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The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is postponing a public meeting scheduled for April 22, 2002, in New York City to
I. BACKGROUND Every year, millions of Americans face disaster, and its terrifying consequences. Natural perils of extreme winds, fires, earthquakes, floods
The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today announced the signing
Methodology: A hypothetical sum was invested in each of the 1991-2000, publicly-traded Baldrige Award recipient's common stock, in the year they applied for the
U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans today announced the "Baldrige Index" has once again outperformed the Standard & Poor's 500. The announcement was made at a
Photos from ceremony Remarks by the President President George W. Bush and Commerce Secretary Don Evans today honored five organizations, including the first in
A newly released, congressionally mandated report from the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) concludes that federal
Cell membrane researchers are eagerly bracing for a long-awaited cold wave. A new partnership involving the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST
Commerce Secretary Don Evans announced today the release of The Advanced Technology Program: Reform with a Purpose, a report that presents six recommendations
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that materials scientist John Cahn will receive the 2002
Sliding down the icy side of a mountain on steel runners, racers in the bobsled, luge and skeleton events reach some of the highest speeds of any Olympic Winter
The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), a program of the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is
Commerce Secretary Announces New Standard for Global Information Security (News Release) AES Questions and Answers Oct 2, 2000, News Release on Selection of AES
The U.S. Senate today confirmed Arden L. Bement Jr. as director of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology. The position of
Commerce Secretary Don Evans has presented 23 employees of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology and six former employees
Two U.S. Department of Commerce agencies, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and International Trade Administration, today launched Export Alert
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The following text is a transcript of a press conference hosted by JILA on October 9, 2001. Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman of JILA answered questions from
Capturing the "Holy Grail" Eric A. Cornell of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Carl E. Wieman of the University of Colorado at Boulder led
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today awarded $5 million total in funding for nine research grants that will
For the past seven years, the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology has compared winners of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality
Bose-Einstein condensates can sometimes explode like a pocket-sized supernova, but when they're not doing that they can look like the inside of a cigar bar
In a Bose-Einstein condensate, virtually all the atoms in the ultra-cold gas fall into the lowest-energy quantum mechanical state. Spread out in space, they
Vortices are fundamental excitations of gases and liquids. Well-known examples include tornados, whirlpools, and smoke rings. The main characteristic of
What do gas pumps, truck scales, blood-cholesterol tests, DNA chips, industrial lasers, satellite antennas, aircraft altimeters and bullet-proof vests have in