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RNA Structure and Dynamics: The One-Two Punch in the Fight Against COVID-19

February 17, 2021

We are all well aware of COVID-19, and by now most people have seen pictures of the spike protein that forms the “handshake” interaction between virus and host cells and is the basis of two new vaccines. The COVID-19 virus is made of RNA, which manufactures the spike protein and all the other

Alicia, Bob, Carrie and Dave working in a factory equipped with augmented reality. Hazards and detours are shown as Carrie would see them through her augmented reality headset. Machines display digital info. Bob checks a machine in error. Alicia watches the scene on her computer screen seeing the same digital information on her screen.

Industrial XR: Fulfilling Human Potential in Smart Factories

July 9, 2020

Bill Bernstein, Teodor Vernica

Step into the factory of the future. Alicia, an operations manager, sits at her workstation viewing a digitally enhanced video feed of the facility using cameras installed in strategic locations. Wearing safety gear, a maintenance engineer named Bob checks his tablet for the next machine to fix

Tytus Mak sitting at his desk and while colleague Arun Moorthy and he look at a computer screen

Shaping the Future of the NIST Mass Spectral Library

June 9, 2020

Tytus Mak

When one thinks of mass spectral libraries — well, let’s be honest here, the very idea of mass spectral libraries will never cross most people’s minds, even most scientists’. But that’s true for most of the seemingly esoteric things that many of us at the National Institute of Standards and

How the JFK Assassination Bullets Were Digitally Preserved at NIST

April 13, 2020

Robert M. Thompson

They were long, round-nosed rifle bullets. Their copper metal jackets had the dull color of a worn penny, giving testimony to their age. The gun-barrel rifling impressions on their sides were typical of a bullet fired from a military weapon: four grooves and the resulting ridges called lands — all

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RNA Structure and Dynamics: The One-Two Punch in the Fight Against COVID-19

Industrial XR: Fulfilling Human Potential in Smart Factories

Shaping the Future of the NIST Mass Spectral Library

How the JFK Assassination Bullets Were Digitally Preserved at NIST