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Four at NIST Honored with Flemming Awards | NIST
February 3, 2025
This article reports on four National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) employees who received Flemming Awards for

NIST’s FY 2015 Budget Request Focuses on Innovation, Expands Technology Transfer and Economic Growth Priorities | NIST
February 3, 2025
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has requested a budget increase for fiscal year 2015

Portable Frequency Comb Rolls Out of the Lab | NIST
February 3, 2025
NIST researchers have introduced a portable optical frequency comb that sets a new benchmark for portable timekeeping precision.

Autonomous Atom Assembly of Nanostructures using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope | NIST
February 3, 2025
NIST researchers have successfully demonstrated a new protocol for building nanostructures by automatically placing individual atoms using a

Reading the Secrets of Ancient Light | NIST
February 3, 2025
NIST researchers have developed a new quantum sensor array designed to study the faint light left over from

Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology Awards $50 Million in Grants for the Construction of Five Science Facilities | NIST
February 3, 2025
The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded $50 million in grants to five

New laboratories for world-renowned science | NIST
February 3, 2025
JILA, a joint institute of the University of Colorado Boulder and NIST, has opened a new six-story wing

Improving Safety Measures and Measures of Safety for World Metrology Day 2012 | NIST
February 3, 2025
This article focuses on NIST’s general measurement standards for safety rather than specific quantum computing protocols. While it

NIST Calibration Tools to Encourage Use of Novel Medical Imaging Technique | NIST
February 3, 2025
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed prototype calibration tools, called phantoms, for a new