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Experts in manufacturing processes, measurement science and tools, and computational methods will meet Oct. 17-19, 2006, in Gaithersburg, Md., to set research...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in cooperation with the External RNA Controls Consortium (ERCC), has awarded a contract to...
A new design for a microwave oscillator that is smaller, simpler, and produces clearer signals at a single frequency than comparable devices has been invented...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued three new reference materials to support researchers studying the properties of...
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Today, the University of Maryland (UM), the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the National...
(9/8/2006, ARCHIVE, incorporated into 9/19/2011 update) What is NIST? The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the Commerce...
Americans are living longer than ever. As the senior population grows over the coming years, increasing the quality of healthcare while reducing costs will...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has co-organized with U.S. industry a workshop to address the increasing pressure on manufacturers...
When the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released the final report in October 2005 from its technical investigation of the fires and...
Before ditching or donating that used computer, CD or other data-storage media, sensitive or personal information should be properly "sanitized," according to a...
The 1995 bombing that triggered the collapse of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., first raised concerns in the United States about...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate, is...
Chemical engineers and others designing "green" industrial processes using new ionic liquid solvents now have an important new resource, an on-line database of...
GAITHERSBURG, MD –Scientists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used a beam of electrons to move a single...
GAITHERSBURG, MD –Thanks to a new and improved imaging instrument at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), scientists...
The White House has announced that two researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are among the 56 recipients of the 2005...
Increasingly, medical and pharmaceutical researchers are looking to biomedical imaging as a tool to track disease progress, speed drug discovery and improve...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting comments on a draft revision of Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information...
Researchers from the Pacific Northwest Research Institute (PNRI) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have uncovered a pattern of DNA...
On July 19, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Director Bill Jeffrey testified before the House Committee on Science and the Committee on...
Once a tool primarily used by law enforcement to help identify criminals, biometric technologies increasingly are being used by government and the private...
After 10 years of research, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has unveiled the world's first precision instrument for directly measuring...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated the use of water droplets as minuscule "boxes" for small numbers of...
BOULDER, COLO.—An experimental atomic clock based on a single mercury atom is now at least five times more precise than the national standard clock based on a...
GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have joined in a $1.5 million...