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LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA —U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and Mayor Jerry Sanders led a groundbreaking ceremony in La Jolla, Calif., today for two new
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama today announced his intent to nominate physicist Patrick Gallagher to be the 14th director of the U.S. Commerce Department's
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a new request for "white papers" that outline or help define potential new funding
Just as health-food manufacturers work on developing the best possible sodium substitutes for low-salt diets, physicists at the National Institute of Standards
Security personnel need to be able to find explosive materials and persons who have been in contact with them. To aid such searches, the National Institute of
A chemist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has demonstrated a relatively simple, inexpensive method for detecting and measuring
If you wanted to know if your child had a fever or be certain that the roast in the oven was thoroughly cooked, you would, of course, use a thermometer that you
The Baldrige National Quality Program recently published "blinded" (anonymous) scoring data on 1,033 applicants for the Baldrige National Quality Award during
Two publications from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) describe new capabilities for authentication systems using smart cards or other
The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has sent two experts to California to assist in collecting data on structural
High-performance optical networks are susceptible to degrading effects that can change over time. Knowledge of the degradation can be used to diagnose the
Airline travelers are used to being instructed to turn off computers and cell phones during takeoffs and landings as a precaution against interfering with the
Chemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have issued a new certified reference material--a standardized sample backed by NIST--for
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued three new certified reference materials for soil. Intended for use as controls in testing
The sandwich recipe recently concocted by scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may prove tasty for computer chip
A new publication that recommends best practices for the next generation of portable biometric acquisition devices--Mobile ID--has been published by the
On Oct. 6, 2009, the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) will sponsor a technology transfer and commercialization showcase for bio-imaging
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA) are cosponsoring the Biometric Consortium Conference 2009 on
In what may prove to be a major development for scientists in fields ranging from forensics to quantum communications, researchers at the National Institute of
The century-old challenge of transporting acetylene may have been solved in principle by a team of scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and
GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that EnerNex Corporation, Knoxville, Tenn
Dr. Craig Brown, an instrument scientist for the Disk Chopper Spectrometer at the NIST Center for Neutron Research, will receive a PECASE award for showing
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its final version of a publication that represents a major step toward building a unified
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) have published a report on the inaugural meeting