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  • Summer/Fall 2004 Main features—NIST Unveils New Mini Atomic Clock, Fingerprint Devices Highly Accurate, House-to-House Fire Spread, Improving Diagnosis Of Heart Attacks, Scientists Create New Matter Form, Dash of Nanotubes Quashes Swelling, Nanomaterial Yields Cool Results, New Process Preserves Transplant Tissues/Organs, Teleporting Quantum States from One Atom to Another, Something’s Fishy about New NIST Food Standard, Digital Evidence, AIDS Database, Supply Chain Standards

  • Fall 2003/Winter 2004 Main features—A 3-D View for Tissue Engineering, Printing Arrays For Flat Displays, Chip Ruler Uses Scattered X-rays, A Bose-Einstein 'Super Molecule', Radio Waves 'See' Moisture in Walls, Seven Receive Baldrige Honors, Software Opens the Door for Natural Ventilation, Detoxifying Sediments with Electrons and UV Light, Using Artificial Cells as Tiny Test Tubes, With Neutrons, Partners Pursue the Scent of Success, Digital Cinema, Rescue Robots, Superconducting Cables

  • Summer 2003 Main features—Mimicking Growth Of Dizzy Dendrites, Progress Toward a ‘Super Molecule’, Software to Cool Summer’s Heat, Improving Control of Quantum Dot, New Network for First Responders, Tool Measures Nanoscale Forces, Tooth, Heal Thyself, Novel Spectroscopic Method Detects Terrorist Threats, Tiny Bubbles Make a Chemist Feel Fine, Peanut Butter Standard Spreads Quality, Military Communications, Advanced Technologies, Miniature Mix-ups

  • Winter/Spring 2003 Main features—Dual IDs Urged for Border Checks, Better Chemistry Through Nanorings, NIST Investigates Nightclub Fire, Web Site Features Tiny Technologies, Using Ocean Color To Measure Carbon, NIST FY 2003 Funding Approved, Building a Better Mixer, 'Hairs' to Better Drug Testing, NIST Helps U.S. Capitol with 'Overhead' Problem, 'Ice Dancing' with Lasers, Co-op Corner

  • Fall 2002 Main features—Using DNA As a Cancer Biomarker, Law Gives NIST New Disaster Role, Device Lets Blind Feel Images, New Tools Analyze Degraded DNA, 2002 Baldrige Award Winners, Glass SRM May be Boon to Gumshoes, Gene ‘Knock Out’ Improves Transplant Prospects, Rescue Robots Compete on NIST Test Arena, How ‘Frustrated Magnets’ Control Themselves

  • Summer 2002 Main features—'Hot' Movies Help Optimize Sensors, Solar Energy Home Runs on Ribbons, Circuits Sized Without Contact, Ion Beam Analyses Trace Quantities, Getting the Drop on Fire Quenchers, Building Plastic Biochip Devices, Computers Based on Ion Traps?, Chocolate Standard Raises the 'Bar' on Accuracy, Bugs in Your Software Vibrations May Warn of Structural Collapses

  • Winter/Spring 2002 Main features—Nobel Prize Team Earns New Honor, Cold Wave Hits Membrane Study, Bement Testifies On WTC Proposal, ATP Announces New Competition, Service Calibrates Excimer Lasers, Corn-to-Plastics Plant Opens, Imaging Tool Has X-ray 'Eyes', Protecting Soldiers with Gas Mask Tests, The Y's Have it—The Right Stuff for DNA Tests, Helping Manufacturers Get a Grip, Co-op Corner

  • Fall 2001 Main features—Ultrathin Wires Made Defect-free, Composite Pipes Carry Oil and Gas, Atomic Clock Uses Optical Frequency, Corrective Lenses For UV Lithography, Designer Polymers To Aid Recycling, Liaison Office Focuses on Autos, New Guides Explain Europe’s Standards , Ferris Wheel Maker Rides High with MEP, Smarter Smoke Detectors, NIST Excels in Wine Testing, “Black Box” Enhances Medical Decision Making, Co-op Corner

