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Wetter Report: New Approach to Testing Surface Adhesion

May 10, 2007

With a nod to one of nature’s best surface chemists—an obscure desert beetle—polymer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

‘Tunable’ Network Features Coordinated Frequency Combs

May 10, 2007

A super stable fiber-optic network that can be tuned across a range of visible and near-infrared frequencies while synchronizing the oscillations of light waves...

New Accreditation Program for Radiation Detector Labs

May 10, 2007

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has established a new voluntary accreditation program for the laboratories that test radiation...

NIST Building Software Offers Green Product Advice

May 10, 2007

Builders interested both in conservation and thrift can benefit from the latest updates to an innovative software package released this week by the National...

Tiny Spectrometer Offers Precision Laser Calibration

May 10, 2007

A tiny device for calibrating or stabilizing precision lasers has been designed and demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

Graphic showing a lipid bilayer membrane (blue) with an alpha-hemolysin nanopore

DNA Sieve: Nanoscale Pores Can Be Tiny Analysis Labs

May 10, 2007

Imagine being able to rapidly identify tiny biological molecules such as DNA and toxins using less than a drop of salt water in a system that can fit on a...

NIST Nanoscale Science and Technology Center Now Accepting Proposals

May 1, 2007

University, industry, government and other researchers who need access to state-of-the-art and beyond-state-of-the-art facilities to study a wide range of...

Placing Single Nanowires: NIST Makes the Connection

April 26, 2007

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised a system for manipulating and precisely positioning individual nanowires...

NIST Issues Guidelines for Ensuring RFID Security

April 26, 2007

Gaithersburg, MD – Retailers, manufacturers, hospitals, federal agencies and other organizations planning to use radio frequency identification (RFID)...

Commerce's NIST and Montgomery County Public Schools Partner to Strengthen Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education

April 19, 2007

Statement from Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski on the NIST-MCPS Agreement GAITHERSBURG, MD—The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and...

Study: Cells Selectively Absorb Short Nanotubes

March 30, 2007

DNA-wrapped single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) shorter than about 200 nanometers readily enter into human lung cells and so may pose an increased risk to...

New JILA Apparatus Measures Fast Nanoscale Motions

March 16, 2007

A new nanoscale apparatus developed at JILA—a tiny gold beam whose 40 million vibrations per second are measured by hopping electrons—offers the potential for a...

Fifteen Named to Earthquake Hazards Reduction Advisory Committee

February 28, 2007

William Jeffrey, director of the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has named 15 distinguished academic, industry...

NIST Report Addresses Scientific and Technical Measurement Challenges Key to Sustaining U.S. Innovation

February 12, 2007

GAITHERSBURG, Md.—A new report based on an analysis of more than 700 scientific and technical measurement challenges facing U.S. industry today, calls on the...

First 2D Pictures of a 'Frequency Comb' Transform It into a Brush

February 7, 2007

BOULDER, Colo.—Physicists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have taken the first ever two-dimensional pictures...

Budget Request Promotes National Competitiveness Through Research and Facilities at Commerce Department's NIST

February 5, 2007

Budget table Opening Statement from FY 2008 NIST Budget Press Briefing Teleconference by William Jeffrey, Director, NIST Washington, D.C. — President George W...

NIST Develops Rapid Method for Judging Nanotube Purity

February 1, 2007

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a sensitive new method for rapidly assessing the quality of carbon...

NIST Issues Draft IPv6 Technical Profile

February 1, 2007

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) yesterday issued a draft profile that will assist federal agencies in developing plans to acquire and...

NIST ‘Standard Bullet’ Fights Gang Violence

January 19, 2007

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a copper bullet designed to help end criminal sprees without once being...

Algae Toxin Identification Unravels Fish-Kill Mystery

January 19, 2007

A team of researchers from the Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, S.C., has uncovered a subtle chemical pathway by which normally inoffensive algae...

Improved Nanodots Could Be Key to Future Data Storage

January 19, 2007

The massive global challenge of storing digital data—storage needs reportedly double every year—may be met with a tiny yet powerful solution: magnetic particles...

New Miniaturized Device for Lab-on-a-Chip Separations

January 19, 2007

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed an elegantly simple, miniaturized technique for rapidly separating...

Countries Share Good Times Using GPS and the Internet

January 19, 2007

International time coordination is improving throughout the Americas thanks to a low-cost system relying on Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites and the...

NIST ‘Standard Bullet’ Fights Gang Violence

January 19, 2007

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a copper bullet designed to help end criminal sprees without once being...

New Quartz References For Workplace Safety

January 19, 2007

Chemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new set of reference materials that could contribute to significant...

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