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Construction is nearly complete on one of the world's more unusual precision measurement facilities: A 50 meter horizontal smokestack located on NIST's
Registration: No Charge Location: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Md. NIST, known for advancing measurement science, standards and
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will hold its second Privacy Engineering Workshop in San Jose, Calif., Sept. 15 and 16, 2014. The
Using a relatively straightforward technique, a team of NIST researchers has created what may be the most highly enriched silicon currently being produced. The
To make a better optical fiber for transmitting laser beams, the first idea that comes to mind is probably not a nice long hydrogen bath. And yet, scientists
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are working to improve ballistics matching methods with assistance from the Prince George's
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a pas de deux of atomic ions that combines the fine choreography of
The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and several partners today are kicking off the year-long Global City
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today opened a competition to award new cooperative funding agreements for its Hollings Manufacturing
Crash-test dummies, yarn-spinning machines and steel girders in bridges. What do they have in common? Look inside them all and you find transducers, devices
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued for public comment a draft update of its primary guide to assessing the security and
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will hold a workshop on the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, Oct. 29 and
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced a new competition for planning awards to support industry-driven consortia in
A hidden hazard may lurk beneath many of the roughly 156,000 gas stations across the United States. The hazard is corrosion in parts of underground gas storage
The seventh annual "Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security" conference will be held September 23-24, 2014, in Washington, D
This week, experts are meeting at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Hoboken to discuss how communities can prepare themselves to minimize the impacts of
The world's most widely used and trusted resource for identifying mass spectra, the "fingerprints" of molecules, has undergone a major expansion, according to
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have demonstrated a new design for
A research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working with the Cleveland Clinic, has demonstrated a dramatically improved
Airline passengers have already said bon voyage to the controversial backscatter x-ray security scanners, pulled from U.S. airports in 2013 over concerns about
To support the fair sale of gaseous hydrogen as a vehicle fuel, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a
Forensic DNA analysts and other interested stakeholders are invited to participate in a free NIST webinar on validation concepts and resources on Aug. 6, 2014
For nearly four decades, scientists have suspected that persistent organic pollutants (POPs) contributed to a green turtle's susceptibility to the virus that
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued for public review and comment a draft report summarizing 65 challenges that cloud computing
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)'s primary external advisory board today released a report calling for the agency to increase its staff