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FISMA Project Manager Named to ISSA Hall of Fame

April 21, 2009

Ron Ross, senior computer scientist and information security researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been named to the...

Two NIST Computer Security Professionals Named to 2009 Federal 100 List

April 21, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Karen Scarfone and Matthew P. Barrett received the 2009 Federal 100 Award. Presented by Federal Computer...

NIST Metrology Day Celebrates Measurements in the Market

April 21, 2009

The next time you shop for frozen seafood, and the price per pound seems enticingly low, make sure that you are really getting a full 16 ounces of fish...

New NIST Guidelines for Organization-Wide Password Management

April 21, 2009

When an employee has so many complex passwords to remember that he keeps them on a sticky note attached to his computer screen, that could be a sign that your...

Scientists Give a Hand(edness) to the Search for Alien Life

April 21, 2009

Visiting aliens may be the stuff of legend, but if a scientific team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is right, we may be...

Gregory Rutter Wins Best Thesis Award for CNST Research

April 16, 2009

Dr. Gregory Rutter, an NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate in the CNST, has won a Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from the Georgia Institute of Technology chapter of...

CNST Research Featured in ACS Nano Perspective

April 16, 2009

In a recent report in the journal ACS Nano,* researchers in the CNST Nanofabrication Research Group and Electron Physics Group reported their success at precise...

CNST's Daniel Pierce Named Outstanding Referee by the APS

April 16, 2009

Dr. Daniel Pierce of the CNST has been cited as an Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society (APS). This lifetime APS award was initiated in 2008 "to...

Photo of NIST physicist Jun Ye with his strontium atomic clock

JILA/NIST Scientists Get a Grip on Colliding Fermions to Enhance Atomic Clock Accuracy

April 16, 2009

BOULDER, Colo.—Physicists have measured and controlled seemingly forbidden collisions between neutral strontium atoms—a class of antisocial atoms known as...

NIST Announces Three-Phase Plan for Smart Grid Standards, Paving Way for More Efficient, Reliable Electricity

April 13, 2009

(See also Vice President Biden Outlines Funding for Smart Grid Initiatives (White House release, 4/16/09)) GAITHERSBURG, Md. – As part of the Obama...

Nano Changes Rise to Macro Importance in a Key Electronics Material

April 7, 2009

By combining the results of a number of powerful techniques for studying material structure at the nanoscale, a team of researchers from the National Institute...

World's First Nanofluidic Device with Complex 3-D Surfaces Built

April 7, 2009

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have capitalized on a process for manufacturing integrated...

X Marks the Spot: Ions Coldly Go Through NIST Trap Junction

April 7, 2009

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new ion trap that enables ions to go through an intersection while...

NIST Issues Open and Transparent Methods for Testing Electronic Voting Systems

April 7, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has opened for public comment detailed new methods for testing future electronic voting systems'...

NIST Awards Contract for Work on Smart Grid Interim Standards

April 7, 2009

As part of the Obama Administration's commitment to moving the nation toward energy independence, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has...

Quantum Computers Will Require Complex Software to Manage Errors

April 7, 2009

Highlighting another challenge to the development of quantum computers, theorists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shown that a...

Vibrationally Robust Fiber Laser Frequency Comb

April 1, 2009

Optical frequency combs have been vigorously developed over the past seven years at NIST and elsewhere. They provide a uniquely broadband and coherent optical...

Overhead view of the NIST-Cornell 3-D nanofluidic device showing the different depth levels within the chamber as horizontal bands.

NIST-Cornell Team Builds World's First Nanofluidic Device with Complex 3-D Surfaces

March 31, 2009

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—Researchers at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have capitalized on a...

NIST Stairwell Evacuation Study Finds 'What We Know We Don't Know'

March 24, 2009

Most of the time, we use the stairs in buildings—especially in high-rise structures—only as a back-up for faster elevators and escalators, but during a fire or...

Flatland Physics Probes Mysteries of Superfluidity

March 24, 2009

If physicists lived in Flatland—the fictional two-dimensional world invented by Edwin Abbott in his 1884 novel—some of their quantum physics experiments would...

Magnetism Governs Properties of Iron-Based Superconductors

March 24, 2009

Though a year has passed since the discovery of a new family of high-temperature superconductors, a viable explanation for the iron-based materials' unusual...

New Program Evaluates Labs for Emergency Communications Tests

March 24, 2009

To help ensure that first responders, public safety officers and military personnel can always talk with each other no matter what communications equipment they...

NIST Research Collaboration Spies Galfenol's Inner Beauty Mark

March 24, 2009

The sonar on submarines may get far more sensitive ears in the near future thanks to a mysterious compound developed by the military. Developed over a decade...

Making a Point: Picoscale Stability in a Room-Temperature AFM

March 24, 2009

Forget dancing angels, a research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado (CU) has shown how to...

April Workshop Takes Aim at Obstacles to Nanotech Energy Technologies

March 10, 2009

Most processes governing the generation, conversion, and transport of energy occur at the nanoscale. Exploring the new measurement and materials'...

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