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Finding PFAS Wherever They’re Hiding
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What is time? (Video)
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Safe, Efficient, Reliable: New Science in the Fight Against Killer Drugs

Learn about what NIST is doing for the Champlain Towers South Collapse in Surfside, Florida.

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Einstein, Time, and Very Small Things - with Jun Ye
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Taking Measure blog

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What’s in a Name? The Magnetic Weber 

Dr. Wilhelm Weber gets the distinction of having the unit of magnetic flux, the weber, named in his honor. Magnetic flux measures the total magnetic field that
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Cybersecurity Careers Go Beyond Coding

You don’t have to be a coder or have a technical background to work in cybersecurity. Learn about the career stories of three of our NIST cybersecurity

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