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The US Department of Commerce's (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will receive a total of $857 million (€651.92 million) for the fiscal year 2013. This represents a 14 percent increase from FY2012 levels, and sets the Institute on target for a budget doubling by 2016.
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14 February 2012
10:54 GMT |
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Material known as iron-based superconductors may have just been brought one step closer to practical applications and widespread use, thanks to an achievement managed by investigators at the University of Maryland and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
The group was able to discover a memb... |
8 February 2012
04:23 GMT |
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It was not long ago that the shortcomings of data security in the cloud were pointed out and, since Quantum Mechanics isn't quite there yet, NIST has decided to issue some guidelines.
NIST, short for National Institute of Standards and Technology, decided it was time organizations got a clear idea of what they... |
25 January 2012
16:51 GMT |
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By using light and a device resembling a nanoscale loudspeaker, detecting weak electrical fields could become easier and more effective than ever, says a collaboration of international researchers. The approach could also be used to cool down electrical circuits.
What this means is that the technique could be used f... |
25 January 2012
14:01 GMT |
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A group of investigators was recently able to boost a standard scanning electron microscope's (SEM) ability to resolve and measure the crystal structures of both nanoparticles and thin films, by as much as 1,000 percent. SEM imaging will from now on be used increasingly often in nanotechnology studies.
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25 January 2012
03:48 GMT |
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A team of scientists from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) say that graphene has the tendency to become more slippery when stacked. In a single-sheet configuration, the material usually slows down objects.
The NIST group compares the effect a single layer of graphene has on objects rolli... |
11 January 2012
05:31 GMT |
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A team of physicists at the US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) announces the development of a new sensor that is capable of measuring the optical power passing through a fiber optics cable with unprecedented levels of accuracy.
The advanced radiometer, whose performances are mostly a direct r... |
21 December 2011
05:00 GMT |
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The internal states of atoms can apparently be manipulated using special types of laser light, experts at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announce in a new study. This ability has never been demonstrated before. The most interesting aspect of this study is that atomic interactions can b... |
9 December 2011
02:47 GMT |
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All house appliances and tools produce ultrafine particles, structures that can be as small as a single DNA molecule. In a new study, experts in the United States wanted to see how much of these particles a typical home produces, and what their spatial distribution patterns are.
The study lasted for 75 days, and wa... |
7 December 2011
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The 10,000 superconducting sensors experts at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) installed inside the Submillimeter Common-Use Bolometer Array (SCUBA2) camera are finally ready to use. The instrument is now the largest submillimeter camera in the world.
Installed on the James Clerk Maxwell... |
6 December 2011
06:22 GMT |
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A new alloy created in the United States can be controlled via magnetism, opening the way for new applications in sensor and micromechanical device applications. The multi-institution research group that carried out the work was coordinated by experts at the University of Maryland (UMD).
