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Associate Director for Laboratory Programs

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'Nitty-Gritty' but Vital Data Helps Field Rescue Robots

February 5, 2008

A new ASTM International standard for urban search and rescue robots and components tackles humble logistics problems that, left unsolved, could hamper the use

New Web Site Lists Validated Software Security Tools for Federal IT

February 5, 2008

A new Web site launched by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can help federal information systems managers maintain the security of

Workshop Offers U.S. Industry Access to International R&D Collaborations

February 5, 2008

Companies interested in participating in international advanced manufacturing research and development can learn about new collaboration opportunities offered

Confocal microscope image of a carbon nanotube/polypropylene composite.

Shear Ingenuity: Tweaking the Conductivity of Nanotube Composites

February 5, 2008

One of the immediate applications of carbon nanotubes (CNT) is as an additive to polymers to create electrically conducting plastics—a relatively low CNT

NIST Radio Station WWVH Gets Antenna Makeover

January 23, 2008

Radio station WWVH in Hawaii, operated since 1948 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to broadcast time, frequency and other

March Conference Explores Building Trust on the Internet

January 23, 2008

Establishing trust in Internet transactions is a mutual process between user and service provider. In bank transactions, for example, customers want to be sure

Microscopic beads embedded in a gel surface were used to trace the motion of a gel forming an interface with a liquid.

Videos Extract Mechanical Properties of Liquid-Gel Interfaces

January 23, 2008

Blood coursing through vessels, lubricated cartilage sliding against joints, ink jets splashing on paper—living and nonliving things abound with fluids meeting

JILA Solves Problem of Quantum Dot 'Blinking'

January 23, 2008

Quantum dots—tiny, intense, tunable sources of colorful light—are illuminating new opportunities in biomedical research, cryptography and other fields. But

NIST Helps Heat Pumps 'Go With the Flow' to Boost Output

January 23, 2008

Air-source heat pumps typically deliver 1 1/2 to three times more heating energy to a home than the electric energy they consume. This is possible because heat

NIST Building Facility for Hydrogen Pipeline Testing

January 23, 2008

Efforts to create a "hydrogen economy" to reduce U.S. oil imports will get a boost from a new laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

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Concrete Flow Researchers to Use Argonne Supercomputer

January 23, 2008

The Argonne National Laboratory of the Department of Energy (DoE) announced on Jan. 17, 2008, that a team of researchers at the National Institute of Standards

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

Radioactive 'Understudy' May Aid Medical Imaging, Drug Development

January 8, 2008

Broadway stars have understudies. Now, an increasingly popular radioactive isotope has its own stand-in. Developed in part by researchers at the National

NIST Develops Test Method for Key Micromechanical Property

January 8, 2008

Engineers and researchers designing and building new microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) can benefit from a new test method developed at the National

The four images (taken with scanning laser confocal microscopy) show variations in surface roughness of an aluminum alloy as produced by increasing amounts of strain

Rough Times: NIST's New Approach to Surface Profiling

January 8, 2008

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a novel technique for measuring the roughness of surfaces that is

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 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

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

'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 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

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

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

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