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NIST Advisory Group Welcomes Three New Members

June 10, 2008

James M. Turner, deputy director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has named three distinguished experts from industry and academia...

Photograph of circuit used in NIST's Johnson noise thermometry system.

NIST's Novel 'Noise Thermometry' May Help Redefine International Unit of Temperature

June 10, 2008

After seven years of work, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a system that relies on the "noise" of jiggling...

Everything You Want To Know About SI (But Were Afraid to Ask)

June 10, 2008

Relax, even scientists can sometimes use help when making conversions and measurements with the modern metric system, the International System of Units (known...

Eighty-Five Take First Step Toward 2008 Baldrige Award

June 10, 2008

Eighty-five organizations—the highest number of applicants since 1992—are in the running for the 2008 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's...

Tests Check Out Rescue Robots' Life-Saving Vision

June 10, 2008

To save lives, search and rescue robots crawling through the rubble of a collapsed building or surveying a chemical spill area must be capable of beaming back...

Low-Level Plutonium Sample Involved in NIST-Boulder Lab Incident

June 10, 2008

Boulder, Colo.- On Monday afternoon, June 9, researchers in a laboratory room at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

EEEL Researchers Develop Novel Attenuator for High-energy Lasers

June 2, 2008

A laser attenuator having a well-known and stable attenuation can extend the usefulness of an optical power meter for laser radiometry. The challenge of...

Artist rendition of a tiny robot approaching a malfunctioning red blood cell

Learn About 'NIST and Nanosoccer' from New Web Site and Video

May 28, 2008

If you love soccer but don't want to wait until the next World Cup in 2010 to satisfy your appetite for the most popular game on Earth, the National Institute...

NIST researchers measured the surface stress of a monolayer film

A Molecular 'Salve' to Sooth Surface Stresses

May 28, 2008

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shown for the first time that a single layer of molecular "salve" can...

NIST Staff Honored for Technology Transfer

May 28, 2008

John Lehman, Chris Cromer and Xiaoyu Li of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have received a 2008 Award for Excellence in Technology...

Text Retrieval Trials Focus on Searching Blogs and Legal Documents

May 28, 2008

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking participants for its next Text Retrieval Conference—TREC 2008. TREC is an annual evaluation...

Grant Proposals Sought for Construction of Science Research Buildings

May 28, 2008

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) seeks grant proposals for the construction of science research buildings from institutions of higher...

Word/Logic Bank to Help Build 'Thinking' Machines

May 28, 2008

Information scientists announced an agreement last month on a "concept bank" programmers could use to build thinking machines that reason about complex problems...

Two for One: NIST Design Enables More Cost Effective Quantum Key Distribution

May 28, 2008

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a simpler and potentially lower-cost method for distributing strings...

New Iron-based and Copper-Oxide High-Temperature Superconductors Share Key Magnetic Properties

May 28, 2008

GAITHERSBURG, MD—In the initial studies of a new class of high-temperature superconductors discovered earlier this year, research at the Commerce Department's...

Electronics engineer Dennis Camell aligns antennas in an old California silica mine for a NIST study identifying optimal frequencies for radio signal transmissions in tunnels.

Emergency Links: NIST Identifies 'Sweet Spot' for Radios in Tunnels

May 13, 2008

As part of a project to improve wireless communications for emergency responders, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have...

Bitter Orange SRMs: Tools for Product Analysis/Quality

May 13, 2008

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) for bitter orange, long used in folk medicine and...

Spin Control: New Technique Sorts Nanotubes by Length

May 13, 2008

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have reported a new technique to sort batches of carbon nanotubes by length using high...

A photograph of a typical nanosoccer robot compared in size to red blood cells.

Public Invited to See Nanosoccer Robots in Action in Pittsburgh

May 13, 2008

Nanosoccer returns to the field later this month, when the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) hosts for the second time the world's most...

NIST Offers U.S. Interpretations of Recent SI (Metric) Changes

May 13, 2008

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a new American version of the English language SI Brochure, the eighth edition of the...

Photo collage of internet top-level domain names.

NIST Tool Helps Internet Master Top-level Domains

May 13, 2008

At the request of a worldwide Internet organization, a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed an algorithm...

Disorder Enables Extreme Sensitivity in Piezoelectric Materials

May 13, 2008

A research team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has found an explanation for the extreme sensitivity to mechanical pressure...

Record-setting Laser May Aid Searches for Earthlike Planets

May 13, 2008

Scientists at the University of Konstanz (Germany) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated an ultrafast laser that...

atomic structure of the mix of lithium amide with lightweight metal hydrides

Improved Ion Mobility Is Key to New Hydrogen Storage Compound

May 13, 2008

A materials scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has deciphered the structure of a new class of materials that can store...

Two New Honors for NIST Physicists

April 29, 2008

David Wineland, physicist and fellow of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is a 2008 recipient of a Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Award...

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