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President's FY 2014 Budget Request for NIST Supports Research in Advanced Manufacturing, Cybersecurity

April 10, 2013

WASHINGTON — The President's fiscal year (FY) 2014 budget released today proposes $928.3 million for the Department of Commerce's National Institute of

Landmark High-Rise Fire Study Evaluates Effectiveness of Crew Sizes, Elevator Use

April 10, 2013

PHOENIX – When responding to fires in high-rise buildings, firefighting crews of five or six members—instead of three or four—are significantly faster in

NFI Publishes White Paper on Trends, Challenges and Strategy in Forensic Science

April 9, 2013

The role of forensic science throughout the world is changing due to recent technological development. Whereas forensic science has traditionally supported

Screenshot of President Obama Video at 25th Baldrige Ceremony

U.S. Presidents Convey Tributes at Baldrige 25th Anniversary and Award Ceremony

April 9, 2013

Current and former U.S. Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton honored the performance excellence of Baldrige Award-winning organizations at the Baldrige

Commerce Deputy Secretary Blank Presents 2012 Baldrige Award to Four Organizations

April 8, 2013

On April 8, 2013, U.S. Commerce Department Deputy Secretary Rebecca Blank presented four U.S. organizations with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

A Primary Voltage Standard for the Whole World

April 4, 2013

PML researchers are on the verge of reaching a long-sought major goal: Providing the world with a programmable quantum voltage standard that has an uncertainty

Seeing the Oceans in Their True Colors

April 3, 2013

Much of what is known about the state of the Earth's oceans, and how they change over time, comes from satellite monitoring of reflected and thermally emitted

Experts Propose Research Priorities for Making Concrete 'Greener'

April 3, 2013

The challenge of making concrete greener—reducing its sizable carbon footprint without compromising performance—is just like the world's most ubiquitous

Don't Call It Vaporware: Scientists Use Cloud of Atoms as Optical Memory Device

April 3, 2013

Talk about storing data in the cloud. Scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the

NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology Featured on National Public Radio Affiliate WAMU

April 3, 2013

The NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) was featured on the Friday, March 22 edition of Metro Connection, a weekly radio broadcast of

Smart Grid R&D Opportunities Outlined in Two New NIST Reports

April 3, 2013

The nation's aging power grid is evolving into a modern, "smart" energy distribution network, and with these changes comes a host of challenges for the research

Single Photon from a Quantum Emitter? It's a Matter of Timing...

April 3, 2013

Many systems envisioned for practical quantum information processing require the use of single, indistinguishable photons as carriers of information and logic

NIST Boulder researcher Johannes (Hannes) Hubmayr

NIST Goes to the End of the Earth for Measurement Science

April 3, 2013

NIST Boulder researcher Johannes (Hannes) Hubmayr recently spent several weeks at the South Pole Telescope, where he optimized the performance of a NIST camera

Nanoscale Edge Variations Observed with Record-breaking Resolution in Magnetic Nanodevices

March 27, 2013

A team of researchers from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, the University of Maryland, and the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology

NIST Tests Underscore Potential Hazards of Green Laser Pointers

March 20, 2013

Using a low-cost apparatus designed to quickly and accurately measure the properties of handheld laser devices, National Institute of Standards and Technology

NIST Advisory Committee Issues 2012 Annual Report

March 20, 2013

The Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has sent its 2012 annual report to Congress

NIST Guides Seek Interoperability for Automated Fingerprint ID Systems

March 20, 2013

A new set of publications from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) could make it easier, faster, and most importantly, more reliable, for

CNST Director Robert Celotta Featured in European Innovation Publication

March 20, 2013

Robert Celotta, Director of the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST), was interviewed in the 2013 edition of International Innovation -

New NIST Microscope Measures Nanomagnet Property Vital to 'Spintronics'

March 14, 2013

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new microscope able to view and measure an important but elusive

PML Scientists Make Better SEM Imaging and Measurements in the Nano Era Possible

March 14, 2013

Since the inception of the scanning electron microscope (SEM), users have encountered the persistent problem of contamination. Cleanliness is required for

NIST Mechanical Micro-Drum Used as Quantum Memory

March 13, 2013

One of the oldest forms of computer memory is back again—but in a 21st century microscopic device designed by physicists at the National Institute of Standards

CNST Releases the Winter 2013 Edition of The CNST News

March 11, 2013

The NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) is pleased to announce the release of the Winter 2013 edition of The CNST News. This quarterly

Workshop on All-of-Government Approaches to International Consequence Management for CBRNE Incidents - 2013

March 7, 2013

SAVE THE DATE The National Research Council (NRC), through a grant sponsored by NIST OLES, is organizing a workshop: Thursday, June 20, 2013National Academy of

Three NIST IT Leaders Are Honored with 2013 Federal 100 Awards

March 5, 2013

Three members of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Information Technology Laboratory were named to the 2013 list of the top 100

Temp-Controlled 'Nanopores' May Allow Detailed Blood Analysis

March 5, 2013

Tiny biomolecular chambers called nanopores that can be selectively heated may help doctors diagnose disease more effectively if recent research by a team at

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