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Next Generation Rail Forums Head to Kansas City and Orlando

April 27, 2012

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) will host two forums next month designed to connect...

Creating Usable Electronic Health Records (EHRs): A User-Centered Design Best Practices Workshop

Tue, May 22 2012

Electronic health records (EHRs) have the potential of improving the quality, safety and efficiency of patient care; yet

Commerce Secretary Bryson Presents Baldrige Award to 11 Organizations

April 24, 2012

On April 15, 2012, U.S. Commerce Department Secretary John Bryson presented 11 U.S. organizations with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's...

Imaging Complex Domain Wall Structures in Magnetic Nanostripes

April 18, 2012

Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have used the scanning electron microscopy with...

Graphic of 5 radish plants showing effects of increasing exposure to BPs and NPs

NIST/UMass Study Finds Evidence Nanoparticles May Increase Plant DNA Damage

April 17, 2012

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) have provided the first evidence...

Iris Recognition Report Evaluates 'Needle in Haystack' Search Capability

April 17, 2012

Identifying people by acquiring pictures of their eyes is becoming easier, according to a new report* from the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

X-Ray Probe Finds New Organic Transistors Do Well in Hot Water

April 17, 2012

Materials scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working with an international research team, have helped prove the...

May Workshop Examines Impact of Advanced Imaging Technology on Tissue Engineering Research

April 17, 2012

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in cooperation with the Multi-Agency Tissue Engineering Science (MATES) working group, is sponsoring...

Fifth Annual Health Information Security Conference Runs June 6-7

April 17, 2012

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is co-hosting the fifth annual Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA...

NIST Proposes Update to Digital Signature Standard

April 17, 2012

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced proposed changes to a standard that specifies how to implement digital signatures, which...

NIST Advisory Committee Issues 2011 Annual Report

April 17, 2012

The Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has sent its 2011 annual report to Congress...

NIST Team Receives Commerce Energy and Environmental Stewardship Award

April 17, 2012

A team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has received the 2012 Energy and Environmental Stewardship award from the Department of...

NIST Researchers Receive Early Career Presidential Awards

November 8, 2007

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers Kathryn L. Beers and Joshua C. Bienfang have been awarded the Presidential Early Career Awards...

Photo of the NIST chip-scale magnetometer

Tiny, Atom-based Detector Senses Weak Magnetic Fields

January 5, 2005

A low-power, magnetic sensor about the size of a grain of rice that can detect magnetic field changes as small as 50 picoteslas—a million times weaker than the...

New Scoring System Protects Credit Card Transactions

November 8, 2007

As this year's holiday season approaches, your credit card transactions may be a little more secure thanks to standards adopted by the payment card industry...

Photograph of the NIST micro microwave oven

Micro Microwave Does Pinpoint Cooking for Miniaturized Labs

November 8, 2007

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and George Mason University have demonstrated what is probably the world's smallest...

Bug-Zapper: A Dose of Radiation May Help Knock Out Malaria

November 8, 2007

How are physicists helping an effort to eradicate malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than one million people every year? Researchers at the...

TRECVid Multimedia Event Recounting Evaluation Track

The current year test is MER 2013. When the MED system concludes that a particular multimedia clip contains an instance of particular event...

IREX IV homepage

Jan 24, 2014: The second part of the IREX IV report, titled IREX IV Part 2: Compression Profiles for Iris Image Compression, is now...

New Business Plan, New Funding Help Baldrige Program Move Forward

April 13, 2012

The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (BPEP), managed for 25 years by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in collaboration with the...

Carbon NanoTube Digital Electronics Workshop

Thu, Sep 6 2012

To review and discuss the current status and potential benefits of carbon nanotubes in digital electronic applications

Optical micrographs of contact damage in silicon from cyclic stress showing progressive damage

Job-Related Stress: NIST Demonstrates Fatigue Effects in Silicon

November 27, 2007

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a mechanical fatigue process that eventually leads to cracks and...

Photo of the front of a truck cab that has been instrumented for NIST tests of collision warning systems.

NIST Measures Performance of Auto Crash Warning Systems

November 27, 2007

Engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed and tested a laser-based ranging system to assess the performance of...

Measurement Science and Standards in Forensic Firearms Analysis 2012

Tue, Jul 10 - Wed, Jul 11 2012

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in collaboration with The Association of Firearm and Tool Mark

In-Situ Observations Reveal How Nanoparticle Catalysts Lower Operating Temperatures in Fuel Cells

April 10, 2012

Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and Arizona State University have used environmental transmission electron microscopy...

'Tornadoes' Are Transferred From Light to Sodium Atoms

November 9, 2006

For the first time, tornado-like rotational motions have been transferred from light to atoms in a controlled way at the National Institute of Standards and...

NIST Announces First Observation of 'Persistent Flow' in a Gas

November 27, 2007

Using laser light to stir an ultracold gas of atoms, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Joint Quantum Institute...

NACMA 2012 Annual Workshop and Conference: Meet World Experts on GD&T, Dimensional Measurement Uncertainty, and Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) Accuracy

Mon, Oct 8 - Tue, Oct 9 2012

To contribute to the growth of expertise in coordinate measuring machine technology, improve measurement accuracy and

New Accreditation Program for Body Armor Testing Laboratories

December 12, 2007

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in cooperation with the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), has established a new accreditation...

New Paper Reveals Nanoscale Details of Photolithography Process

December 12, 2007

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made the first direct measurements of the infinitesimal expansion and collapse of...

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