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National Institute of Standards and Technology Press Releases

855 Press Releases

Published on January 4, 2024 - 12:00 GMT

Biden-Harris Administration Announces CHIPS Preliminary Terms with Microchip Technology to Strengthen Supply Chain Resilience for ...

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce and Microchip Technology Inc. have reached a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms (PMT) to provide approximately $162 million in federal incentives under the CHIPS …

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Published on January 3, 2024 - 12:00 GMT

NIST Tool Will Make Math-Heavy Research Papers Easier to View Online

For decades, scientists creating papers that feature mathematical formulas have generally used LaTeX, a language designed to produce printed pages in static form, such as PDFs. A tool developed at NIST can turn these papers into web pages, which can be …

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Published on January 3, 2024 - 12:00 GMT

From Diamonds in Your Computer to Safer Medications, NIST Researchers Look at What’s Next for 2024 and Beyond

Melinda Kleczynski is measuring tiny parts of antibodies to help promote safety and innovation in drug development. Credit: R. Wilson/NIST We asked some of NIST’s postdoctoral researchers — early career staff who have recently completed their Ph.D.s — for …

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Published on January 2, 2024 - 12:00 GMT

NIST Awards Funding to 8 Universities to Advance Standards Education

Credit: Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has made eight awards totaling $1,156,973 to support standards education in undergraduate and graduate curricula. …

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Published on January 1, 2024 - 12:00 GMT

NIST Hosts Colloquium Speaker on Autonomous Vehicles

Credit: CTL On January 18, 2024, NIST welcomed Dr. Paul Perrone, Founder and CEO of Perrone Robotics, Inc., to give a NIST Colloquium presentation on “Autonomous Vehicles: The World’s Most Complicated Technical Problem.” During his visit, Perrone had …

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Published on January 1, 2024 - 12:00 GMT

NIST Launches Exploratory Digital Twins Study

Credit: CTL Digital Twins represent a growing global marketplace valued at over $8.6 billion in 2022 and forecasted to reach $138 billion by 2030. The NIST internal Strategic and Emerging Research Initiative (SERI) program has provided Fiscal Year 2024 ( …

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Published on December 28, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

Auld Lang ‘Time’: One of the Country’s Timekeepers Makes Sure We Ring in The New Year at Just the Right Second

The new year is a great time to think about the passage of time. Here at NIST, we’re always keeping an eye on the clock. We keep official time for the U.S., which part of the worldwide weighted average called Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Credit: …

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Published on December 22, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

Live Christmas Trees Affect Indoor Air Chemistry, NIST Researchers Find

NIST researchers placed a common type of Christmas tree in a sealed chamber for 17 days to monitor and measure the chemicals it emits. These chemicals, called volatile organic compounds (VOCs), give that pine smell and can react with ozone to form …

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Published on December 20, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

NIST Researchers Help Design a Prototype Quantum Computer

Researchers have created a prototype quantum computer with a record number of qubits—the analog of bits in an ordinary computer—capable of performing logical operations. The feat promises to be an important step towards building a practical quantum …

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Published on December 20, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

NIST’s Ultra-small, Shape-shifting GEMS Offer an Easier and Cheaper way to improve MRI Imaging

Microscopic magnetic probes that change shape in response to their environment may greatly enhance magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, producing the probes, which are still experimental and have not yet been used in humans, has required access to a …

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Published on December 19, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

NIST Calls for Information to Support Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence

Credit: everything possible/Shutterstock GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) that will assist in the implementations of its responsibilities …

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Published on December 19, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

NIST Awards Nearly $3 Million to Small Businesses to Advance Semiconductor Manufacturing, Drug Development and More

This colorized micrograph reveals thinner (yellow) and thicker (blue) regions of a 100% polyester fabric used in face masks. The NIST SBIR program supports research at small businesses such as developing a method to measure the effectiveness of face masks …

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Published on December 19, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

A Scientific Christmas Tale

Credit: NIST ’Twas the night before Christmas; NIST staff had gone home. Our director was left to reflect all alone. She thought about NIST and the breadth of its work, from AI to fire to even the quark. Our impact, she knew, was broad and widespread, and …

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Published on December 14, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

The METIS Data Exchange Ecosystem Seeks Your Input

NIST and CHIPS request comments on the draft of Special Publication 1000-2 ipd, Building a Metrology Exchange to Innovate in Semiconductors (METIS). This publication presents the vision for ensuring that the direct results of federally funded scientific …

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Published on December 13, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

Standing Up for Scientific Integrity: A Q&A With Writer-Director José Ricardo García on the New Film ‘The AD-X2 Controversy’

José Ricardo García directs actors (from left to right) Evan Casey (playing Allen Astin), Joel Snyder (playing Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks) and Adam Cooley (playing Ritchie). Credit: NIST In the 1940s, a battery additive called AD-X2 hit the …

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Published on December 11, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

NIST Offers Draft Guidance on Evaluating a Privacy Protection Technique for the AI Era

Evaluating any claim to differential protection requires examining every component of the differential privacy pyramid. Its top level contains the most direct measures of privacy guarantees, including epsilon, which is a numerical value of how strong the …

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Published on December 11, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

Biden-Harris Administration and BAE Systems, Inc., Announce CHIPS Preliminary Terms to Support Critical U.S. National Security ...

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce and BAE Systems Electronic Systems, a business unit of BAE Systems, Inc., have signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms (PMT) to provide approximately $35 …

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Published on December 7, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

NIST Releases for Public Comment Draft Guidance on March-In Rights

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released for public comment its Draft Interagency Guidance Framework for Considering the Exercise of March-In Rights, a tool to help agencies …

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Published on December 7, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

NIST Develops Human Urine Standard for More Accurate Diagnosis of Kidney Disease

NIST bioanalytical chemist Ashley Beasley Green leads the urine albumin standardization program and developed the standard reference material (SRM) for albumin in human urine. The SRM will improve the accuracy of measurements for diagnosing and managing …

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Published on December 6, 2023 - 12:00 GMT

Fellowship and Fearlessness: Carrying On the Legacy of Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

In a time when computers were used by experts, Grace Hopper worked on computer languages that could operate using words, making them more accessible. Credit: Lynn Gilbert/National Portrait Gallery As NIST technology researchers, we are inspired by Rear …

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