This automobile-sized black box is the heart of NIST’s Ultraviolet Spectral Comparator Facility, which holds the instruments used to calibrate UV detectors. Credit: B. Hayes/NIST Ultraviolet (UV) light may seem like an invisible hero, quietly disinfecting …
Credit: Adobe Stock, C. Blasioli/NIST GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced an open competition for a new Manufacturing USA institute focused on the use of artificial …
Credit: DARPA This week, the Department of Commerce announced that Dr. Dev Palmer has joined CHIPS for America’s Research and Development (R&D) Office as the director of the National Advanced Packaging Manufacturing Program (NAPMP). As Director of the …
Right now, the U.S. and Germany have different approaches to defining, or “realizing” as the researchers call it, the kilogram. Here, NIST researcher Darine Haddad looks on as German researcher Beatrice Rodiek places a sphere on NIST’s highly accurate …
Media Contact: Madeline Broas, madeline.broas [at] chips.gov (madeline[dot]broas[at]chips[dot]gov). Today, as part of the Investing in America tour, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce and GlobalWafers America, …
Speakers: Credit: Kristi Rice Kristi Rice Teacher Spotsylvania High School 2021 Presidential Cybersecurity Education Award Winner Davina Pruitt-Mentle Lead for Academic Engagement NICE Synopsis: On June 20, 2024, The Department of Education announced a …
Credit: A. Boss/NIST In honor of Plastic Free July, we celebrated the event by spotlighting NIST researcher Ashley Hartwell, an early-career engineer. Ashley studies ways to reduce waste and recycle efficiently. Tell us a little about yourself. I am …
Today, the Department of Commerce and Natcast, the operator of the National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC), announced the processes for selecting the first three research and development (R&D) facilities funded through the CHIPS and Science Act …
Media Contact: Madeline Broas, madeline.broas [at] chips.gov (madeline[dot]broas[at]chips[dot]gov). The U.S. Department of Commerce today announced that industry veteran and current Senior Relationship Director in the CHIPS Program Office, Lynelle McKay …
Antibodies are an important part of our bodies’ natural adaptive immune response, but they can also be made into medicine that targets specific parts of the body. Credit: ART-ur/Shutterstock The most important thing I remember from being a NIST intern last …
Credit: A. Kim/NIST Today, as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Commerce issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) to open a competition for new research and development (R&D) activities that will establish and …
Decades of research have gone into understanding tornadoes and how they impact buildings. Now that new understanding is making its way into building codes. Credit: B. Hayes/NIST Sirens blared across Joplin, Missouri, on a spring afternoon in 2011, just 23 …
NIST chemist Brent Wilson passes ground hemp through a sieve to produce a reference material with a consistent particle size. Credit: NIST The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is now selling a hemp reference material that will help …
An extremely cold gas of strontium atoms is trapped in a web of light known as an optical lattice. The atoms are held in an ultrahigh-vacuum environment, which means there is almost no air or other gases present. This vacuum helps preserve the atoms' …
Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce and Rogue Valley Microdevices (RVM) have signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms (PMT) to provide up to $6.7 million in proposed direct funding under the …
Credit: CTL NIST will hold a virtual workshop on Technical Language Processing on 24-25 September 2024. Online registration is $33.00 USD and is available via the workshop webpage. The two-day virtual event brings together industry, government, and …
Credit: CTL At the 2024 Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM) in Washington, DC, NIST researchers Serghei Drozdov and Mehdi Dadfarnia gave a 90-minute tutorial on using the NIST-developed open-sourced Python package, SimPROCESD, for the …
Credit: CTL NIST researchers from the Communications Technology Laboratory's Smart Connected Systems Division recently hosted representatives from the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation (HTDC), one of 51 NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership …
Credit: N. Hanacek/NIST GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has signed a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to begin …
In Stephen Eckel’s lab at NIST, he gets to work with some of the coldest stuff in the universe. Credit: NIST Temperature is probably the second most measured physical quantity in our modern world — after time. When I wake up in the morning, the first …
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