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NIST Tornado Reports Urge New Standards for Saving Lives, Property

December 3, 2013

Nationally accepted standards for building design and construction, public shelters and emergency communications can significantly reduce deaths and the steep...

NIST Readies Tests for DARPA Robotics Challenge in December

December 3, 2013

'Twill be nearly the night before Christmas, but at Florida's Homestead-Miami Speedway many a robotic creature will be stirring, while visions of a $2 million...

MEP Awards Grants to Help Manufacturers "Make it in America"

December 3, 2013

The Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) has awarded a total of $3.75 million in Make it in America grants to 10 MEP centers in nine states. The 3...

Three NIST IT Staff Named To Top 15 "Forward-Thinking People in Government IT" List

December 3, 2013

Three employees in the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) were chosen as among top "forward-thinking...

$25 Million NIST Award Represents Major Milestone for the Materials Genome Initiative

December 3, 2013

Officials at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today an award of $25 million over five years to a Chicago-based consortium...

NIST Announces New Center for Materials Research to Advance Manufacturing and Innovation

December 3, 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that it has selected a consortium led by Northwestern University to establish a new...

Workshop: Measurement Challenges and Opportunities in Developing Smart Grid Testbeds

Thu, Mar 13 - Fri, Mar 14 2014

To achieve the full potential of the evolving smart grid, industry, academia, and government laboratories are developing

Three NIST Researchers Receive Flemming Awards

June 8, 2007

Three scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) were among the eight federal employees who received the Arthur S. Flemming Award...

Building Retrofits Reduce Chem/Bio Hazards Risks

June 8, 2007

A new report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) offers building owners and...

Fluorescent Glass SRMs Are New Tool for Spectroscopy

June 8, 2007

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed two new calibration tools to help correct and validate the performance...

Computer Guide May Boost Security Testing Efficiency

June 8, 2007

Providing strong security for complex federal information systems is a challenging job. But now there's a new version of a draft guide for assessing the...

An urban search and rescue robot moves across a rubble pile

Rescue Robot Tests To Offer Responders High-Tech Help

June 8, 2007

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) engineers are organizing the fourth in a series of Response Robot Evaluation Exercises for urban search...

8M Combo Torch & 3B-B Air/Gas Torch

The surface bench torch uses a combination of propane and oxygen. The surface bench torch comes standard with a swivel ball mounting on a stable, cast steel U

Scale-Model Smokestack To Study GHG Emissions Monitoring

August 15, 2014

Construction is nearly complete on one of the world's more unusual precision measurement facilities: A 50 meter horizontal smokestack located on NIST's...

Sartorius CPA223S Balance

Last calibration date: 10/23/2019 Please see manual.

NIST Investigation of Joplin, Mo., Tornado Details Proposed Measures for Saving Lives and Property

November 21, 2013

JOPLIN, Mo.—Nationally accepted standards for building design and construction, public shelters and emergency communications can significantly reduce deaths and...

Robert G. Fangmeyer, Director Baldrige Performance Excellence Program Photo

Fangmeyer Named New Baldrige Program Director

November 20, 2013

Robert (Bob) Fangmeyer, deputy director of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (BPEP) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has...

Comments on Updated Guidance for Role-Based IT Security Training for Federal Employees Requested by Nov. 30

November 20, 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting comments on its updated draft publication on information technology and cybersecurity...

NIST to Announce Results of Study of 2011 Joplin, Mo., Tornado Disaster

November 19, 2013

On May 22, 2011, a massive tornado struck Joplin, Mo., destroying some 8,000 structures in its path and killing 161 people. It was the single deadliest tornado...

Controllable Mode Competition in a Phonon Laser

November 19, 2013

Using a novel realization of a "phonon laser," scientists at PML and the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have observed and learned to control a process called...

Press Briefing Webcast: Joplin Tornado Investigation Draft Report Released for Public Comment

Thu, Nov 21 2013

Read News Release >> This webcast will introduce the Draft Joplin Tornado Investigation Report. On May 22, 2011, a

The NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology Develops and Deploys New NanoFab Management System

November 18, 2013

The Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST), NIST's nanotechnology user facility, has deployed a new laboratory equipment management system which it...

i-vector Machine Learning Challenge

Speaker Recognition i-Vector Machine Learning Challenge NIST began coordinating a special i-vector challenge in late 2013 based on data used...

CNST Releases the Fall 2013 Edition of The CNST News

November 14, 2013

The NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) is pleased to announce the release of the Fall 2013 edition of The CNST News. This quarterly...

Public Comment Requested for Manufacturing Network's Suggested Metrics, IP Guidelines

November 14, 2013

The federal interagency Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office (AMNPO) has issued for public comment draft performance metrics and intellectual-property...

Three U.S. Organizations Honored with the 2013 Baldrige National Quality Award

November 13, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker today announced that three U.S. organizations will receive the 2013 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality...

Building with Crystals of Light and Quantum Matter: From clocks to computers

Fri, May 30 2014

Understanding the behavior of interacting electrons in solids or liquids is at the heart of modern quantum science and

A Measure of Improbable Research

Fri, Apr 25 2014

Dung beetles finding their way home via the Milky Way. Calculating the forces acting on a ponytail. Preventing patients

Theoretical Physics and the Phenomena of Life: How Much Can We Calculate?

Wed, Jan 15 2014

Whether we are looking up at a flock of birds, coherent yet fluid as they move the sky, or peering through a microscope

Thermopower image of epitaxial graphene. Three distinct indexed regions are marked l, ll, and lll.

Researchers from U.S. and Korea Collaborate on Graphene Research

November 7, 2013

Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) and the Republic of Korea's national metrology institute—the Korea Research...

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