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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking public comment on its latest draft of a publication intended to help computer security...
Knowledge and insights from current and past winners of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest honor for performance excellence and...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today opened a competition to award new cooperative funding agreements for its Hollings Manufacturing...
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Addressing the nation's rapidly increasing need for cybersecurity employees, the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) is seeking members from...
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have simulated a new concept for rapid, accurate gene sequencing by pulling a DNA...
Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director Willie E. May launches the NIST blog with an inaugural post Welcome to the brand new...
Want to join a group that has included four Nobel Prize recipients? Apply to the latest round of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST)...
A chemist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a portable version of his method for recovering trace chemicals such as...
NIST has been issued a patent for a novel method to improve the performance and utility of the sort of high-intensity discharge (HID) lamps used for stadium and...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is featured in several of the news media's lists of the top science stories of 2015. NIST's change at...
Detecting individual particles of light just got a bit more precise—by 74 picoseconds to be exact—thanks to advances in materials by National Institute of...
Communities weighing choices for capital improvement projects intended to improve their resilience to severe weather, wildfires, earthquakes, or other types of...
A collaboration between NIST researchers and a private-sector firm has led to development of a commercial device to fill a critical need in industry: field...
In the nanoworld, tiny particles of gold can operate like snow blowers, churning through surface layers of an important class of semiconductors to dig...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today it has issued a Notice of Intent to fund...
Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a novel way to noninvasively measure and map how and where...
Imagine you're baking a special cake, one in which the shape of each mote of spice mixed into the batter can have a profound effect on your dessert's color, its...
Everyone expects objects at the atomic scale to follow the weird rules of quantum mechanics. But in the past few years, scientists at NIST and elsewhere have...
The Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) has released its December 2015 monthly newsletter to communicate program status...
BOULDER, Colo.–Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have added to their collection of ingredients for future quantum...
NEW YORK – The National Football League (NFL), Under Armour (NYSE:UA), GE (NYSE: GE), and the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and...
Organizations and individuals are invited to help support the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program by becoming Baldrige sponsors, who support a range of...
BOULDER, Colo.—Two landmarks merged on Dec. 10, 2015, when the most advanced laboratory building at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...