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NIST Launches New Blog

Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director Willie E. May launches the NIST blog with an inaugural post Welcome to the brand new

HID Lamps: Getting Brighter Faster

NIST has been issued a patent for a novel method to improve the performance and utility of the sort of high-intensity discharge (HID) lamps used for stadium and

'Squeezed' Motion in a Massive Object

Everyone expects objects at the atomic scale to follow the weird rules of quantum mechanics. But in the past few years, scientists at NIST and elsewhere have

OSAC December 2015 Newsletter

The Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) has released its December 2015 monthly newsletter to communicate program status