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By exploiting the weird quantum behavior of atoms, physicists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans released a report today to reduce standards-related trade barriers and called for broader collaboration...
Scientists expect to gain important information about the sun's effect on the Earth's atmosphere and climate from sophisticated instruments—all calibrated by...
New methods reported today by researchers from the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the IBM T.J. Watson Research...
Ground Broken for World's Premier Measurement Research Facility (News Release) Advanced Measurement Laboratory brochure Advanced Measurement Laboratory Web site...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the Commerce Department's Technology Administration, is soliciting proposals for the services...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the Commerce Department's Technology Administration, and the National Cooperation for...
Secretary William M. Daley and Republic of Korea Minister of Commerce, Industry and Energy Kim Young-ho today signed an agreement that will establish a new...
Researchers from the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology and Bell Laboratories of Lucent Technologies have teamed to produce a...
Consumers and businesses can look forward to improved accuracy in the system of weights and measures thanks to MEASUREnet-gov, a new effort at the National...
Measurement-related questions and disputes, including those that can hinder global commerce, soon may be resolved with a click of a computer mouse thanks to a...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is revising the handbook used to check the accuracy of net content labeling on packaged goods sold in the...
A survey conducted by the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and weights and measures...
The United States and 11 other nations have embarked on a pioneering effort that leverages the Internet and cyberspace collaborations to advance and harmonize...
As an initial step toward removing any measurement-related barriers to trade between the United States and the European Union—and eliminate "double testing" of...
Aves D. Thompson, chief of operations in the Alaska Division of Measurement Standards and Commercial Vehicle Enforcement, will be installed as chairman of the...
Many industrial managers and engineers know that the accuracy of their temperature measurements has a big impact on the quality of their products or the...
For everyone who made a New Year's resolution to be more on time for meetings and events in 1998, there's good news from the Commerce Department's National...
U.S. taxpayers are getting more than they pay for from a federal research program designed to ensure accuracy in measurements of radioactive drugs for...
Proposed improvements in the standard that retailers must follow when they voluntarily offer unit pricing information for making value comparisons (between...
Though your summer this year may seem all too short, it will actually be the longest one since 1994. There will be exactly one extra second, a little bonus...
Just how black is the black in that flat-panel display? Until recently, manufacturers and users of high-contrast electronic displays, such as those used in...
Officials from Egypt and the United States are working together to foster cooperation in standards and metrology activities in support of a major governmental...
Weights and measures officials in the National Conference on Weights and Measures are expected to adopt revisions to the Uniform Engine Fuels, Petroleum...
Researchers at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology have built a novel tool for surveying, subdividing and helping to...