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NIST's Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) has published its first comprehensive report, covering the period from its establishment in May 2007...
(Gaithersburg, MD)--The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a federal agency within the Department of Commerce (DOC), will hold an industry...
GAITHERSBURG, MD – The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology today released for public review a report* that identifies...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the final version of an updated publication to help organizations and employees secure...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that it is establishing a financial assistance program to help selected institutions...
A wildfire rages across southern California wildlands towards residential communities, endangering residents and firefighters and sending property up in smoke...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in partnership with the Department of Defense (DOD), the Intelligence Community (IC), and the...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered that a reduction in mechanical strain at the boundaries of crystal...
Biophysicists long for an ideal material—something more structured and less sticky than a standard glass surface—to anchor and position individual biomolecules...
The Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the agency's primary private-sector advisory...
Shape is turning out to be a particularly important feature of some commercially important nanoparticles - but in subtle ways. New studies* by scientists at the...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be serving up "soccer under glass" - the glass of a microscope lens - when nanosoccer makes its...
Better predictions of how many valuable materials behave under stress could be on the way from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where...
A new National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) assay using a "glow or no glow" technique may soon help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security...
GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that it is establishing a financial...
The NanoFab has a new capability to enhance its prototype and proof-of-concept capabilities with a Heidelberg DWL-66FS Laser Pattern Generator designed for low...
We will be vastly expanding our capabilities in 2009 by the addition of the following tools purchased in Fiscal Year 2007. We will announce anticipated delivery...
The NanoFab now has a second electron beam nanolithography system on line, model JEOL JBX-6300FX. The beam deflection unit employs a 19 bit DAC unit for...
A DRAFT of NIST Special Publication 500-267, A Profile for IPv6 in the U.S. Government - Version 1.0 (Draft 2), is now available for public comment. This...
WASHINGTON —The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and National Institute of Standards and...
BOULDER, Colo.—Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated entanglement—a phenomenon peculiar to the atomic-scale...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced the availability of approximately $120 million in competitive grants for the...
Seventy organizations have taken the first step toward the 2009 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest recognition for innovation and...
Information exchange processes developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be at the center of the effort to design and build...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has delivered to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) a draft revision to the 2005 federal...