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Three paint manufacturers and the Federal Highway Administration, a large user of paint products, have joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology
U.S. Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown and New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo today officially launched the New York Manufacturing Extension Partnership, an
U.S. Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown today toured a New York City machine tool company to highlight a manufacturing outreach program that is expanding to
To enhance trade between the United States and Ukraine, the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology and the State Committee of
A newly expanded database on crystal growth conditions of biological macromolecules is now available to help structural biology programs of the pharmaceutical
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking quality experts from all sectors of American business, as well as from non-profit health care and
In colonial times, lamp makers relied on whale oil-based candles as a standard measure of light. Today, a new "electronic eye" developed at the National
The National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology now will accept applications
"I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark." – Thomas Hobbes, last words
"Look ere ye leap." – Proverbs, John Heywood
" Nature does not
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced approval of a Digital Signature Standard, which will allow federal
The 79th Annual Meeting of the National Conference on Weights and Measures, July 17-21, 1994, in San Diego, Calif., will feature a special technical session on
Government and construction industry officials today dedicated a new facility at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to help improve the quality
Weights and measures officials in the United States and Canada have agreed to mutual recognition of test results and examinations of weighing and measuring
Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown today released for public comment a report that focuses on ways that the National Information Infrastructure can be used to
A government-developed technology to protect the security of telephone conversations and other information communicated over telephone lines is meant to be used
The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the Standards Council
U.S. and Russian participants at the third meeting of the Intergovernmental U.S./Russian Business Development Committee's Standards Working Group in Moscow, May
Two important software innovations have been made to the NIST/EPA/NIH Mass Spectral Database, a major international resource for analytical chemists and
The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology has established the National Voluntary Conformity Assessment System Evaluation
The National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced it will initiate a technical modification to a computer security standard used to support the
The strong earthquake that struck the Los Angeles area last January 17 provided the first full-scale test of modern seismic structural codes and revealed both
How far away is the moon?
How fast does light travel?
How do detergent enzymes trounce laundry stains?
Visitors to the Smithsonian's National Museum of
The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced today that 71 companies have applied for the 1994 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. They