In two new studies, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have greatly improved the efficiency and power output of a series of chip-scale devices that generate laser light at different colors ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 28, 2023
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There's a mystery happening in some satellites facing the sun, and scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) are on the case. The ...
Space Exploration
Mar 3, 2023
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DNA can signal the presence of or predisposition to a slew of diseases, including cancer. The ability to flag down these clues, known as biomarkers, allows medical professionals to make critical early diagnoses and provide ...
Biotechnology
Jan 24, 2023
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Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a popular technique for interrogating surfaces on the micro and nano scales. The most common use for AFM is imaging; however, there are a variety of more specialized AFM techniques that can ...
Nanophysics
Jan 17, 2023
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This standard reference material from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will help calibrate procedures for calcium determinations used in clinical analysis and for routine critical evaluation of the ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 17, 2023
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We typically think of the ocean's color as blue, but in some places, it looks blue-green. That's because those areas are teeming with single-cell plants called phytoplankton, which contain chlorophyll and reflect the green ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 4, 2023
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The ability to transmit and manipulate, with minimal loss, the smallest unit of light—the photon—plays a pivotal role in optical communications as well as designs for quantum computers that would use light rather than ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 3, 2023
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For decades, astronomers and physicists have been trying to solve one of the deepest mysteries about the cosmos: An estimated 85% of its mass is missing. Numerous astronomical observations indicate that the visible mass in ...
General Physics
Dec 9, 2022
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In some materials, the molecules line up in a regular, repeating pattern. In others, they all point in random directions. But in many advanced materials used in medicine, computer chip manufacturing and other industries, ...
Polymers
Dec 8, 2022
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What are these microscopic zebra-striped squares, and why did scientists painstakingly arrange more than 6 million of them on a silicon plate just half a centimeter wide?
Quantum Physics
Dec 8, 2022
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