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In what may prove to be a major development for scientists in fields ranging from forensics to quantum communications, researchers at the National Institute of...
GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that EnerNex Corporation, Knoxville, Tenn...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its final version of a publication that represents a major step toward building a unified...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) have published a report on the inaugural meeting...
As a result of a major inter-laboratory study, the standards body ASTM International has been able to update its guidelines for a commonly used technique for...
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically...
An experimental atomic clock based on ytterbium atoms is about four times more accurate than it was several years ago, giving it a precision comparable to that...
BOULDER, Colo.—Raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have...
Commercial process-design software that incorporates NIST's thermophysical and thermochemical property data sets will receive a 2009 R&D 100 award, R&D Magazine...
The masterpieces that spring from the talents of Rembrandt, Van Gogh and other artists often begin with the creation of a gradient of colors on a palette. In a...
A new class of economically viable solar power cells—cheap, flexible and easy to make—has come a step closer to reality as a result of recent work at the...
Intelligent machines of the future will turn custom designs into finished products quickly and efficiently, save lives in catastrophes, and minimize...
A guide for designing buildings using steel moment frames to resist earthquakes has been published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced a third major stakeholders workshop as NIST...
The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that it is awarding grants totaling more than $55.5 million...
On July 16, the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) issued a new policy statement that provides "guidance regarding the development of a smart grid for...
Responding to concerns about the quality and accuracy of methods used by testing laboratories to measure levels of vitamin D in the body, scientists at the...
A recently released New York City Police Department (NYPD) report designed "to aid the New York City building community by providing information on how to...
If the shiny new software on your computer or mobile phone runs without crashing, you may have another computer program to thank--a static analyzer. Static...
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have overcome a hurdle in quantum computer development, having devised a viable way to...
To explore the structure and dynamics of novel materials, the more than two dozen scientific instruments at the National Institute of Standards and Technology...
Three scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have won Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)...
Physicist Sae Woo Nam and chemist Stephan Stranick of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are among 12 federal employees who were...
Deleting two genes in mice responsible for repairing DNA strands damaged by oxidation leads to several types of tumors, providing additional evidence that such...
A tiny grid pattern has led materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Institute of Solid State Physics in Russia...