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A NIST team is at work on what promises to be one of the world's most accurate methods for generating a specified number of photons, and has devised a method to
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The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $2.2 million in Phase I and Phase II Small
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has contributed to the development of a new standard for defining the performance of micromechanical
Digital evidence, one of the fastest growing areas of forensic science, will now have its own subcommittee in the National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are working to improve ballistics matching methods with assistance from the Prince George's
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