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A new publication that recommends best practices for the next generation of portable biometric acquisition devices--Mobile ID--has been published by the
On Oct. 6, 2009, the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) will sponsor a technology transfer and commercialization showcase for bio-imaging
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA) are cosponsoring the Biometric Consortium Conference 2009 on
In what may prove to be a major development for scientists in fields ranging from forensics to quantum communications, researchers at the National Institute of
The century-old challenge of transporting acetylene may have been solved in principle by a team of scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and
GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that EnerNex Corporation, Knoxville, Tenn
Dr. Craig Brown, an instrument scientist for the Disk Chopper Spectrometer at the NIST Center for Neutron Research, will receive a PECASE award for showing
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its final version of a publication that represents a major step toward building a unified
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) have published a report on the inaugural meeting
As a result of a major inter-laboratory study, the standards body ASTM International has been able to update its guidelines for a commonly used technique for
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new calibration technique that will improve the reliability and
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically
An experimental atomic clock based on ytterbium atoms is about four times more accurate than it was several years ago, giving it a precision comparable to that
BOULDER, Colo.—Raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have
Commercial process-design software that incorporates NIST's thermophysical and thermochemical property data sets will receive a 2009 R&D 100 award, R&D Magazine
The masterpieces that spring from the talents of Rembrandt, Van Gogh and other artists often begin with the creation of a gradient of colors on a palette. In a
A new class of economically viable solar power cells—cheap, flexible and easy to make—has come a step closer to reality as a result of recent work at the
NIST physicist Ian Spielman has been profiled at washingtonpost.com as " This Week's Federal Player", a regular feature created by the Washington Post Web site
A guide for designing buildings using steel moment frames to resist earthquakes has been published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced a third major stakeholders workshop as NIST
Robert Celotta, Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST), welcomed eight new
A short movie entitled "Simulation of Non-Newtonian Suspensions: Shear Thinning Case" developed by ITL's Scientific Applications and Visualization Group in
Dianne O'Leary and G. W. (Pete) Stewart, Faculty Appointees in the Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division, have been named Fellows of the Society for
The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that it is awarding grants totaling more than $55.5 million