Physics

View from inside a square tunnel looking out into a dark space. Near the end of the tunnel, two small devices are attached to the floor.

Safer Flight Takeoff and Landing

Just about every airspeed sensor in the United States can trace its calibration back to a wind tunnel at NIST.

Quality Satellite Imagery

NIST's calibrations enable space innovation and help U.S. companies lead in the “commercial space race.”

Andrew Novick poses leaning on a rack of servers and other electrical equipment.

Precision Time for All — Internet Version

NIST provides official U.S. time over the internet so that users and customers can have a traceable, unbiased reference.

Precision Time for All — Broadcast Version

For more than a century, NIST radio stations have made the precise time available for free to everyone in the United States.

Alejandra Collopy wears safety glasses as she works the lab. She is surrounded by various pieces of equipment and many hanging wires.

Fair Stock Trades

U.S. stock markets are required to synchronize to NIST time.

Nuclear Security

NIST ensures that radiation detectors and sensors are working as intended and that their capabilities are understood.

A worker in a white coverall with a yellow apron leans over a counter, using a small instrument on a flat blue material.

Access to Nanofabrication Technology

The NIST NanoFab provides researchers from industry, academia and other government labs with rapid access to state-of-the-art nanotechnology fabrication and measurement tools.

Next-Generation MRIs

NIST's imaging "phantoms" support the quantitative analyses of images from MRIs.

Reliable Vaccine Storage

NIST's study of temperature control for vaccine storage and transport led to a significant reduction in vaccine waste.

NIST Works For You

Physics

Safer Flight Takeoff and Landing

Quality Satellite Imagery

Precision Time for All — Internet Version