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A close-up of a virus particle shows spikes protruding from the particle's surface and blobby sugars that cling to the spikes.

New NIST Method Can Better Identify Sneaky Sugars on Viruses’ Spiky Weapons

September 28, 2023

A better picture of the sugars can increase our understanding of how humans get infected by the virus behind COVID-19 and other pathogens.

NIST SP2200-03: An Evolving Regulatory Landscape for Commercial Electric Vehicle Fueling

September 28, 2023

As part of NIST OWM's Special Publication 2200 series on Legal Metrology, NIST SP 2200-03 An Evolving Regulatory Landscape for Commercial Electric Vehicle...

Working Their Thermal MagIC: Digging Into the Details of an Ambitious New ‘Thermometry Camera’

September 26, 2023

Thermometers can do a lot of things: measure the temperature at the center of your perfectly braised chicken or tell you whether to keep your child home from...

ACMD Seminar & Demos: Immersive ParaView

Bill Sherman ACMD, ITL, NIST Monday, November 13, 2023, 3:00-4:00 PM ET (1:00-2:00 PM MT) In person at: Boulder 81-1A116 with VTC to...

Metric Week 2023: Seven Days of SI Fun

September 20, 2023

National Metric Week (October 8 to 14, 2023) is an opportunity to underscore the usefulness of metric system measurements, formally known as the International...

Three images demonstrate types of presentation attacks: a person in heavy appearance-altering makeup, a person holding up a printed photo of another person, and a hand holding up a phone image of another person.

What’s Wrong With This Picture? NIST Face Analysis Program Helps to Find Answers

September 20, 2023

Two NIST evaluation studies will help software better detect photo spoofs and image quality issues.

NICE Webinar: Cultivating Cybersecurity Leaders - The New Cybersecurity Career Ambassador Program

Wed, Oct 18 2023, 2:00 - 3:00pm EDT

The presentation slides are available here. Download the Continuing Education Units form. Provide event feedback here

Polyelectrolyte Solutions and Gels

We engage with leaders in the pharmaceutical, dental, and personal care research sectors that rely on water soluble polymers (polyelectrolytes) to develop new

Imaging the Elusive Skyrmion

September 25, 2023

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with colleagues elsewhere have employed neutron imaging and a reconstruction algorithm...

Read more about Weighing and Scales FAQs

TMMC: Reference Adsorption Isotherms for H2O in Metal-organic Frameworks

Grand-canonical Transition-Matrix Monte Carlo (GC-TMMC) simulations [1, 5-10] of SPC/E H 2O were performed at T = 300 K in two metal-organic...

Single-molecule biosensors

Nanopores offer the potential to study a wide range of protein-related phenomena that includes unfolding kinetics, differences in unfolding pathways, protein

NIST Researchers Develop a Breakthrough COVID-19 Detection Technology

October 2, 2023

“Only connect” is the most famous line in the British novelist E. M. Forster’s writings. Forster was urging the readers of his book Howard’s End to make...

Exciting news! Announcing the 2024 NICE Conference and Expo theme!

September 12, 2023

Announcing Our Conference Theme for this Year "Strengthening Ecosystems: Aligning Stakeholders to Bridge the Cybersecurity Workforce Gap" The NICE Conference...

NIST chip containing a single-photon detector made of superconducting nanowires. Four chips like this were used in the experiment that entangled three photons.

Unity in the Photon Community

September 12, 2023

The creation and detection of single photons (the smallest units of light) has grown in a few decades from an experimental laboratory pursuit to an important...

Two male engineers training on an AI Robot

MEP National Network Workforce Programs, Services and Trainings

September 8, 2023

The Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), a program of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

Time Magazine cover of Top 100 AI Influencers

Time Magazine Recognizes NIST ITL Associate Director of Emerging Technologies, Elham Tabassi, as one of the 100 most influential people in AI

On September 7, 2023, TIME magazine included Tabassi, Associate Director of Emerging Technologies in NIST’s Information Technology Laboratory, on its list of the 100 most influential people in AI. She is cited as among the top leaders, innovators...

Cybersecurity: Challenges and Opportunities for Small Businesses, Field Hearing

August 15, 2023

Referenced Speaker

Kevin Stine

The purpose of the hearing was to discuss the National Institute of Standards and Technology role in helping small businesses to improve their cybersecurity.