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New Reference Material to Help Get the Lead Out of Paints for Children's Products
Release Date: 10/16/2012 To help manufacturers adhere to new regulations intended to reduce the risk of lead poisoning in children, researchers at the National Institute … more
NIST, Columbia Engineering Collaborate on Inexpensive DNA Sequencing Method
Release Date: 10/02/2012 Rapid, accurate genetic sequencing soon may be within reach of every doctor's office if recent research from the National Institute of … more
New Way To Realize Pressure
Release Date: 10/02/2012 Glass-enclosed cavity for prototype pressure device. In 1643, Evangelista Torricelli, in the course … more
Near-Field Scanning Microwave Microscope: Big at the Nanoscale
Release Date: 09/28/2012 The larger of the two alternating images above shows the topography of a nanowire bundle. … more
Shaking Up Biomolecules with Light
Release Date: 09/28/2012 PML scientist Zeeshan Ahmed lowers a sample into the instrument chamber for analysis. In living organisms, biomolecules such as proteins are … more
PML central role in T-and-E standards
Release Date: 09/27/2012 Some of the kinds of radiation detectors affected by the new standards. PML researchers played a central role in the establishment of new testing … more
Register For Forensics@NIST
Release Date: 09/19/2012 Online registration is now open for Forensics@NIST 2012, a three-day symposium on cutting-edge forensic science research being … more
New NIST Screening Method Identifies 1,200 Candidate Refrigerants to Combat Global Warming
Release Date: 09/18/2012 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new computational method for identifying candidate … more
The World's Most Stable Laser
Release Date: 09/10/2012 The world’s most stable laser – with frequency variation of no more than 2 parts in 10,000 trillion – has been … more
September Workshop to Explore the Measurement Needs of the Flexible Electronics Industry
Release Date: 09/05/2012 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in concert with the FlexTech Alliance, will hold a workshop on “Flexible … more
Mars Robot, Curiosity, Tethered to NIST Measurements
Release Date: 09/05/2012 Sometimes the chain of measurement traceability—the unbroken series of links between a calibrated instrument and the official standard … more
Disseminating the Kilogram, No Strings Attached
Release Date: 08/24/2012 Patrick Abbot inspects the upper (vacuum) section of the apparatus. The impending redefinition of the kilogram presents a weighty dilemma. Methods … more
NIST Focuses on Testing Standards to Support Lab on a Chip Commercialization
Release Date: 08/08/2012 Lab on a chip (LOC) devices—microchip-size systems that can prepare and analyze tiny fluid samples with volumes ranging from a few … more
New Performance Standards for Public-Safety RF Devices
Release Date: 07/27/2012 A PASS unit and air pack are placed in an anechoic chamber for testing . First responders rely increasingly on wireless communication devices, and … more |
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