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A class of water-loving, jelly-like materials with uses ranges ranging from the mundane, such as superabsorbent diaper liners, to the sophisticated, such as...
Using a powerful combination of microanalytic techniques that simultaneously image photoelectric current and chemical reaction rates across a surface on a...
Chances are you know how many miles your car logs for each gallon or tankful of gas, but you probably have only a foggy idea of how much energy your house...
The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC), the nationwide network that promotes and strengthens technology transfer from its membership of...
The Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at The George Washington University has announced that five researchers at the National...
As device manufacturing technologies sizes shrink beyond 22 nm and increase in complexity, defects become more detrimental to device performance and harder to...
The Colorado Federal Executive Board (CFEB) promotes strategic partnering, communication, and collaboration among the Federal agencies located in Colorado. Each...
Additional Media Contact: SRC: Dan Francisco 916-293-9030 GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and the National Institute of...
An international collaboration led by researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) has demonstrated a novel temporal filtering...
Daniel Madrzykowski, a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) fire protection engineer with a 25-year track record of conducting research that...
Two National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) scientists, David Wineland and David Nesbitt, have been elected members of the American Academy of...
A new handbook by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice (NIJ) provides...
An old, somewhat passé, trick used to purify protein samples based on their affinity for water has found new fans at the National Institute of Standards and...
As markets for miniature, hybrid machines known as MEMS grow and diversify, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has introduced a long...
By bouncing eye-safe laser pulses off a mirror on a hillside, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have transferred...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published the fourth revision of the government's foundational computer security guide, Security...
On April 12, 2013, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) hosted a workshop for DNA Analysts at its Gaithersburg, Maryland, campus, which was...
If spintronics is to become the Next Big Thing, it will be because researchers have learned how to control many extremely small, but hugely significant, things...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is holding the second of four planned workshops to develop a voluntary framework to reduce...
To help the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) address industry's needs most efficiently, the National Institute of Standards and Technology...
On an ordinary day, the United States consumes about 70 billion cubic feet of natural gas – enough to fill a space a mile long, a mile wide, and half a mile...
Dr. Joseph L. Dehmer, a 40-year veteran of federal science research and administration, has been named Director of the Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) of...
Radio communications can be unreliable in underground tunnels and other large, complicated structures, posing a safety hazard for emergency responders. New...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is hosting a symposium on how to develop and evaluate "ontologies"—formal, computer-readable...
The sixth annual "Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security" conference will meet on May 21 and 22, 2013, at the Ronald Reagan...