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(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is teaming up with Willow Garage, a Silicon Valley robotics research and design firm, to launch an...
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(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is soliciting nominations of middle-school science teachers from eligible U.S. public school districts or...
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(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- In a paradox typical of the quantum world, scientists at JILA, a joint institute of the University of Colorado at Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and...
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(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- President Obama’s fiscal year (FY) 2012 budget submitted to Congress for the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) proposes a...
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(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Beginning March 1, 2011, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will no longer provide calibration services for mercury thermometers. The cessation...
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Electron microscopes are among the most widely used scientific and medical tools for studying and understanding a wide range of materials, from biological tissue to miniature magnetic devices, at...
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(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Cherry blossoms won’t be the only things flowering in Washington, D.C., during the first week in April. Quality, innovation, and performance excellence will be in full...
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(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- On Jan. 4, President Obama signed the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, which provides several important updates to the funding, programs, and leadership of...
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For website owners and bloggers, there is a new widget from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that will keep web pages right on time.
Web “widgets” are small application...
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Is the expansion of the universe accelerating for some unknown reason? This is one of the mysteries plaguing astrophysics, and somewhere in distant galaxies are yet-unseen supernovae that may hold...