NIST research on quantum computing and communications includes a recent demonstration of a device that can count about 20,000 photons (the smallest units of light) per second. Here, NIST physicist Sae Woo Nam Sae Woo Nam holds a circuit used to amplify signals from the new photon detector.
A new NIST report recommends five main approaches for reducing software vulnerabilities, described in lay terms by NIST computer scientist Paul E. Black.