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Man with dark hair, light blue shirt and laser safety glasses on the left is using his left hand to touch a device on the middle level of a three-level table covered with optics and other black and silver equipment

Adam Kaufman in lab

JILA/NIST physicist Adam Kaufman adjusts the setup for a laser that controls and cools the strontium atoms in the optical tweezer clock. The atoms are trapped individually by 10 tweezers — laser light focused into tiny spots — inside the square orange container behind Kaufman’s hand.

Credit: J. Burrus/NIST
Woman in safety goggles handles an instrument with a thin metal tube at the end.

Megan Harries with PLOT-cryo #2

The PLOT-cryo device can be used to detect very low concentrations of airborne chemicals such as those that might signal the presence of spoiled food, clandestine graves, and chemicals in fire debris that might show evidence of arson.

Credit: Courtesy of Megan Harries
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A small particle against a porous background.
Abraded EFTE particle
An illustration of a small particle is placed next to an illustration of polystyrene spheres.
Particle does NOT equal sphere.
individual fluorescent molecules
individual fluorescent molecules
Nine blue spheres lined up on a horizontal mesh structure curved up at the ends. Double-headed black arrows below all but the center sphere suggest vibration. Pink and white striped background.
Illustration of vibrating ions
Illustration of the 4-step manufacturing process with blockchain involvement
Illustration: Blockchain in Manufacturing
Rulers of light shining on individual buckyballs
Quantum States of Buckyballs
cover of draft green paper
Cover of Return on Investment Initiative for Unleashing American Innovation
Man holding a NIST on a Chip device
Jim Olthoff with NOAC
computerized image of a bearded face shown from several angles
Facial Recognition Illustration
6 people standing on a stage in front of a screen that reads: 26th CGPM
U.S. Delegation to CGPM SI Redefinition Vote
Woman in large indoor hallway standing next to tall stack of electronic equipment.
Antenna robot
Two firefighters look over the last flames inside a compartment where the flammability of cross-laminated timber buildings is being tested.
NIST Firefighters at End of Cross-Laminated Timbers Fire Test
NIST-on-a-Chip lab setup
NIST-on-a-Chip lab setup
kilograms under glass jars
Kilograms at NIST
illustration. gray disk. green rods come up from the disk.
Nanowires on a Lithium Solid-State Battery
Astronaut aboard the International Space Station is seen preparing a carousel holding samples of materials for a smoke detection test.
Astronaut Prepares Samples for Microgravity Smoke Detection Test
Handing bending experimental material
Experimental Material: 30% tunicate
image of ion trap
Ion Trap
BMF Interior
BMF Interior
animated gif showing superposition by using skateboarders.
Quantum Physics & Superposition (Illustration)
LED mapper
LED mapper
EBSD map of the same cross section shown in Figure 7.  The black line shows the location of the melt pool boundary.
Figure 8
NIST-4 Watt Balance
NIST-4 Watt Balance
NIST Stone Test Wall mortar work
NIST Stone Test Wall mortar
Davina Pruitt-Mentle discussing cyber career options at a table of young women.
NICE Cool Cyber Careers for Girls Event
H-terminated Si surface.
H-terminated Si surface.
Researcher Brandon Lane making adjustments inside the large 3D printer
Additive Manufacturing Metrology Testbed
Researcher Erica Stein pipetting under chemical hood
Erica Stein pipetting
Carbon nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes
Magdalena Navarro and Bill Gadzuk with the Chart of the Radionuclides
Magdalena Navarro and Bill Gadzuk with the Chart of the Radionuclides
NIST Josephson voltage chip
NIST Josephson voltage chip
A man in a hardhat standing on top of the million-pound weight stack with a person standing at the bottom.
Riggers on Million-Pound Weight Stack
A photo of NIST researcher John Sieber in his lab.
John Sieber, concrete SRM process
A graph with vertical lines showing the mass spectrum of fentanyl
Mass Spectrum of Fentanyl
graphene chips
graphene chips
NIST researcher David Leibrandt
David Leibrandt and Quantum Logic Clock

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