy, inhospitable...

NIST Creates Fundamentally Accurate Quantum Thermometer

March 15, 2016

Better thermometers might be possible as a result of a discovery at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where physicists have found a way...

Cartoon of thief vacuuming info from a computer screen

Attackers Honing In On Teleworkers? How Organizations Can Secure Their Data

March 14, 2016

As the number of employees who telework trends upward—and new kinds of devices are used in telework—the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is...

Smoke swirls around a white smoke detector on a ceiling.

Building Fire Safety Evaluation

Residential fire losses dominate the total fire losses in the U.S. According to a National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) report, residential fires caused

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