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A new Web site launched by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can help federal information systems managers maintain the security of...
A new ASTM International standard for urban search and rescue robots and components tackles humble logistics problems that, left unsolved, could hamper the use...
President George W. Bush's fiscal year (FY) 2009 budget proposal for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) includes $634 million for core...
Budget table Washington, D.C.— President George W. Bush's fiscal year (FY) 2009 budget proposal submitted today to Congress for the Commerce Department's...
The governments of the United States, Brazil and the European Union (EU)—the world's major producers of biofuels—today released an analysis of current biofuel...
Blood coursing through vessels, lubricated cartilage sliding against joints, ink jets splashing on paper—living and nonliving things abound with fluids meeting...
Efforts to create a "hydrogen economy" to reduce U.S. oil imports will get a boost from a new laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology...
Establishing trust in Internet transactions is a mutual process between user and service provider. In bank transactions, for example, customers want to be sure...
The Argonne National Laboratory of the Department of Energy (DoE) announced on Jan. 17, 2008, that a team of researchers at the National Institute of Standards...
Air-source heat pumps typically deliver 1 1/2 to three times more heating energy to a home than the electric energy they consume. This is possible because heat...
Quantum dots—tiny, intense, tunable sources of colorful light—are illuminating new opportunities in biomedical research, cryptography and other fields. But...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued its first reference standards for nanoscale particles targeted for the biomedical research...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a novel technique for measuring the roughness of surfaces that is...
Representatives of standards making bodies, corporate officials and educators from around the world will meet Feb. 21-22, 2008, at the "Global Perspectives and...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in conjunction with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is sponsoring a one-day...
Engineers and researchers designing and building new microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) can benefit from a new test method developed at the National...
Enhancing trade between the United States and the nations of the European Union (EU) while helping ensure the safety and quality of goods sold in both markets...
A new report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows that investment in measurement science has and will continue to have a...
Broadway stars have understudies. Now, an increasingly popular radioactive isotope has its own stand-in. Developed in part by researchers at the National...
A team of computer scientists and mathematicians from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Texas, Arlington is...
A hermetically sealed glass and aluminum encasement built by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will protect the first world map to label...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed an imaging system that quickly maps the mechanical properties of materials—how stiff or...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in cooperation with the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), has established a new accreditation...
Millions of satellite television and radio users in North Africa and the Middle East can now see and hear the precise time of day, thanks to technical...
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made the first direct measurements of the infinitesimal expansion and collapse of...