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A new reference material that will help laboratories accurately measure radioactive contamination in seawater is now available from the National Institute of...
Depicting how an innovative government organization might use the Baldrige Excellence Framework: A Systems Approach to Improving Your Organization's Performance...
Teaming with a medical equipment company, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated the first calibration...
The NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) is pleased to announce the release of the...
Since quantum theory has been known to borrow from the arts—Murray Gell-Mann famously named "quarks" after a line from James Joyce—it's only fitting that...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is hosting " Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security-2015,"...
Researchers looking for information on the properties of methane at high temperatures or the isotopic composition of an element know they can rely on standard...
A newly released study comparing 34 U.S. health care organizations that received the Baldrige National Quality Award with their 153 geographically closest...
Gaithersburg, MD — The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released a draft for public comment of the first guide in a new series of...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has put firm numbers on the high costs of installing pipelines to transport hydrogen fuel—and also...
Hunting for the best material from which to build organic solar cells can be like seeking the proverbial haystack needle, but now scientists at the National...
The Commerce Department's Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) program is signing up a new round of industry collaborators for the test bed used to...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have come up with a way to shrink a research instrument generally associated with large...
The White House fact sheet on cybersecurity highlights five NIST efforts to improve the nation's cybersecurity: The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence...
Today the White House released a fact sheet on manufacturing that highlights efforts of NIST's Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership. Investing in the...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) generate data and author publications that lead to advances in diverse fields such as...
On June 30, 2015, the Census Bureau's National Processing Center in Jeffersonville, Indiana awarded a $120 million Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) to...
NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has proposed two new building blocks, one to help organizations improve the security of email, the...
In recent days, four scientists in the Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have been recognized...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has named experts in business continuity planning and the post-disaster recovery of telecommunication...
JILA researchers have designed a microscope instrument so stable that it can accurately measure the 3D movement of individual molecules over many hours—hundreds...
As engineered nanomaterials increasingly find their way into commercial products, researchers who study the potential environmental or health impacts of those...
For the great majority of human history, the earth's rotation—the apparent motion of the sun and stars across the sky—kept time far more precisely than any...
Spintronics is an emerging field of electronics in which devices work by manipulating the quantum mechanical spin 1 of electrons, in addition to their...
Restoration is well underway for NIST's 4.45-million newton (equivalent to one million pounds-force) deadweight machine, the largest in the world. The three...