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Computer simulations showing the mixing of water and isopropyl alcohol in a COMMAND microfluidic device.

NIST, Maryland Researchers COMMAND a Better Class of Liposomes

April 27, 2010

Pop a bubble while washing the dishes and you're likely to release a few drops of water trapped when the soapy sphere formed. A few years ago, researchers at

Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security

Tue, May 11 - Wed, May 12 2010

The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) enforces the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which protects the privacy of individually

moiré patterns created by overlaid sheets of graphene to determine how the lattices of the individual sheets were stacked in relation to one another and to find subtle strains in the regions of bulges or wrinkles in the sheets.

Seeing Moiré in Graphene

April 27, 2010

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated that atomic scale moiré

New Study Helps Explain the Surprising Behavior of Tiny 'Artificial Muscles'

April 27, 2010

Using neutron beams and atomic-force microscopes, a team of university researchers working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may

Quest for Excellence Conference

Learn how your organization can achieve outstanding performance. Join us at the premier showcase of Baldrige Award recipients March 29–April 1, 2026 (Sunday–Wednesday), Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, Baltimore MD. Official Conference of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, brought to you by

two researchers in front of CT scanner with box of polymer ellipsoids

To Improve Lung Cancer Diagnosis, Good Medicine Is a Polymer Pill

April 27, 2010

Doctors may soon be able to diagnose lung cancer more effectively thanks to research performed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Graphic depicting how the ice fishing method determines the distance across a membrane nanopore.

Lollipops and Ice Fishing: Molecular Rulers Used to Probe Nanopores

April 27, 2010

Using a pair of exotic techniques including a molecular-scale version of ice fishing, a team of researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and

Proprietary Fingerprint Template Evaluations (PFT) Overview

Proprietary Fingerprint Template evaluations assess the accuracy of end-stage fingerprint matchers. These are the computationally-expensive algorithms used in

Slap Fingerprint Segmentation Evaluation (Slapseg) Overview

NIST has conducted two separate slap fingerprint segmentation evaluations to assess the state of the art in fingerprint segmentation technology.

During a fire safety experiment, a firefighter ventilates the building to let smoke and heat out to improve conditions inside.

Landmark Residential Fire Study Shows How Crew Sizes and Arrival Times Influence Saving Lives and Property

April 28, 2010

WASHINGTON D.C.— A landmark study issued today by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows that the size of

Integrating Sphere-based Weathering Device

In the artificial ultraviolet (UV) weathering of materials, a need exists for weathering devices that can uniformly illuminate test specimens with a high level

He-3 shortage: Directors' Statement

April 22, 2010

Neutron facility directors met in Grenoble on March 5, 2010 to discuss alternative technologies for neutron detectors. statement

NIST chemists Thomas Bruno and Beverly Smith analyze complex fuel mixtures with the new advanced distillation curve apparatus.

Still More Accurate After All These Years

May 25, 2006

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed an improved method for measuring basic properties of complex fuel

New Reference Materials Support Industrial Zeolites

September 14, 2006

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued three new reference materials to support researchers studying the properties of

2010 TIP Competition Focuses on Manufacturing Technologies

April 15, 2010

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced a new competition for high-risk, high-reward research

Rob Dimeo Appointed NCNR Director

April 16, 2010

Announcement from Pat Gallagher, NIST Director, April 5, 2010 I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Rob Dimeo to the position of Director of the

FISMA Project Manager Ron Ross Named to 2010 Federal 100 List

April 13, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Ron Ross has received the 2010 Federal 100 Award. Presented by Federal Computer Week, the award

New MEP Advisory Board White Paper Assesses the Present and Future of American Manufacturing

April 13, 2010

A new white paper prepared by the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Board discusses the state of domestic manufacturing and the characteristics

Micrograph of four NIST single photon detectors

NIST Photon Detectors Have Record Efficiency

June 2, 2005

Sensors that detect and count single photons, the smallest quantities of light, with 88 percent efficiency have been demonstrated by physicists at the National

NIST engineer Sae Woo Nam working on a photo detector

NIST Detector Counts Photons With 99 Percent Efficiency

April 13, 2010

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed the world's most efficient single photon detector, which is able to count

SI Units

SI Model | Defining Constants | Base and Derived Units | Prefixes | Writing with the SI SI Model Familiarity with the elements and structure...

SI Units – Length

Resources for Students and Teachers | How do I get a metric ruler? | When did the metric redefinition of the inch occur? | League of SI...

SI Units – Time

Resources for Students and Teachers | Coordinated Universal Time | League of SI Superheroes – Professor Second The second (s) is defined by...

SI Units – Temperature

Celsius Temperature Poem | Common Temperature Reference Points | Oven Temperature Equivalences | Temperature Conversion (Exact) | Resources...

Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation (FpVTE) 2003

The results of FpVTE are based on (1-to-Many) fingerprint matching technologies and capabilities from 2003 so they are very dated and should...

Lloyd Whitman Wins NRL Edison Award for Nanotechnology Patent

April 12, 2010

Lloyd Whitman, the Deputy Director of the CNST, has won a Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Edison Award for U.S. Patent 7,541,062, "Thermal Control of Deposition

Summary Report on Federal Laboratory Technology Transfer FY2008

April 30, 2010

Report highlights upward trends in technology transfer activities at 11 federal laboratories Licenses, income bearing licenses, income from licenses, and earned

GOSCON Award

For promoting performance evaluation and benchmarking for robot systems and facilitating innovations in robotics

PFTII Validation Set

PFTII_Validation.zip The Zip file contains a set of 40 sample images. The format of these images is identical (uncompressed 8-bit grayscale)...

Proprietary Fingerprint Template Evaluation II (PFTII) results

SDK code Organization Name Application Date Software Accepted Date Evaluation Completed Date Results 3A...

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