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Associate Director for Laboratory Programs

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January Workshop to Focus on Safeguarding Health Care Information

January 8, 2008

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in conjunction with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is sponsoring a one-day

Workshop to Focus on Standards Education

January 8, 2008

Representatives of standards making bodies, corporate officials and educators from around the world will meet Feb. 21-22, 2008, at the "Global Perspectives and

NIST Reference Materials Are 'Gold Standard' for Bio-Nanotech Research

January 8, 2008

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued its first reference standards for nanoscale particles targeted for the biomedical research

This time code generator, built by NIST staff,

NIST Helps Beam Time to TV Viewers in the Middle East

December 12, 2007

Millions of satellite television and radio users in North Africa and the Middle East can now see and hear the precise time of day, thanks to technical

New Accreditation Program for Body Armor Testing Laboratories

December 12, 2007

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in cooperation with the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), has established a new accreditation

NIST technician putting bolts into the map encasement

NIST Encasement Now Protecting 'America's Birth Certificate'

December 12, 2007

A hermetically sealed glass and aluminum encasement built by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will protect the first world map to label

'Combinatorial' Approach Squashes Software Bugs Faster, Cheaper

December 12, 2007

A team of computer scientists and mathematicians from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Texas, Arlington is

NIST Imaging System Maps Nanomechanical Properties

December 12, 2007

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed an imaging system that quickly maps the mechanical properties of materials—how stiff or

New Paper Reveals Nanoscale Details of Photolithography Process

December 12, 2007

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made the first direct measurements of the infinitesimal expansion and collapse of

NIST Helps Preserve the 500-year-old Waldseemüller Map

December 7, 2007

A hermetically sealed glass and aluminum encasement built by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will protect the first world map to label

Photo of the front of a truck cab that has been instrumented for NIST tests of collision warning systems.

NIST Measures Performance of Auto Crash Warning Systems

November 27, 2007

Engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed and tested a laser-based ranging system to assess the performance of

NIST Announces First Observation of 'Persistent Flow' in a Gas

November 27, 2007

Using laser light to stir an ultracold gas of atoms, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Joint Quantum Institute

Optical micrographs of contact damage in silicon from cyclic stress showing progressive damage

Job-Related Stress: NIST Demonstrates Fatigue Effects in Silicon

November 27, 2007

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a mechanical fatigue process that eventually leads to cracks and

Electron micrograph of a NIST-grown nanowire with a high "quality factor" vibrating more than 1 million times per second.

'High Q' NIST Nanowires May be Practical Oscillators

November 27, 2007

Nanowires grown at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have a mechanical "quality factor" at least 10 times higher than reported values

Bug-Zapper: A Dose of Radiation May Help Knock Out Malaria

November 8, 2007

How are physicists helping an effort to eradicate malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than one million people every year? Researchers at the

Photograph of the NIST micro microwave oven

Micro Microwave Does Pinpoint Cooking for Miniaturized Labs

November 8, 2007

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and George Mason University have demonstrated what is probably the world's smallest

New Scoring System Protects Credit Card Transactions

November 8, 2007

As this year's holiday season approaches, your credit card transactions may be a little more secure thanks to standards adopted by the payment card industry

NIST Posts Online Database of Cryogenic Materials Properties

November 8, 2007

In response to numerous inquiries from academia, industry, and other government labs, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently

NIST Issues Call for a New 'Hash' Algorithm

November 8, 2007

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has opened a competition to develop a new cryptographic "hash" algorithm, a tool that converts a file

Illustration of NIST's new mini-magnetometer

New NIST Mini-Sensor May Have Biomedical and Security Applications

November 1, 2007

Boulder, Colo. – A tiny sensor that can detect magnetic field changes as small as 70 femtoteslas—equivalent to the brain waves of a person daydreaming—has been

NIST Physicist Honored for Measuring Forces between Ultra-cool Atoms

October 25, 2007

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has named NIST physicist Paul D. Lett as one of its new fellows. AAAS cites Lett for his work in

Researchers John Roberts and Oliver Slattery using the tactile graphic display device

NIST Licenses Systems to Help the Blind 'See' Images

October 25, 2007

A recently completed licensing agreement for two novel National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) technologies may help bring affordable graphic

NIST Staff Honored in 2007 Presidential Rank Awards

October 25, 2007

Four members of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) staff have been honored in the 2007 Presidential Rank Awards. The awards recognize

Elevators Seen as Playing Hi-Rise Fire Evacuation Role

October 25, 2007

"In case of fire use the stairs, not the elevator"—appears on signs posted in elevator lobbies throughout the United States. In the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001

New SRM Allows Accurate Accounting of Forensic DNA

October 25, 2007

Thanks to the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a method for making multiple copies of DNA fragments, even tiny bits of biological evidence (in the form of hair

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