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What Were They Drinking? Researchers Investigate Radioactive Crock Pots

January 12, 2010

Radioactive toothpaste, suppositories, makeup: Would-be inventors seeking to capitalize on the discovery of radioactivity in the late 19th century produced a...

NIST Scientists Quantify Nanoparticle-Protein Interactions

January 12, 2010

A research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has quantified the interaction of gold nanoparticles with important proteins found...

Writing with SI (Metric System) Units

A benefit of the International System of Units (SI) is that written technical information is effectively communicated, overcoming the...

European Union (EU) Metric Directive

The EU Metric Directive (80/181/EEC), that was scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2010, has been modified to allow the continuation...

Packaging and Labeling

The Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA) and other Federal laws and regulations govern the labeling requirements for most consumer...

Metric (SI) Prefixes

Prefixes | Common metric prefixes and the relationship with their place values | Prefix Progress FAQ: How do I pronounce the prefix giga? |...

Metric Kitchen

Welcome to the NIST Metric Kitchen! The most frequent measurements made in the home are those used for cooking and baking. Recipe Gallery |...

Metric in Sports: Winter Games Fast Facts

Metric in Sports

Athletic competition provides an outstanding opportunity to observe metric system measurements in action. International System of Units (SI)...

NIST Third Interoperability Week April 28-May 2

April 1, 2008

For manufacturing engineers and linguists "interoperability" and "ontology" go together like horse and carriage—"you can't have one without the other." The...

New Report Outlines Research Roadmap for Biomanufacturing

April 1, 2008

On-line process tools, improved sensor calibration and analytical and data analysis methods are among the technological challenges facing the biomanufacturing...

Michael D. Schroeder to Receive NIST/NSA Security Award

April 1, 2008

Michael D. Schroeder, a pioneer researcher in computer security, will be presented with the 2008 National Computer Systems Security Award by the National...

Infographic showing four areas of increasing security in a facility (unrestricted, controlled, limited, and exclusion) and recommended authentication methods for passing through access points that separate them

New NIST Publication Recommends Best Fits Between Federal 'Locks' and 'Keys'

April 1, 2008

Federal agencies have begun issuing a secure form of government-wide ID known as the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card, mandated in 2004 by Homeland...

Graph from the EtherNet/IP Performance Test Tool

Software Tackles Production Line Machine 'Cyclic Jitters'

April 1, 2008

Electronic commands passed from machine to machine over data networks increasingly drive today's precisely timed and sequenced manufacturing production lines...

Illustration of wireless fingerprint identification technology

NIST Shows On-card Fingerprint Match Is Secure, Speedy

April 1, 2008

A fingerprint identification technology for use in Personal Identification Verification (PIV) cards that offers improved protection from identity theft meets...

More Solid than Solid: A Potential Hydrogen-Storage Compound

April 1, 2008

One of the key engineering challenges to building a clean, efficient, hydrogen-powered car is how to design the fuel tank. Storing enough raw hydrogen for a...

Failure of Tiny Rivets May Have Sunk 'Unsinkable' Liner

February 17, 1998

When the remains of the RMS Titanic were discovered more than two miles beneath the surface of the North Atlantic in 1985, the story of the great liner once...

Metal Detectives: New Book Details Titanic Investigation

April 15, 2008

In February 1998, Timothy Foecke, a metallurgist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), published a rather low-key "interagency report"...

Technology Grants Program to Offer Webcast Series

April 15, 2008

The new Technology Innovation Program (TIP) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is launching a series of webcasts to inform interested parties...

Comments Requested on Risk Management Publication

April 15, 2008

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the second public draft of NIST Special Publication 800-39, Managing Risk from...

Comments Requested on Draft Earthquake Hazards Plan

April 15, 2008

Earthquakes cannot be prevented, but their impacts on life, property and the economy can and should be managed. That's the challenge that Congress has given the...

Figure 1. Class of optical setup considered in this work. The aperture can be limiting (as shown in this case) or nonlimiting.

Diffraction effects in radiometry

We want to quantify the breakdown of geometrical optics when computing the throughput of optical systems for the purpose of calculating "diffraction corrections

Mathematics of Metrology: Foundations and Applications

We are developing fundamental mathematical methods and analytical tools necessary for NIST to continue as a world-class metrology institute, and applying them

NIST's World Trade Center Investigation

September 8, 2006

(9/8/2006, ARCHIVE, incorporated into 9/19/2011 update) What is NIST? The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the Commerce...

Commerce's NIST Details Federal Investigation of World Trade Center Collapse

August 21, 2002

More information on the investigation is available at http://wtc.nist.gov. The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today...

Researchers Say 'Frustrated Magnets' Hint at Broader Organizing Principle in Nature

August 22, 2002

When "frustrated" by their arrangement, magnetic atoms surrender their individuality, stop competing with their neighbors and then practice a group version of...

NIST SBIR Manufacturing Related Emphasis

Manufacturing-related R&D Emphasis in SBIR Executive Order (E.O.) 13329 requires Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) agencies, to...

Autonomous Robots Journal, Special Issue

January 14, 2010

Autonomous Robots Volume 27, Number 4, November 2009 Special Issue: Characterizing Mobile Robot Localization and Mapping Guest Editors: Raj Madhavan, Chris...

How Cold! New Partnership to Use Chilled Neutrons to Solve Cell Membrane Puzzles

February 19, 2002

Cell membrane researchers are eagerly bracing for a long-awaited cold wave. A new partnership involving the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST...

Foundations of Measurement Science for Information Systems

There are no metrics today which can accurately assess the reliability of large-scale information systems either before or after deployment. In this program, we

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