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The cloud computing research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting public comments on a draft of its most complete
Nanoparticles of silver are being found increasingly in the environment—and in environmental science laboratories. Because they have a variety of useful
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Physicist Charles Clark of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been named a co-director of the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a
The NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) is pleased to announce the publication of its 2010 Report. This Report updates the state of the CNST
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James M. Turner, deputy director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has named three distinguished experts from industry and academia