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When Standardized Data Can Help Save Lives

When you email a friend, you don’t have to worry about whether they use Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo or some other email provider. You just enter their email address, write your message and hit send. The reason this works is that there are layers of standardized protocols that all the email clients have adopted so emails can seamlessly fly between users regardless of which client they choose. Many other

MMSD Staff Release Version 5.2 of SRD31, Phase Equilibria Diagrams (PED)

Reliable Flow for Chip Makers

NIST Helps Next-Generation Cell Technology See Past the Greenery