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Last week, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the United
One day in the future when you need medical care, someone will examine you, diagnose the problem, remove some of your body’s healthy cells, and then use them to
STEM is STELLAR! In November 2019, NIST’s Gillian Nave and Jacob Ward brought celebrations of Mercury’s transit (the point where Mercury passes between the
Closing in on a clear picture: NIST's June Lau, in collaboration with Brookhaven National Lab and Euclid Techlabs, is giving us a freeze-frame look at the
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have developed an optical switch that routes light from one
A new research effort at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) aims to address a pervasive issue in our data-driven society: a lack of
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Commerce announced today that six organizations will be presented with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Baldrige
In April 2019, NIST's Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) division - in partnership with the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), IBM, and Nok
The Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science Registry serves as a trusted repository of high-quality, technically sound standards
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NIST invites comments on Draft NISTIR 8214A , Towards NIST Standards for Threshold Schemes for Cryptographic Primitives: A Preliminary Roadmap, which presents a
The Economic Development Agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and First Responder Network Authority are issuing a national challenge to
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In a world full of cameras, video understanding – the ability to accurately interpret what is happening in the footage – is likely to become the next revolution
In an effort to make hair comparison a more useful technique for investigating crimes, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
En’Urga Inc., an advanced diagnostic equipment company, recently found success with a Small Business Innovation Research award from the National Institute of
Summary A Federal Register Notice (FRN) announces a Request for Comments on Draft FIPS 186-5 and Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-186. NIST seeks
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland – The Technology Partnerships Office (TPO) hosted a NIST-wide discussion with experienced venture capitalists about how to pitch
When Jorge Campbell, an engineer from Argentina’s National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI), visited the National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released Draft NISTIR 8269, A Taxonomy and Terminology of Adversarial Machine Learning, for
To improve approaches for analyzing very large quantities of data, computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have
By cleverly manipulating two properties of a neutron beam, NIST scientists and their collaborators have created a powerful probe of materials that have complex