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On Oct. 2, 2007, S. Shyam Sunder, director of the Building and Fire Research Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), testified...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a new publication that provides detailed tips on how to make web servers more resistant...
Improvements to the technology infrastructure for researching and developing new biopharmaceuticals would be expected to save the industry hundreds of millions...
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Using a device that can turn a tiny piece of laboratory space into an ion cloud as hot as those found in a nuclear fusion reactor, physicists at the National...
A transistor containing quantum dots that can count individual photons (the smallest particles of light) has been designed and demonstrated at the National...
How do you conveniently measure something that not only is 14 times lighter than air but also invisible? That's just one of the tasks National Institute of...
Materials researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), together with colleagues from IBM and the Massachusetts Institute of...
A high-speed quantum cryptography system that allows "Alice" and "Bob" to discuss things in absolute secrecy earned a 2007 R&D 100 Award for a team of...
Quantum cryptography is potentially the most secure method of sending encrypted information, but does it have a speed limit? According to a new paper by...
The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced 56 new awards for innovative industrial research and development...
BOULDER, Colo.— Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have transferred information between two "artificial atoms" by way of...
DNA, the biomolecule that provides the blueprint for life, has a lesser-known identity as a stretchy polymer. JILA scientists have found a flaw in the most...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in cooperation with the MIT Enterprise Forum™ and TEDCO, will host a technology transfer workshop on...
Recommendations for a new set of requirements intended to make future voting systems more "secure, reliable, and easier for all voters to use" have been...
Many Web-based services, from shopping to online word processing, allow computer programs to talk to each other and exchange user data across several Web sites...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently issued a guide to Fractography of Ceramics and Glasses (NIST Special Publication SP 960-16)...
All researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wanted was a simple, quick method for making thin films of block copolymers or BCPs...
Visible and ultraviolet laser light has been used for years to cool trapped atoms—and more recently larger objects—by reducing the extent of their thermal...
Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, and the Commerce...
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In preparation for the September 2 international voting deadline, the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has supported...
Konrad Lehnert, a physicist at JILA, is a finalist for the 2007 Service to America medals, presented annually by the non-profit, non-partisan Partnership for...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released an improved version of its Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Data Generator, a...
Factories have much to gain from wireless technology, such as robot control, RFID tag monitoring, and local-area network (LAN) communications. Wireless systems...