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Knowing When Poultry Goes Foul

April 13, 2010

Mom's trusty nose may be good, but researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have gone her one better by designing an instrument

NIST engineer Sae Woo Nam working on a photo detector

NIST Detector Counts Photons With 99 Percent Efficiency

April 13, 2010

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed the world's most efficient single photon detector, which is able to count

FISMA Project Manager Ron Ross Named to 2010 Federal 100 List

April 13, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Ron Ross has received the 2010 Federal 100 Award. Presented by Federal Computer Week, the award

Lloyd Whitman Wins NRL Edison Award for Nanotechnology Patent

April 12, 2010

Lloyd Whitman, the Deputy Director of the CNST, has won a Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Edison Award for U.S. Patent 7,541,062, "Thermal Control of Deposition

Diagram of an airbrush technique to create spray-on transistors

Paintable Electronics? NIST Studies Spray-On Manufacturing of Transistors

March 30, 2010

A multidisciplinary research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has found that an organic semiconductor may be a viable candidate

A quantum-mechanics-based simulation demonstrates how a new NIST instrument can delicately pull a chain of atoms apart.

NIST Researchers Holding Steady in an Atomic-Scale Tug-of-War

March 30, 2010

How hard do you have to pull on a single atom of--let's say--gold to detach it from the end of a chain of like atoms?* It's a measure of the astonishing

This atomic-force microscopy image shows wrinkling in a single-wall carbon nanotube membrane; the inset shows an optical reflection micrograph of the membrane without any strain.

NIST Scientists Address 'Wrinkles' in Transparent Film Development

March 30, 2010

A closer look at a promising nanotube coating that might one day improve solar cells has turned up a few unexpected wrinkles, according to new research

NIST Racetrack Ion Trap is a Contender in Quantum Computing Quest

March 30, 2010

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built and tested a device for trapping electrically charged atoms (ions) that

Good Times! Get to Know Your Radio-Controlled Clock

March 30, 2010

"How accurate is a radio-controlled clock?" National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researcher Michael Lombardi asks and answers the question in a

Smoke Alarms + Sprinklers + Closed Doors = Lives Saved in Dorm Fires

March 30, 2010

Experimenting on a university dormitory that was scheduled to be torn down, fire researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have

Health Information Security Conference to Run May 11-12 in D.C.

March 30, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is co-hosting a conference to explore the current health information technology security landscape and

EEEL Sponsors INTEL VP's Visit to NIST

March 23, 2010

Dr. Michael C. Mayberry, Vice President of the Technology and Manufacturing Group and Director of Components Research at INTEL Corporation, visited NIST in

NCNR Researchers Win Prizes in Neutron Scattering

March 16, 2010

The Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA) has honored scientists working at NIST with two of its three major annual prizes for 2010, and named another a

NIST Engineer Serving on Chilean Quake Research Team

March 16, 2010

Jeffrey Dragovich, a research structural engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has been deployed to Chile as a member of a

March Workshop at NIST to Focus on Preserving Our Digital Data

March 16, 2010

Experts on digital preservation are gathering at a workshop at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md., from March 29 to

NIST, Partners Develop Testing Infrastructure for Health IT Systems

March 16, 2010

Fully incorporating modern information technology into the healthcare system promises many benefits, including better quality care, less paperwork and fewer

Layered Graphene Sheets Could Solve Hydrogen Storage Issues

March 16, 2010

Graphene—carbon formed into sheets a single atom thick—now appears to be a promising base material for capturing hydrogen, according to recent research at the

Photo of NIST team conducting wireless communication tests in Denver

Call Forwarding: New NIST Procedure Could Speed Cell Phone Testing

March 2, 2010

By accurately re-creating the jumbled wireless signal environment of a city business district in a special indoor test facility, researchers at the National

Role-Based Training for IT Security Is the Topic of March Educators' Conference

March 2, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Federal Information Systems Security Educators' Association (FISSEA) are co-hosting FISSEA's

Mouse Work: New Insights on a Fundamental DNA Repair Mechanism

March 2, 2010

Adding a new link to our understanding of the complex chain of chemistry that keeps living cells alive, a team of researchers from the University of Vermont

NIST, NASA Launch Joint Effort to Develop New Climate Satellites

March 2, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have launched a joint effort to gather

First Test Labs for Next-Generation Internet Protocol (IPv6) Are Accredited

March 2, 2010

The first two laboratories have recently completed accreditation to provide testing services for the USGv6 Program. The USGv6 Program, developed at the National

NIST Releases Guide for Applying the Risk Management Framework to Federal Information Systems

March 2, 2010

The final publication of the Guide for Applying the Risk Management Framework to Federal Information Systems: A Security Life Cycle Approach (NIST Special

Comments Requested on Draft Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6

March 2, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting public comment on draft guidelines for network engineers and administrators for the

Robert Rudnitsky Elected Chair of OECD Working Party on Nanotechnology

February 22, 2010

Robert Rudnitsky has been elected chair of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Working Party on Nanotechnology (WPN). The election

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