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NIST, ASTM Land a One-Two Punch to Fight Explosives Terrorism

March 30, 2011

Trace-explosives detectors (TEDs) are an increasingly common sight at airports and on loading docks, and emergency response personnel carry them to evaluate...

Charge It: Neutral Atoms Made to Act Like Electrically Charged Particles

March 30, 2011

Completing the story they started by creating synthetic magnetic fields, scientists from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaboration of the National...

Manufacturing Innovations 2011: Seizing Tomorrow's Opportunities Today

March 1, 2011

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) will host Manufacturing Innovations 2011 from May...

NIST, Food Marketing Institute Co-Host Webinar on Ensuring Accurate Net Weights in Retail

March 1, 2011

A reliable and trustworthy system of weights and measures is vital for economic activity. Maintaining that system requires constant vigilance, and that's where...

NIST researcher Dawn Cross calibrating a mercury thermometer

End of an Era: NIST to Cease Calibrating Mercury Thermometers

February 2, 2011

Beginning March 1, 2011, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will no longer provide calibration services for mercury thermometers. The...

NIST Physicist Joseph Stroscio Named Among 2010 AAAS Fellows

January 19, 2011

Joseph Stroscio, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the...

Real-World Graphene Devices May Have a Bumpy Ride

January 19, 2011

Electronics researchers love graphene. A two-dimensional sheet of carbon one atom thick, graphene is like a superhighway for electrons, which rocket through the...

Schematic of flat electron wavefronts twisted into a fan of helices using a very thin film with a 5-micron-diameter pattern of nanoscale slits

NIST Puts a New Twist on the Electron Beam

January 13, 2011

Electron microscopes are among the most widely used scientific and medical tools for studying and understanding a wide range of materials, from biological...

NVLAP Recognized by ENERGY STAR

December 8, 2010

ENERGY STAR, a program of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Energy (DOE) to promote energy efficiency, has recognized the National...

NIST's New Scanning Probe Microscope is Supercool

December 8, 2010

The discoveries of superconductivity, the quantum Hall effect and the fractional quantum Hall effect were all the result of measurements made at increasingly...

One-Hundred Thirty-Nine Employees Receive Department of Commerce Gold and Silver Medals, NIST Departmental Bronze Medals and Other Awards

December 2, 2010

GAITHERSBURG, Md.--Employees of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) were honored in ceremonies held Dec. 1, 2010, at...

NIST Patent Roundup

November 9, 2010

NIST researchers and their collaborators were awarded seven patents in the past year for a wide variety of technologies. Since Oct. 1, 2009, NIST has made a...

New NIST Dietary Supplement Reference Materials Could Be 'Berry' Useful

November 9, 2010

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have developed new certified reference materials for measuring amounts of organic acids in...

NIST, Harvard Researchers Share 2010 Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics

October 26, 2010

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physical scientist Henri Lezec and Federico Capasso of Harvard have received the Julius Springer Prize for...

NIST Releases 2009 Department of Commerce Technology Transfer Report

October 13, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the 2009 Technology Transfer Report, an annual report summarizing the technology transfer...

This Little Light of Mine: Changing the Color of Single Photons Emitted by Quantum Dots

October 13, 2010

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated* for the first time the conversion of near-infrared 1,300 nm...

Metric Week Begins 10/10/10!

September 28, 2010

Every day is a metric day at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). But that won't stop the agency from celebrating Metric Week, held...

NIST to Award Up to $15 Million to UMD to Support Nanotechnology Research

September 28, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) will award a five-year cooperative agreement...

NIST to Host Third Annual Maryland Stem Cell Research Symposium

September 14, 2010

On Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host the Third Annual Maryland Stem Cell Research Symposium at NIST...

Archaeologists routinely use radiometric dating to determine the age of materials such as ancient campfires and mammoth teeth.

Research Shows Radiometric Dating Still Reliable (Again)

September 14, 2010

Recent puzzling observations of tiny variations in nuclear decay rates have led some to question the science of using decay rates to determine the relative ages...

New GSI Web site Experience Puts Product Standards on the Map

September 14, 2010

Those looking for the latest product standards-related news, regulatory developments, events and workshops around the world now can turn to the new Global...

NIST Researchers Hear Puzzling New Physics from Graphene Quartet's Quantum Harmonies

September 8, 2010

GAITHERSBURG, Md. – Using a one-of-a-kind instrument designed and built at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an international team of...

Manufacturing Extension Partnership Awards Grant to Support Green Building Technologies

August 31, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) has awarded a grant of $1.5 million over 3 years to...

Washington Metro Region Nanotechnology Partnership Forum at NIST

August 31, 2010

On Sept. 13, 2010, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Federal Laboratory Consortium, the Maryland Technology Development Corporation...

NIST Technology Called Upon to Clean Up Chernobyl Disaster Site

August 17, 2010

A modified version of the RoboCrane®, a unique floating platform developed by manufacturing research engineers at the National Institute of Standards and...

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