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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that it has selected a consortium led by Northwestern University to establish a new
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Suggesting that quantum computers might benefit from losing some data, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have entangled
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting comments on its updated draft publication on information technology and cybersecurity
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Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have joined with an international team to engineer and measure a potentially
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a compact atomic clock design that relies on cold rubidium atoms
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