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Helping fire safety officers and building managers at health care facilities achieve cost-effective compliance with a widely accepted fire safety code is the
Five companies and two trade associations have joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology in a cooperative research consortium to evaluate the
SOMERS, N.Y.—IBM and the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Physics Laboratory today announced a three-year cooperative research and development
A new version of a popular computer database for analytical chemists and environmental scientists is now available for use with Microsoft® Windows TM software
Environmental scientists, research chemists, combustion engineers and process chemists can search for data on 9,200 chemical reactions in an expanded database
A recently completed Commerce Department field test will help environmental scientists worldwide more accurately measure ground-level changes in damaging
As a vital next step in reinventing the government's use of information technology, the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology
Inspection and process-control improvements achievable with a testing tool developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology recently prompted the
A multilayer, thin-film multijunction thermal converter, or MJTC, developed jointly by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Ballantine
Researchers at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology have invented a novel solar water heating system that is believed to be
Biomedical engineers, biomaterials researchers and medical device developers are among those who can benefit from a one-day tissue engineering workshop at the
GAITHERSBURG, Md.—If it's too hot outside, a visit to the National Institute of Standards and Technology might provide some relief. Physicists here recently
A new facility at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is now available to ensure accurate radiation measurements in medicine and serve as a new
Three paint manufacturers and the Federal Highway Administration, a large user of paint products, have joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology
A newly expanded database on crystal growth conditions of biological macromolecules is now available to help structural biology programs of the pharmaceutical
In colonial times, lamp makers relied on whale oil-based candles as a standard measure of light. Today, a new "electronic eye" developed at the National
The National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology now will accept applications
"I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark." – Thomas Hobbes, last words
"Look ere ye leap." – Proverbs, John Heywood
" Nature does not
The 79th Annual Meeting of the National Conference on Weights and Measures, July 17-21, 1994, in San Diego, Calif., will feature a special technical session on
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced approval of a Digital Signature Standard, which will allow federal
Government and construction industry officials today dedicated a new facility at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to help improve the quality
Weights and measures officials in the United States and Canada have agreed to mutual recognition of test results and examinations of weighing and measuring
The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology has established the National Voluntary Conformity Assessment System Evaluation
Two important software innovations have been made to the NIST/EPA/NIH Mass Spectral Database, a major international resource for analytical chemists and