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A New Harmony: NIST Researchers Develop a Universal Method for Calculating the Resonances of Oscillators

September 15, 2021

The natural, or resonance, frequency at which a simple harmonic oscillator vibrates reveals with exquisite sensitivity the essential properties of the physical...

Draft California Fire Code Includes NIST Tool to Evaluate Wildfire Hazard

September 13, 2021

Severe wildfire disasters are often the product of numerous factors — vegetation, drought, a lack of firefighting resources, and many others — coalescing...

IEEE Brain Podcast Series: Q&A with Dr. Mark Stiles

September 10, 2021

In the September 2021 episode of the IEEE Brain Podcast Series, Mark Stiles, an active member of the IEEE Magnetics Society and a fellow at NIST, shares his...

NIST Smart Grid and Cyber-Physical Systems Newsletter - August 2021

NREL, NIST Validate Way to Localize Faults in an Electrical Distribution Circuit How Interoperability Can Change the Grid: NIST's Avi...

The American Competitiveness Of a More Productive Emerging Tech Economy Act: NIST studies on emerging technologies

In coordination with the Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission, The National Institute of Standards and Technology has...

Department of Commerce Establishes National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee

September 8, 2021

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo today announced that the Commerce Department has established a high-level committee to advise the president and other...

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Workforce development through Federal partnerships

MGI principal investigator meetings convene researchers funded across the Federal government’s MGI portfolio, providing an effective means...

An MGI-powered curriculum

Universities have begun to embed MGI principles into the undergraduate and graduate curricula, although much remains to be done. Modifying...

NIST Smart Grid and Cyber-Physical Systems Newsletter - November 2020

Global City Teams Challenge News NIST Publications Offer Ways to Integrate Simulators with High Level Architecture to Test Internet of...

Using ARES OS™ software to build your own autonomous research robot

Autonomous research systems have the potential to revolutionize the way research is done by using artificial intelligence to drive robotic...

Ensuring reproducibility in the application of artificial intelligence to materials R&D

The Center for Hierarchical Materials Design ( CHiMaD), a NIST Center of Excellence, established the Materials Data Facility ( MDF) to build...

Securing America’s future through rare-earth-free magnets

Magnets are key components in modern technologies including electrical vehicles, wind turbines, medical equipment, cell phones, and...

An MGI approach to new dielectric polymers for wound film capacitors

Energy-dense, easily manufactured, affordable capacitors are essential components for climate-sensitive power distribution. They must also...

Adoption of data tools

Early builders of the MGI Materials Information Infrastructure assembled data on hundreds of thousands to millions of compounds and made...

Materials Innovation Platform: MGI enhanced by infrastructure and knowledge sharing

The National Science Foundation launched the Materials Innovation Platforms (MIPs) program in 2016 to create a new kind of national user...

Consumer Software Labeling Position Papers

NIST requested one- to two-page submissions providing suggestions and feedback on the challenges and practical approaches to consumer...

Integrated research drives the creation of materials knowledge for clean energy

The Department of Energy supports the Materials Information Infrastructure and creation of materials knowledge through integrated research...

DMREF: Accelerating the deployment of toxic gas sensors

A collaborative team from Cornell University, Kent State University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, supported by the NSF Designing...

NISTCHO

A reference material for biomanufacturing innovation and collaboration

Engineering predictable behavior into GaN devices: An approach to accelerating design and optimization

Like the shift from propeller to jet power, gallium nitride (GaN) transistors promise more speed, power, and agility to everything emitting...

MGI Impact Stories

The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) was launched in 2011 among a partnership of federal agencies to accelerate the discovery, design...

Public Health Risks to First Responders

PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances) are synthetic chemicals linked to health and environmental risks, and firefighters may face increased exposure due to

Testing 1-2: New Laser-Based Microphone Calibration Measures Up

September 2, 2021

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have conducted the first demonstration of a faster and more accurate way to calibrate...

Translations of NIST Cybersecurity and Privacy Resources

Go back to the CSF Website Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 French Translation of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework Version 2.0 Translated by...

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International Cybersecurity and Privacy Resources

The cross-border nature of our economies makes it critical that NIST considers the global context when it determines priorities and...

Groundbreaking Technique Yields Important New Details on Silicon, Subatomic Particles and Possible ‘Fifth Force’

September 9, 2021

Using a groundbreaking new technique at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an international collaboration led by NIST researchers has...

NextG Channel Measurement and Modeling

The exponential increase in wireless data transmission from smartphones has led to the saturation of the sub-6 GHz bands forcing providers to explore the use of

IoT Product Criteria

As part of its assignment under the Presidential Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (14028) issued on May 12, 2021...

P. Jonathon Phillips Honored with Career Achievement Award

Dr. P. Jonathon Phillips is a world-renowned expert in computer vision, face recognition, and biometrics and a pioneer in developing competitions to improve these technologies. He began working in face recognition and biometrics in 1993 and joined...

Compliance FAQs: Fastener Quality Act (FQA)

THIS CONTENT LAST UPDATED 11/15/2019. (NOTE: CONTENT MAY NOT BE THE MOST CURRENT.) What is the Fastener Quality Act? What types of fasteners...

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