The alloy was obtained by co... |
23 November 2011
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A decade-long investigation of the matter-antimatter imbalance that allowed everything in the Universe to form has finally concluded at the US National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST). The team says that this was the most precise study of its kind ever conducted. What experts analyzed was why matter w... |
21 November 2011
03:02 GMT |
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The Homeland Security Department and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have filed a note in which they propose the implementation of a voluntary corporate notification system that would alert consumers whenever a botnet or other malware infection is discovered.Currently, both companies and individua... |
24 September 2011
06:43 GMT |
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Based on the latest studies, experts with the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently published their internationally recommended values of the fundamental constants of nature. The new numbers bring some modifications for the values of gravity and electromagnetism.According to the researcher... |
20 July 2011
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US physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently demonstrated that it's possible to operate super-stable laser configurations inside cramped and vibrating environments, such as for example a minivan.This achievement is only the first step towards taking atomic clocks – ... |
12 May 2011
08:29 GMT |
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For many years, genetics experts believed that deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is only capable of stretching inside living cells if it had loose-hanging, single strands called free ends. A new study shows that these structures' presence is not necessarily required to have elastic DNA.From the time it first develops,... |
27 January 2011
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In a new scientific study, researchers propose for the first time that the mercury cycle taking place in the Arctic and adjacent areas may have a direct influence on the ice cover extent at and around the North pole. These conclusions were derived from a multi-year joint research effort. The chemical cycles through t... |
22 January 2011
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Physicists and materials scientist around the world are currently working on developing methods of including graphene inside next-generation electronics without causing the material to lose its trademark physical and chemical properties. The effort is bound to be very challenging, experts say. The reasons why so many... |
21 January 2011
08:43 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the powerful Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) telescope recently got the visit of scientists from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), who calibrated their photo sensors for asteroid observations.This particular observatory, which is locate... |
10 January 2011
10:05 GMT |
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For many physicists, determining how the force of gravity acts at small scales, such as in the distance separating two atoms, has been an elusive objective for many years, but new studies are starting to shed some light on the issue. The investigations are also beginning to reveal that the laws of classical physics m... |
14 October 2010
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A new state-of-the-art Western Institute of Nanotechnology on Green Engineering and Metrology (WIN-GEM) will be built at the UCLA, officials from the university announced. The facility, which will support research into advanced energy conservation technologies, will be responsible for innovating microelectronics and ... |
7 October 2010
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Researchers at the Indiana University Bloomington have recently been awarded a $5 million grant, which seeks to promote and support next generation research into neutrons and their behavior. The funding will fuel the Low Energy Neutron Source (LENS) at the university. Experts here will collaborate closely with collea... |
27 August 2010
03:36 GMT |
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A team of experts at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA), which is jointly operated by the University of Colorado in Boulder (UCB) and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recently developed a new method of decontaminating semiconductor materials. The achievement is very... |
4 August 2010
10:35 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking series of experiments, scientists in the United States managed to develop a new method of analyzing how graphene sheets are stacked on top of each other. Scientists with the collaboration say that the technique is also suitable for determining which areas of the compound are subjected to most stra... |
29 April 2010
06:32 GMT |
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Drawing inspiration from everyday life, a group of researchers from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland devised a new way of producing custom-built liquid-filled vehicles called liposomes. These lipid bubbles hold great promise for protecting drugs during delive... |
29 April 2010
06:01 GMT |
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Imagine a chain composed of a single type of atoms. For argument's sake, say that you are dealing with gold atoms. For many years, physicists and chemists have wondered how hard one has to pull with a specialized device on one of the atoms, so that it separates from the others of its kind. As the issue moves fro... |
1 April 2010
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Synchronized and coherent development efforts in concert with common goals and clearly defined priorities could virtually redefine the evolution of technical standards in the United States. Of course, this would require a new level of cohesiveness among the stakeholders laboring to produce emerging standards, as an i... |
24 March 2010
11:01 GMT |
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In addition to sacking NASA's plans to go to the Moon by 2020, the new budget proposal that the White House forwarded to the Congress also includes more funding for basic science. Despite the federal freeze that has been proposed on all non-defense discretionary spending, American science agencies and organizati... |
3 February 2010
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A collaboration of scientists from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and partners in the industry and academia, was able to develop small-scale antennas that acted just like the real deal. In fact, the innovative devices are so good at what they were built to do, that there is no significa... |
27 January 2010
19:11 GMT |
