A modified version of the RoboCrane®, a unique floating platform developed by manufacturing research engineers at NIST, will be helping cleanup operations at the destroyed reactor of the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine.
Fabrication specialists at NIST are joining forces with conservators at the National Archives to protect and display a document that influenced our nation’s foundation, the 1297 Magna Carta.
Harnessing darkness for practical use, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a laser power detector coated with the world's darkest material—a forest of carbon nanotubes that reflects almost no light across the visible and part of the infrared spectrum.
The Commerce Department has published a Notice of Inquiry on 'Cybersecurity, Innovation, and Internet Policy.' The department seeks comments from all stakeholders, including the commercial, academic and civil society sectors, on measures to improve cyber security while sustaining innovation.
NIST is requesting nominations of qualified individuals for its nine existing Federal Advisory Committees.
A new draft report from NIST discusses the challenge of maintaining information system security throughout a system's life cycle, and provides an array of practices designed to help mitigate supply chain security risks.
Green laser pointers have become a popular consumer item, delivering light that's brighter to the eye than red lasers, but stories have circulated on the Web about the potential hazards of inexpensive models. Now, a team at NIST has found that in some cases green laser pointers emit high levels of invisible and potentially dangerous infrared light.
Following this guiding principle, NIST researchers have engineered a nanoscale fluidic device that functions as a miniature 'multi-tool' for working with nanoparticles-objects whose dimensions are measured in nanometers, or billionths of a meter.
In a step toward solving a long-standing problem in semiconductor manufacturing, scientists at JILA have used their unique version of a 'fine-toothed comb' to detect minute traces of contaminant molecules in the arsine gas used to make a variety of photonics devices, where a mere trace of contaminants can damage or ruin tiny devices.
Researchers at JILA have demonstrated the use of infrared laser light to quickly and precisely heat the water in "nano bathtubs" -- tiny sample containers -- for microscopy studies of the biochemistry of single molecules and nanoparticles.
Finding bodies buried by someone who wanted them to stay undiscovered can be difficult. However a new technique developed by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, can reliably detect biochemical changes in a decomposing cadaver.
NIST researchers have cultivated many thousands of nanocrystals in what looks like a pinscreen or "pin art" on silicon, a step toward reliable mass production of semiconductor nanowires for millionths-of-a-meter-scale devices such as sensors and lasers.
For the past four years, NIST has been conducting detailed performance evaluations for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of two-way, real-time, voice-translation devices designed to improve communications between the U.S. military and non-English speakers in foreign countries.
NIST has published an updated set of guidelines for developing security assessment plans and associated security control assessment procedures that are consistent with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).
Inspired by last year's successful first try at a "virtual improvement day," the Baldrige National Quality Program is planning two online events this July and August when interested parties can again recommend ways to better the program that guides organizations toward innovation and performance excellence.
Scientists at JILA, working with Italian theorists, have discovered another notable similarity between ultracold atomic gases and high-temperature superconductors, suggesting there may be a relatively simple shared explanation for equivalent behaviors of the two very different systems.
A computer security invention patented at NIST a decade ago is now poised to help safeguard patient privacy in hospitals.
Physicists at NIST have demonstrated an ion trap with a built-in optical fiber that collects light emitted by single ions, allowing quantum information stored in the ions to be measured. The advance could simplify quantum computer design and serve as a step toward swapping information between matter and light in future quantum networks.
Five NIST researchers are among the winners of the prestigious 2009 Arthur S. Flemming Awards.
Applications for NIST measurement science and engineering fellowships are now being accepted by the University of Maryland and the University of Colorado, which are administering the programs.
Sixty years ago this week, NIST dedicated the first programmable computer in U.S. history.
Leaders from the five organizations selected for the 2009 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, as well as representatives from previous Award recipients, will share their best practices at conferences on Sept. 14 in Newport Beach, Calif., and on Sept. 28 in Nashville, Tenn.
NIST has been tapped to coordinate the new interagency program, which aims to promote cybersecurity awareness and know-how across the country and among citizens of all ages.
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt are among the government and industry leaders who will participate in the symposium on “Cybersecurity and Innovation in the Information Economy,” in Washington, D.C.
NIST researchers have developed an AFM method that does more than skim the surface: It can probe subsurface conditions, including the distribution of carbon nanotubes in nanocomposite materials.
NIST is recommending revising the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act to give manufacturers the option to label some products solely with metric units.
Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, NIST scientists report progress toward developing the means for a rapid diagnostic blood test that scans for thousands of disease markers and other chemical indicators of health.
Two new NIST-developed standards to counter bomb threats will allow managers of transit centers – and other venues as well – to know exactly how a given receptacle model has been tested against blasts and precisely what a passing grade means in terms of resistance.
Faster and more efficient emergency evacuations from buildings and better communications between first responders during an emergency are among the safety improvements expected from 17 major and far-reaching building and fire code changes approved recently by the International Code Council (ICC) based on recommendations from NIST.
Eighty-three organizations are in the running for the 2010 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest recognition for organizational performance excellence through innovation and improvement.
Using a chemical trick that allows them to change the acidity of a solution almost instantly, a team at NIST has demonstrated a simple and effective technique for quantifying how the stability of nanoparticle solutions change when the acidity of their environment suddenly changes.
NIST has been designated by Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra to accelerate the federal government's secure adoption of cloud computing by leading efforts to develop standards and guidelines in close consultation and collaboration with standards bodies, the private sector, and other stakeholders.
Researchers have found that flaws in the structure of magnetic nanoscale wires play an important role in determining the operating speed of novel devices using such nanowires to store and process information.
Researchers at NIST, the University of Maryland (UM) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have developed a method to combine liposomes and particles of hydrogel in a hybrid nanoscale particle that may one day travel directly to specific cells such as tumors, pass easily though the target's cell membrane, and then slowly release a drug payload.
In an advance that sounds almost Zen, researchers at NIST and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have demonstrated a new type of pulsed laser that excels at not producing light.
Ian Spielman, a physicist at the Joint Quantum Institute, has been selected by the Maryland Academy of Sciences as the Outstanding Young Scientist for 2010. The award will be presented at a ceremony that will be held on May 20 at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore.
Two researchers at NIST have been nominated for prestigious Service to America medals. The finalists are contenders for two of the eight awards, including Federal Employee of the Year, that will be presented on September 15.
A landmark study coordinated by NIST is the first to put numbers to the effect of changing the size of fire-fighting crews responding to residential fires.
NIST has issued the final draft of its Guide for Assessing Security Controls in Federal Information Systems and Organizations and is seeking public comments.
NIST has released the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF) and its printed companion, the NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions, the much-anticipated successors to the agency's most widely cited publication of all time.
NIST has unveiled the first 'phantom' for calibrating MRI machines -- widely used medical tools that rely on magnetic fields and radio waves to visualize the body's internal structures, especially soft tissues -- that is traceable to standardized values.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that 11 university teams will square off next week in two contests designed to prove the viability of advanced technologies for robotic manufacturing automation and microrobotics.
A National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Maryland team has defined the workings of NIST technique for making liquid-filled vesicles called liposomes, "fat bubbles" that may one day be used to precisely deliver drugs within the body. The new insight could help make a microchip-scale liposome manufacturing process practical.
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Georgia Tech have demonstrated that atomic scale moiré patterns, an interference pattern that appears when two or more grids are overlaid slightly askew, can be used to measure how sheets of graphene are stacked and reveal areas of strain.
Using neutron beams and atomic-force microscopes, a team of university researchers working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may have resolved a 10-year-old question about an exotic class of "artificial muscles"—how do they work? Their results could influence the design of future specialized robotic tools.
Doctors may soon be able to diagnose lung cancer more effectively thanks to new pill-sized ellipsoids developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The objects mimic the density of tumors. NIST researchers hope that the mimics will help scientists increase the accuracy of computed tomography (CT) scans.
Using a pair of exotic techniques including a molecular-scale version of ice fishing, NIST has developed methods to measure accurately the length of "nanopores," the tiny channels found in cell membranes. The "molecular rulers" could serve as a way to calibrate tailor-made nanopores for applications such as rapid DNA analysis.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed the first "dimmer switch" for a superconducting circuit linking a quantum bit (qubit) and a quantum bus. The NIST switch is a new type of control device that can "tune" interactions between these components and potentially could speed up development of a practical quantum computer.
On April 26 the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issues the results of a multi-institutional landmark national study on the effects of firefighter staffing levels and crew arrival times on residential firefighting operations.
NIST scientists have developed the world’s most efficient single photon detector, which is able to count individual particles of light traveling through fiber optic cables with roughly 99 percent efficiency. The team's efforts could bring improvements to secure electronic communication, advanced quantum computation and the measurement of optical power.
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