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Report Identifies Three Key R&D Priorities for Future Manufacturing

March 14, 2008

A new report published today identifies and describes research and development priorities for the future of three critical, high-tech U.S. manufacturing areas –

A Sub-femtosecond Stop Watch for 'Photon Finish' Races

March 14, 2008

Using a system that can compare the travel times of two photons with sub-femtosecond precision, scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (a partnership of the

NIST 'Quantum Logic Clock' Rivals Mercury Ion as World's Most Accurate Clock

March 6, 2008

BOULDER, Colo.—An atomic clock that uses an aluminum atom to apply the logic of computers to the peculiarities of the quantum world now rivals the world's most

Failure Investigations Report Highlights Efforts for Safer Buildings

March 5, 2008

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has submitted to Congress the annual report of activities under the National Construction Safety Team

Good Vibrations Probe Innards of Molecular Electronic Junctions

March 5, 2008

Using an unusual spectroscopic technique, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have provided the most convincing evidence

April Tech Transfer Workshop Focuses on Nanotechnology Advances

March 5, 2008

Business executives, entrepreneurs, investors and government researchers and development officials interested in commercializing recent research advances in

NIST Web Site Features Waldseemüller Map Video

March 5, 2008

Visitors to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Web site can view a video that portrays NIST's construction of an encasement for the1507

NIST Mini Sensor May 'Change the Way We Live'

March 5, 2008

Miniature magnetic sensors made at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have won a spot on Technology Review's annual list of 10

Energy Upgrades Pay Off for Taxpayers and Feds

March 5, 2008

Buildings account for 40 percent of the energy consumed within the United States and a similar percentage of carbon dioxide emissions. National Institute of

NIST Requests Comments on Proposed Biometrics Lab Program

March 5, 2008

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking public comments on a proposed new program to accredit testing laboratories that evaluate

A NIST researcher adjusts a multi-gas analyzer which will measure carbon monoxide, oxygen, carbon dioxide and hydrocarbons concentrations produced by such a generator located, against safety advice, in a garage.

NIST to Study Hazards of Portable Gasoline-Powered Generators

March 5, 2008

The same gasoline-powered portable generators that keep the lights burning, the freezer cold, and the house warm when a storm shuts off the electricity, can

Two NIST Researchers named to 'Federal 100'

February 19, 2008

Douglas Montgomery and Stephen Quinn, two computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), have been named to this year's

NIST Releases Three-Year Plan

February 19, 2008

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has delivered a three-year plan for its programs to Congress, as required by the America COMPETES Act

Directed Self-Ordering of Organic Molecules for Electronic Devices

February 19, 2008

A simple surface treatment technique demonstrated by a collaboration between researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Penn

ZZnO nanowires to grow out of the circular copper substrate in all directions

Chemists Measure Copper Levels in Zinc Oxide Nanowires

February 19, 2008

Chemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have been the first to measure significant amounts of copper incorporated into zinc oxide

NIST research biologist Jennifer M. Keller taking a blood sample from a loggerhead turtle

Turtle Studies Suggest Health Risks from Environmental Contaminants

February 19, 2008

The same chemicals that keep food from sticking to our frying pans and stains from setting in our carpets are damaging the livers and impairing the immune

amples of breast cancer cells from a patient with over production

NIST, NCI, SAIC Partner on New Method for Detecting HER2 Breast Cancer

February 19, 2008

Generations of mothers have served up chicken soup to remedy the common cold, but now the therapeutic fowl may find use in diagnosis as well. Researchers at the

New Chair, Vice Chair Elected to NIST Policy Advisory Group

February 19, 2008

A new chair and vice chair have been elected to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT), the

New NIST Video: Bill Phillips School Talk on the Science of Ultracold

February 19, 2008

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has produced a DVD of a presentation that Nobel laureate William Phillips, a physicist at NIST, gave

Prototype microchip device combining NIST's miniature atomic magnetometer with a fluid channel

'NMR on a Chip' Features NIST Magnetic Mini-Sensor

February 19, 2008

A super-sensitive mini-sensor developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can detect nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in tiny samples

Optical 'Frequency Comb' Can Detect the Breath of Disease

February 19, 2008

Exhale on a cold winter day and you will see the water vapor coming out of your mouth. Light up your breath with a Nobel-Prize-related tool, and you could

Collaboration Helps Make JILA Strontium Atomic Clock ‘Best in Class’

February 14, 2008

BOULDER, Colo.— A next-generation atomic clock that tops previous records for accuracy in clocks based on neutral atoms has been demonstrated by physicists at

Biometrics Standards Registry for U.S. Government Issued for Public Comment; Deadline is March 10

February 8, 2008

An interagency subcommittee of the White House's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) issued a draft document today that lists recommended standards

Confocal microscope image of a carbon nanotube/polypropylene composite.

Shear Ingenuity: Tweaking the Conductivity of Nanotube Composites

February 5, 2008

One of the immediate applications of carbon nanotubes (CNT) is as an additive to polymers to create electrically conducting plastics—a relatively low CNT

Revised NIST IPv6 Profile Released for Comment

February 5, 2008

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a second draft of a proposed standards profile to support the implementation of Internet

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