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Taking Measure

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Metrology

A Scientific Christmas Tale

’Twas the night before Christmas; NIST staff had gone home. Our director was left to reflect all alone. She thought about NIST and the breadth of its work, from

The Twelve Days of Metric

As we approach the end of 2022, we wanted to share with our readers a NISTified version of a classic seasonal song about a topic that is near and dear to our

Top 10 Tips for Teaching the Metric System

Calling all teachers, parents and students. It’s easy to learn the metric system — or, as it’s more formally called, the International System of Units (SI)

Everyday Time and Atomic Time: Part 5

This is part 5 in a series. Read part 1 , part 2 , part 3 and part 4 . The Leap Second Solution When atomic clocks were developed in the 1950s, scientists

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