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NIST OWM will welcome a full class of students to its Advanced Mass Metrology course at NIST’s Gaithersburg, Maryland campus at the end of this July. This nine
In early June, over 115 metrologists from state, county, and federal government laboratories gathered with manufacturing and industry laboratory metrologists in
The NIST Metric Program provides a wide range of educational materials to help students learn to apply the International System of Units (SI), commonly known as
NIST engineer Leon Chao never dreamed his childhood fascination with LEGOs would fit together with his professional life. But a working LEGO model he and his
Having such precise models of lunar dust will enable NASA and private space exploration companies to create more accurate simulations of the Moon’s surface.
The NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) is pleased to announce the schedule for the 2025 Info Hours series. An Info Hour is a one-hour session that
Every five years, NIST OWM gears up to host a Combined Regional Measurement Assurance Program (C-RMAP) training event with a state host with all six RMAP
NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) and the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) are currently conducting an interlaboratory mass comparison as part of a
One of OWM's main responsibilities is to harmonize international and national documentary standards with those used by the U.S. weights and measures community
Scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are developing a mass balance to measure miniscule amounts of liquid with much higher
NIST has delivered a portable and highly accurate instrument for measuring mass to the U.S. Army, marking the first time in the U.S. that this technology is
NIST is working on a big project in a small package. When you want to weigh something – anything – in the United States, whether it’s a truck full of cargo or a
In a brightly lit subterranean lab at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) sits a room-sized electromechanical machine called the NIST-4
Sneezes, rain clouds, and ink jet printers: They all produce or contain liquid droplets so tiny it would take several billion of them to fill a liter bottle
Mechanical engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have just finished calibrating several dozen large metal masses, which will be
The Pilot Study — read 2016 article details — was completed in late 2016 and the Final Report was published on the BIPM website in June of 2017. The main
Using a state-of-the-art device for measuring mass, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made their most precise
When the kilogram, the world’s basic unit of mass, gets a new definition in 2018, it will be based not on a physical artifact but a constant of nature. However
To support the fair sale of gaseous hydrogen as a vehicle fuel, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of North Carolina have demonstrated a new design for an instrument
Note:
Much more recent information is available about redefinition of the SI units. For a comprehensive general overview, see How to Weigh Everything from
Taking the first steps of what would be a major historical advance in the science of measurement, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is