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Summer STEM Opportunities at NISTDesigned for middle-school science teachers and undergraduates
Thu, 01/08/2015 - 16:56
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- NIST is soliciting applications from eligible public school districts and accredited private educational institutions in the United States and its territories, nominating middle school science teachers to participate in… NIST Shows You How to Build Your Own Watt Balance... With LEGOAnd that is just... AWESOME
Tue, 12/23/2014 - 15:20
On Dec. 10, 2014, the MIT Technology Review ran a story titled, “How to Measure Planck’s Constant Using Lego,” based on a paper by NIST researchers posted to Cornell University’s arXiv.org site. (“A LEGO Watt Balance: An Apparatus to Demonstrate… Better Cargo Inspection Standards at Border CrossingsNIST study provides feedback on two image-quality standards
Wed, 12/17/2014 - 15:00
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- As part of an interagency agreement between NIST and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), PML’s Radiation Physics Division recently completed a series of image quality measurements of a high-energy X-ray vehicle-… Cyber Security: Your Mother Was RightSharing is good, and NIST has some help on how
Thu, 11/20/2014 - 13:26
(NIST) -- Time is not your friend when your information systems are under cyber attack, but sharing threat information before, during, and after an attack with a trusted group of peers can help. Not only does it alert the other members of your… Four U.S. Organizations Honored With 2014 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality AwardHonorees include two Texas healthcare organizations
Mon, 11/17/2014 - 00:00
Penny Pritzker, the U.S. commerce secretary, has announced that four U.S. organizations are recipients of the 2014 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation,… NIST Laser Comb System Remotely Maps 3D SurfacesApplications for manufacturing and forensics
Thu, 10/16/2014 - 15:27
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a laser-based imaging system that creates high-definition 3D maps of surfaces from as far away as 10.5 meters. The method may be useful in diverse fields,… New NIST Research Center Helps the Auto Industry ‘Lighten Up’Managing by the gram
Mon, 09/15/2014 - 16:21
At the new NIST Center for Automotive Lightweighting (NCAL), workloads are fraught with stress and strain—all to help the auto industry take a heavy load off future cars and light trucks.
To meet proposed federal fuel-efficiency standards—54.5… Optical Microscope Technique Confirmed as Valid Nano-Measurement ToolSimple and usable even for low-cost nanomanufacturing applications
Tue, 09/09/2014 - 13:06
Recent experiments have confirmed that a technique developed several years ago at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can enable optical microscopes to measure the 3D shape of objects at nanometer-scale resolution—far below… It’s a Dynamic World Now NIST can help you measure its changes
Mon, 09/08/2014 - 14:22
Crash-test dummies, yarn-spinning machines, and steel girders in bridges. What do they have in common? Look inside them all and you find transducers, devices that measure the forces that push, pull, weigh upon, and slam into them. But transducers… Technology Commercialization Support for Small BusinessesGrant applications due Sept. 23, 2014
Thu, 08/28/2014 - 10:05
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking an organization to support its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awardees by providing technical and business expertise and resources to promote commercialization of the…
