Announcement of Proposal to Revise FIPS 180-4, Secure Hash Standard (SHS) | NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced plans to revise Federal Information Processing Standard Publication…
NIST Staff Honored in 2006 Presidential Rank Awards | NIST
Five NIST staff members have been recognized with 2006 Presidential Rank Awards for their exceptional public service contributions. The…
NIST’s Next-Generation Atomic Clocks May Support Official Timekeeping | NIST
NIST’s experimental next-generation atomic clocks, based on ytterbium, strontium, aluminum, and mercury atoms, have reached a level of…
JQI Researchers Create Entangled Photons from Quantum Dots | NIST
Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have developed a new method to create entangled photons using quantum dots. By applying a…
Chip-scale Refrigerators Cool Bulk Objects | NIST
Researchers at NIST have developed tiny chip-scale refrigerators that can cool large objects to extremely low temperatures. The refrigerators,…
JILA Researchers Make Coldest Quantum Gas of Molecules | NIST
Researchers at JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder, have created the coldest quantum gas of molecules to…
NIST, NCI, SAIC Partner on New Method for Detecting HER2 Breast Cancer | NIST
Researchers from NIST, NCI, and SAIC have developed a new method for detecting HER2 breast cancer using chicken antibodies tagged with quantum…
JILA’s Superradiant Laser May One Day Boost Atomic Clocks and ‘Rulers’ for Space | NIST
JILA physicists have developed a new type of laser called a “superradiant laser” that could significantly improve the performance…
Two New Advanced Laboratories Open at NIST Boulder and JILA | NIST
Two new advanced laboratories, the Precision Measurement Laboratory (PML) at NIST Boulder and the X-Wing at JILA, have opened to support…