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News and Updates
All In One: NIST Develops Single Device to Realize Electrical Standards
NIST Team Develops Technique to Stabilize the Phase of Weak Light Signals in Quantum Network
NIST Study Aims to Improve Utility of the Scanning Electron Microscope
Blog Posts
Shedding Light: How NIST’s Light Database Helps Bring You Computer Chips, Welded Steel and More
Atomic spectroscopy helps to bring us many things we use every day, but without updated information, it would be harder for scientists and experts to create these things. That’s where a NIST atomic spectra database comes in.
Pirouetting Molecules Can Help Us Learn About the History of the Universe
One of the World’s Roundest Objects Is Helping to Build a Better Mass Measurement
