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American manufacturing is at a noteworthy and exciting convergence of three powerful trends that can provide an opportunity for growth in industry. • Traditional manufacturing as we’ve known it...
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Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new standard reference material (SRM), the first such measurement tool to enable hospitals to link important...
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Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of North Carolina have demonstrated a new design for an instrument, a “instrumented nanoscale indenter...
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(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) authors and CRC Press have arranged to give all attendees at the 2013 North American Coordinate Metrology Association...
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Even though modern industrial robots are becoming more nimble and capable, they still need to get a good grip on things, literally, with the equivalent of hands that are as agile and dexterous as...
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Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new microscopy technique that uses a process similar to how an old tube television produces a...
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A technique developed several years ago at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for improving optical microscopes now has been applied to monitoring the next generation of...
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For the first time, scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new type of lens that bends and focuses ultraviolet (UV) light in such an...
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(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is hosting and co-organizing the 2013 North American Coordinate Metrology Association (NACMA) meeting, Aug. 27–...
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Detecting greenhouse gases in the atmosphere could soon become far easier with the help of an innovative technique developed by a team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),...