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Staying Chill, Even When Disaster Strikes

The Road to the Revised SI

(Video) What is time?

The History and Future of Quantum Information

News and Updates

NIST Researchers Boost Intensity of Nanowire LEDs

March 21, 2019

Nanowire gurus at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made ultraviolet light-emitting diodes...

Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Schemes Using Integer Factorization Cryptography: NIST SP 800-56B Rev. 2

March 21, 2019

Many U.S. Government information technology systems rely on strong cryptographic schemes to protect the integrity and...

Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Lengths: NIST SP 800-131A Rev. 2

March 21, 2019

NIST has long provided cryptographic key management guidance to encourage appropriate key management procedures, use...

New MEP Center Will Serve the Needs of Alaska’s Small and Medium-sized Manufacturers

March 15, 2019

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a total of $2.5...

Events

Access to Assured and Accurate Time II: Assuredness of Reference Architectures

March 25, 2019

NIST and MITRE, with funding from DHS S&T, have been working towards the development of a Conformance Framework applicable to the question of providing the...

5560: NIST Handbook 133 - Checking the Net Contents of Packaged Goods - Basic

April 01, 2019 to April 04, 2019

This 4 day seminar will focus on the requirements and basic test procedures for packages labeled by weight. This will include, but not be limited to, a review...

CIRMS 2019 Annual Meeting

April 08, 2019 to April 10, 2019

The 27th Annual Meeting of the Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements and Standards will focus on Strengthening the Economy and Homeland Security with...

5569: Mass Metrology Seminar - Reschedule

April 08, 2019 to April 18, 2019

The Mass Metrology Seminar is a 2 week, "hands-on" seminar. It incorporates approximately 30 percent lectures and 70 percent demonstrations and laboratory work...

Awards

Joint EL-MML Paper Receives Editor’s Choice Award

Since 1991, Measurement Science and Technology (MST) has awarded a Best Paper prize. The Editorial Board of this journal believe that such...

Jason Fox Receives Best Oral Presentation Award

In recognition of his strong academic accomplishment in a field related to additive manufacturing, with attention paid to determinism (i.e...

Brian Weiss is awarded the 2018 PHM Contributor of the Year

Recognition for significant, sustained contributions to the PHM Society by an individual or a group. Example contributions are: outreach,...

Brian Weiss Receives MVP Award - Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2016

The PHM2016 Most Valuable Player award recognizes the individual(s) who have made exceptional contributions to the planning, organization,...

Taking Measure Blog

Chasing Paper: Adventures in Fiber Analysis

Growing up in New Orleans, Louisiana, I had no scientific aspirations as a child. I do remember being entertained by science, relishing public television programs such as Newton’s Apple, Bill Nye the...

Genome in a Bottle: Spelling Out DNA’s ‘Dark’ Sequences

When the Human Genome Project began 20 years ago, its consortium of researchers from 20 institutes spent more than $1 billion over 10 years to sequence that first genome’s billions of bases. Recently...

Defining Ourselves Through Science

A few months ago, in November 2018, I experienced one of the most significant moments in my scientific career—the international ceremony ratifying the redefinition of the kilogram, mole and two other...

Press Coverage

Fingerprints are more than just patterns; they’re chemical identities

Chemical and Engineering News

March 10, 2019

Learn more about Jessica Staymates ' work to capture fingerprints for chemical analysis.

How Your Dog's Nose Knows So Much

KQED

February 26, 2019

NIST's Matthew Staymates describes his work to improve drug and explosives detection by studying the physics of dog...

Controls let genomics experimenters drive with a dashboard

Nature Methods

January 02, 2019

The NIST-funded Joint Initiative for Metrology in Biology contributes to standards and controls for genomic studies.

Materials Science May Be the Most Important Technology of the Next Decade. Here's Why

Inc.

December 01, 2018

Jim Warren, director of the Materials Genome Program at NIST, on new efficiencies in material discovery afforded by...

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