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Nanoparticles are among the most promising materials to be incorporated in the medical therapies of tomorrow. They can be constructed so as to carry vaccine molecules directly to the place of interest, or can be made to glow in certain wavelengths, evidencing various targets inside the human body for medical imaging ... |
14 January 2010
05:33 GMT |
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Javier Atencia is an investigator that spent a lot of time toying with microfluidic devices, the small, scientific instruments made up of tiny channels that conduct fluids, which can be used for a very wide array of applications, including water diagnostics and decontamination. Like others before him, he came to the ... |
18 November 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Measuring the frequencies of visible light is not exactly the most difficult thing to do, but a team of experts at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST), in the United States, and the University of Konstanz, in Germany, has just finished developing a new tool that will make this process ev... |
30 October 2009
08:07 GMT |
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As any construction-site foreman will tell you, fingerprint-recognition hardware installed at these locations oftentimes fails to provide a correct identification of the worker. This happens because their fingers, especially their thumbs, are usually damaged and bruised from all the intense labor. Scientists at the U... |
26 October 2009
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Waveforms are concepts very well known to those working with electricity, or in music production, but for different reasons. They are graphical shapes showing how electrical signals vary over time, and they are extremely useful in setting the groundwork for new types of circuits and other electronic devices. Now, sci... |
7 October 2009
10:55 GMT |
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Everyone knows that one of the basic traits magnets have is sporting two poles. If you break a larger magnet into two smaller ones, then each of the them will have a “north” and a “south pole.” For some time, experts have theorized that it could be possible to create magnetic monopoles, as in ... |
7 October 2009
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Physicists Carlos Lopez-Mariscal and Kristian Helmerson, with the aid of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, have recently devised a new method of encasing single molecules in microdroplets. The innovation will allow experts to devise and monit... |
23 September 2009
06:30 GMT |
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Microprocessor architects have hoped for a long time that a day will come when molecule-sized electronic components will become readily available and fit for implementation in next-gen devices. Scientists at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) have recently developed a new, small-scale “s... |
28 August 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Experts have been working hard on overcoming the obstacles that stand in the way of creating a fully functional quantum computer for quite some time now, but one of the main issues in their path was the fact that they could not control the actions of a single qubit (quantum bit – the basic unit of a quantum pro... |
8 July 2009
08:48 GMT |
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Ion traps haven't been a thing of novelty for a very long time, ever since they started being used regularly in atomic clocks, as well as in lines of research related to quantum computing development. Ions, which are essentially electrically charged atoms, move through these so-called traps, and experience all s... |
2 July 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) managed to create one of the most sophisticated and accurate laser ranging systems, combining two very precise long-distance measurement techniques with an optical survey method known as an optical frequency comb. The result is a LIDAR (Light Detect... |
25 May 2009
06:08 GMT |
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Law enforcement agencies around the world rely on a lot of new gadgets to complete their tasks, including powerful computers, state-of-the-art forensics methods, worldwide databases, fingerprint systems, and so on. But even their most basic devices, in use everyday, such as down-the-road (DTR) radars and ballistic ch... |
22 May 2009
09:09 GMT |
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Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) experts have announced that they managed to determine the energy spectrum of graphene, the “wonder” carbon compound that has only two dimensions. By using complex measurement techniques, they succeeded in d... |
15 May 2009
08:47 GMT |
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Researchers at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) managed to successfully conclude a new laser-based research recently, having created a prototype nanotube-coated power measurement device for high-precision calibration. The innovation could benefit those laser systems that are now used in the ... |
9 May 2009
04:10 GMT |
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The theory that holds the Big Bang responsible for the creation of the Universe is one way of explaining how everything around us came to be, but it also raises questions as to what happened in those early moments, when the basis for all that exists today was set. More specifically, experts wonder what happened in th... |
4 May 2009
05:50 GMT |
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US experts from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have recently announced that they are in the latter stages of developing a new investigation technique that will help forensics specialists in the manual portion of the latent fingerprint identification. This would free up a lot of time for the... |
24 April 2009
06:37 GMT |
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Human teeth have such a remarkable strength, that dentists never cease to be amazed at how even a tooth covered in cracks can still hold together, without breaking apart. They know that the enamel, which constitutes the outer layer of the teeth, is a very strong, yet brittle material, and so they couldn't explai... |
14 April 2009
06:15 GMT |
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) theorists have recently discovered a new obstacle that has the potential to hinder the development of quantum computers – the fact that software capable of looking for and handling errors that might occur during calculations are more difficult to produce tha... |
9 April 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Creating junctions inside future quantum processors is a very important step in their design. Actually, some may argue that this is the most important step, as, without a pathway to carry information from one place to the other inside a processor, all other innovations in the area are useless. However, the main probl... |
9 April 2009
03:21 GMT |
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