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Editor’s Note: The headline on this article was updated to clarify that NIST as an institution is not making a policy recommendation on this subject. The peer
If you’re wondering when a hydrogen-powered car will become a viable option for you, take heart. A team including scientists at the National Institute of
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will jointly sponsor the 2018 Global City Teams
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For some, it is a shocking revelation. But most Americans eventually come to accept the fact that a “two by four” board is actually 1.5 inches by 3.5 inches (38
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Next year, scientists expect to change the way we define the basic units with which we measure our universe. An article by scientists at the National Institute
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is officially asking the public for help heading off a looming threat to information security: quantum
Sometimes lab research leads to a discovery that’s commercially viable enough to start a company. But for scientists with little business experience, making the
We can create software with 100 times fewer vulnerabilities than we do today, according to computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and
In science, sometimes the best discoveries come when you’re exploring something else entirely. That’s the case with recent findings from the National Institute
For the first time in a laboratory setting, NIST scientists have made stop-action x-ray measurements of the way visible light interacts with atoms and molecules
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