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NIST, NASA Launch Joint Effort to Develop New Climate Satellites

March 2, 2010

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have launched a joint effort to gather

Theorists Close In on Improved Atomic Property Predictions

January 12, 2010

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Indiana University (IU) have determined* the most accurate values ever for a

NIST Scientists Quantify Nanoparticle-Protein Interactions

January 12, 2010

A research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has quantified the interaction of gold nanoparticles with important proteins found

Diagram of Power factor correction in operation.

NIST Team Demystifies Utility of Power Factor Correction Devices

December 15, 2009

If you've seen an Internet ad for capacitor-type power factor correction devices, you might be led to believe that using one can save you money on your

NIST Seeks Comments on Cryptography Standards Publication

December 15, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released for public comment a new revision of one of its key computer security documents, a set of

Among Apes, Teeth Are Made for the Toughest Times

December 15, 2009

The teeth of some apes are formed primarily to handle the most stressful times when food is scarce, according to new research performed at the National

$An imaging technique known as neutron diffraction, used along with molecular simulations, revealed that an ion channel’s voltage sensing domain perturbs the two-layered cell membrane that surrounds it.$

Nervy Research: Researchers Take Initial Look at Ion Channels in a Model System

December 1, 2009

Before one of your muscles can twitch, before the thought telling it to flex can race down your nerve, a tiny floodgate of sorts--called an ion channel--must

Small Nanoparticles Bring Big Improvement to Medical Imaging

November 17, 2009

If you're watching the complex processes in a living cell, it is easy to miss something important--especially if you are watching changes that take a long time

Biochemical 'On-Switch' Could Solve Protein Purification Challenge

October 20, 2009

Drugs based on engineered proteins represent a new frontier for pharmaceutical makers. Even after they discover a protein that may form the basis of the next

Scientists Create NICE Solution to Pneumonia Vaccine Testing Problems

October 20, 2009

Medical clinics the world over could benefit from new software created at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where a team of scientists

Magnetic monopoles are created when the spin of an ion in one corner of a spin ice crystal is knocked askew, creating a monopole and adjacent antimonopole.

Large-Scale Cousin of Elusive 'Magnetic Monopoles' Found at NIST

October 6, 2009

Any child can tell you that a magnet has a "north" and a "south" pole, and that if you break it into two pieces, you invariably get two smaller magnets with two

Commerce Secretary Unveils Plan for Smart Grid Interoperability

September 24, 2009

WASHINGTON – Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today unveiled an accelerated plan for developing standards to transform the U.S. power distribution system into a

Therapeutic Nanoparticles Give New Meaning to Sugar-Coating Medicine

September 22, 2009

A research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) studying sugar-coated nanoparticles for use as a possible cancer therapy has

illustration of nitrogen vacancy within a diamond crystal

Diamonds May Be the Ultimate MRI Probe, Say Quantum Physicists

September 22, 2009

Diamonds, it has long been said, are a girl's best friend. But a research team including a physicist from the National Institute of Standards and Technology

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to Present Major Report on Smart Grid Interoperability Standards

September 17, 2009

WASHINGTON—U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will present a major new report for public comment

closeup image of the HKUST-1 metal-organic framework

Safer, Denser Acetylene Storage in an Organic Framework

August 25, 2009

The century-old challenge of transporting acetylene may have been solved in principle by a team of scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and

Hankering for Molecular Electronics? Grab the New NIST Sandwich

August 25, 2009

The sandwich recipe recently concocted by scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may prove tasty for computer chip

cross-section of an organic photovoltaic cell

NIST Scientists Study How to Stack the Deck for Organic Solar Power

July 28, 2009

A new class of economically viable solar power cells—cheap, flexible and easy to make—has come a step closer to reality as a result of recent work at the

NCNR Reactor Relicensed by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

July 14, 2009

To explore the structure and dynamics of novel materials, the more than two dozen scientific instruments at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Physicists Find Way to Control Individual Bits in Quantum Computers

July 14, 2009

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have overcome a hurdle in quantum computer development, having devised a viable way to

New Report on Improving Software Tools that Improve Software

July 14, 2009

If the shiny new software on your computer or mobile phone runs without crashing, you may have another computer program to thank--a static analyzer. Static

Workshop to Aim for Security, Accessibility in Future Voting Systems

June 30, 2009

Creating voting machines that are both trustworthy and easy to use is the goal of the End-to-End Voting Systems Workshop, which should interest anyone concerned

summer students at NIST explore the NCNR

NIST Summer School Passes the Neutron Science Torch

June 30, 2009

What do the mystery of how proteins fold, the unexpected behavior of nanoparticles, and the key to making hydrogen fuel cells have in common? All can be

Shape Matters in the Case of Cobalt Nanoparticles

June 16, 2009

Shape is turning out to be a particularly important feature of some commercially important nanoparticles - but in subtle ways. New studies* by scientists at the

Between a polycrystalline material's grains (saffron layers) exist disorderly areas called grain boundaries

NIST Finds 'A Touch of Glass' in Metal, Settles Century-Old Question

June 16, 2009

Better predictions of how many valuable materials behave under stress could be on the way from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where

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