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NIST Contributes to Media's Top Science Stories of 2014

January 7, 2015

Cool instruments—literally—made by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) contributed to the media's top science stories of 2014. More than a...

Reliable RNA Analysis Now Easier with NIST 'Dashboard' Tool

December 2, 2014

A new, innovative "dashboard" from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) won't help you drive your car, but it will help enable reproducible...

Ensuring Quality: NIST Suggests New Purity Test for Biotech Products

December 2, 2014

To avoid contaminating their experiments, biomedical researchers want to know that the scientific products they buy are pure. But how pure does something need...

Research in Images: Cutaway View of Nanoparticles in a Neural Cell

November 26, 2014

NIST's Precision Imaging Facility (PIF) in Boulder, Colo., provides a variety of advanced tools for precisely measuring the structure and chemical composition...

NIST Study Suggests Light May Be Skewing Lab Tests on Nanoparticles' Health Effects

November 18, 2014

Truth shines a light into dark places. But sometimes to find that truth in the first place, it's better to stay in the dark. That's what recent findings at the...

Computer simulations of two possible morphologies of a block copolymer film

NIST Offers Electronics Industry Two Ways to Snoop on Self-Organizing Molecules

October 22, 2014

A few short years ago, the idea of a practical manufacturing process based on getting molecules to organize themselves in useful nanoscale shapes seemed...

Strengthening Thin-Film Bonds with Ultrafast Data Collection

October 17, 2014

When studying extremely fast reactions in ultrathin materials, two measurements are better than one. A new research tool invented by researchers at Lawrence...

NIST Scientists Improve Microscopic Batteries with Homebuilt Imaging Analysis

September 26, 2014

In a rare case of having their cake and eating it too, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and other institutions have...

TOP: Image of fluorescent reference material on microscope. BOTTOM: Charting of microscope control parameters.

How are you establishing long-term measurement assurance in fluorescence microscopy?

September 24, 2014

Would your laboratory or company benefit from having an easy method to track fluorescence microscopy performance? Can you compare your imaging results to those...

A structural model of a typical silicon nanocrystal stabilized within an organic shell of cyclohexane.

World's Smallest Reference Material is Big Plus for Nanotechnology

September 24, 2014

If it's true that good things come in small packages, then the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can now make anyone working with...

Lighten Up! New NIST Research Facility Gives Material Help to Automakers

August 26, 2014

Want to make more fuel-efficient cars and trucks? Build them out of lighter materials. Sounds easy, but it's not. Automakers have decades of experience with the...

Optical micrographs of severe corrosion on steel alloy samples exposed to ethanol and acetic acid vapors

NIST Corrosion Lab Tests Suggest Need for Underground Gas Tank Retrofits

July 29, 2014

A hidden hazard may lurk beneath many of the roughly 156,000 gas stations across the United States. The hazard is corrosion in parts of underground gas storage...

Latest NIST Mass Spectral Library: Expanded Coverage, Features

July 29, 2014

The world's most widely used and trusted resource for identifying mass spectra, the "fingerprints" of molecules, has undergone a major expansion, according to...

Enhanced NIST Instrument Enables High-speed Chemical Imaging of Tissues

July 22, 2014

A research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working with the Cleveland Clinic, has demonstrated a dramatically improved...

Researchers Find Organic Pollutants Not Factor in Turtle Tumor Disease

July 15, 2014

For nearly four decades, scientists have suspected that persistent organic pollutants (POPs) contributed to a green turtle's susceptibility to the virus that...

Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody molecule with glycan attached. Inset shows glycan structure.

New NIST Web Tool Makes Working with Glycan Sugars a Lot Sweeter

July 11, 2014

When researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) need a special tool to do their work more effectively, they often prove that...

Call for Comments: A Strategic Plan for the Materials Genome Initiative

June 27, 2014

The federal government is looking for public comment on a draft strategic plan for the Obama administration's Materials Genome Initiative (MGI). The draft 2014...

Shown here are the tools for testing arson samples using NIST's new PLOT capillary method.

NIST Analytic Technique Offers Arson Investigators Faster, More Accurate Results

June 17, 2014

A research group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has demonstrated a new method for detecting ignitable liquids that could change...

High school student Jessica Young checking the packing density of random aggregates of plastic spheres in a cylinder.

Snowballs to Soot: The Clumping Density of Many Things Seems to Be a Standard

June 10, 2014

Particles of soot floating through the air and comets hurtling through space have at least one thing in common: 0.36. That, reports a research group at the...

Lithium Sulfur: A Battery Revolution on the Cheap?

June 3, 2014

Whip together an industrial waste product and a bit of plastic and you might have the recipe for the next revolution in battery technology. Scientists from the...

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