  • Spring 2001 Main features— Nanoscale Views Of Atom Structure, Video Standard Aids Radiologists, Integrating Optics With Electronics, When Atoms Do The 'Bosenova', Four Firms Get Baldrige Awards, A Better Look at Fine Details, Coming to a Theater Near You?, Turning Seaweed into a Scientific Tool, Simulating a Hurricane, Power in a Small Package, Co-op Corner
  • Winter 2001 Main features—3-D Matrix Makes Immune Cells, Standard Advances Parallel Computing, Radiology Tools Enhance Care, Going Fishing in the Desert, Flushing with Success in Montana, Catching Computer Crooks with a ... Library, Hats Off to NIST Wind Tunnels, Rijndael Soon May Protect Your Data, New Technique Finds Lost Data, New Tools May Cut Construction Costs, Co-op Corner
  • Summer 2000 Main features—Best in the World Clock Debuts, Making Car Engines the 21st-Century Way, Smokeview: Best Show Yet for Fire, Candy Is More Dandy When the Shipper Is Quicker, Fighting Crime with Gunpowder Analysis, Match-Making Software Will Help Finger Criminals, Tell It to Your PC, Doc, Neutrons and the Beginning of Time, Helping Concrete Go with the Flow, Simulations Look and Feel Real, Co-op Corner
  • Fall 1999 Main features—Modeling Blends Science with Art, A Laser Ruler For Paint Films, NIST Helps Ensure Good X-ray Vision, Helping the Blind Read E-Books, Baldrige Winners Share Quality Tips, Meteorite Sports Supernova Dust, Natural Constants Get New Values, Co-op Corner
  • Spring/Summer 1999 Main features—Trace Gas Method Boosts Sensitivity, Proteins Hold Key to Curing Diseases, Atomic Optics: When 3+0=4, Bette Reference Detectors, Sensor Predicts Electrical Failures, Round Molecules Find Many Uses, Co-op Corner
  • Winter 1999 Main features—Physicists Build Better Atom Laser, Calibration Service For Prostate Seeds, News Round Up, Molding the Future of Auto Bodies, Medal of Science Awarded to Cahn, Magnetic Squeeze Forms Metal Parts, Mini CAT Scans Check Out Circuits, Co-op Corner
  • Fall 1998 Main features—X-Rays Shine Light on Enzyme Secrets, Genetic Bar Coding Speeds DNA Testing, Versatile Crystals Find Markets, 79 R&D Projects Get ATP Awards, Smaller Chips Need Even Smaller Rulers, Better Detectors With Microgravity, Co-op Corner
  • Spring/Summer 1998 Main features—Surface Damage From Electrons, Spindles Cut Costs As Well as Holes, Secure E-Commerce, Cubic Molecules Don't Stack Up, FQA Act Extension, Super Insulation Keeps Its Cool, No More Yucky Chemical Build Up, Co-op Corner
  • Winter 1998 Main features—New Model Tracks Smoke Plumes, Polarized Light Improves Displays, Composite Towers Offer Cost Savings, Tiny Portals to DNA Sequencing, Cracking Up Over Dental Drilling, Service Sector Technology Needs, Physicists Build Quietest of Places, Co-op Corner
  • Fall 1997 Main features—NIST Physicist Shares Nobel Prize, Kammer Confirmed As NIST Director, New Material Likes The Layered Look, Awards Speed Up R&D Process, Shorts, A Fresh Look at Train Fire Safety, Machines Team Up for Waste Removal, Composite Beams for Better Bridges, Co-op Corner
  • Summer 1997 Main features—DNA decoding, kinder, gentler nanoscale viewer, manufacturing testbed, precision parts, ATP action plan, magnetic data storage
  • Spring 1997 Main features—fitting more data on CDs, mapping molecules with infrared, heat detectors, the Baldrige stock index, molecular modeling, mini display technology, mapping material stress with neutrons
  • Winter 1997 Main features—splicing HDTV signals, optical tweezers, virtual reality tool kit, mitochondrial DNA reference material, manufacturing extension now nationwide, crystal-drawing software
  • Fall 1996 Main features—holograms boost light quality, magnetic recording and storage, portable light source and detector, firms win Baldrige Award, microsensor arrays, new lead SRM, x-ray microcalorimeter
  • Spring/Summer 1996 Main features—extension program success stories, electron counter, acoustic wave transducer, Schroedinger's cat experiments, revamped website, and x-ray inspection tool.
  • Winter 1996 Main features—microjet printing, touch probe errors, electron beam moire, mammography standards, and molecular recognition technology
  • Fall 1995 Main features—blood cell bioreactor, scanning capacitance microscope, fire safety of tall spaces, atom lithography, metalmaking through modeling, and reference data catalog

Created: July 2000
Last updated: April 3, 2007
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