Chad Boutin

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At Earth from a Distance

Quick, think of a four-letter name beginning with “N” for a federal agency involved in space science.

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A Crazier Crazy Straw for Science

July 28, 2020

What do the loopy straws that children like to sip drinks through have in common with cutting-edge science? Ask Ryan Murphy and his colleagues at the National

A woman's face appears six times. One time has no mask. The other 5 instances she wears a different digitally applied mask shape. The masks are blue or black and cover some variation of the mouth and nose region.

NIST Launches Studies into Masks’ Effect on Face Recognition Software

July 27, 2020

Now that so many of us are covering our faces to help reduce the spread of COVID-19, how well do face recognition algorithms identify people wearing masks? The

An artist's conception shows the algorithms as a group of bike racers on a mountain road, closing in on the finish line over the next hill.

NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Program Enters ‘Selection Round’

July 22, 2020

The race to protect sensitive electronic information against the threat of quantum computers has entered the home stretch. After spending more than three years

NIST Kick-Starts ‘Threshold Cryptography’ Development Effort

July 7, 2020

A new publication by cryptography experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) proposes the direction the technical agency will take to

Two vertical strings of electrons form magnons. Spin waves passing through the left magnon string are larger than those passing through the right, indicating the difference between an on and off state.

MIT, NIST Create First Room-Temp ‘Magnon Switch’ With Industrially Useful Properties

June 15, 2020

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have demonstrated a potentially new

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