News tagged with laboratory accreditation

First Test Labs for Next-Generation Internet Protocol (IPv6) Are Accredited

The first two laboratories have recently completed accreditation to provide testing services for the USGv6 Program. The USGv6 Program, developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, provides the basis for ...

Technology / Internet

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Experts recommend measures to reduce human error in fingerprint analysis

A new report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has documented 149 potential sources of human error in the analy ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sun trackers gather to calibrate instruments

Under a partly cloudy sky overlooking grassy mesas, dozens of cylindrical instruments point toward the sun above the Colorado prairie.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New standard specification may facilitate use of additives that trigger biodegradation of oil-based plastics in landfill

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite efforts to encourage the recycling of plastic water bottles, milk jugs and similar containers, a majority of the plastic packaging produced each year in the United States ends up in ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Record-breaking solar cell announced by multinational research team

The most efficient colloidal-quantum-dot solar cell ever created will be described in a scientific paper to be published in a print edition of the journal Nature Materials by a team of scientists that includ ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 8

Research improves performance of next-generation solar cell technology

Researchers from the University of Toronto, the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) and Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) have created the most efficient solar cell ever made based on collodial-quatum-dots ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 18, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Anti-doping expert warns cheating athletes

Professor David Cowan, Director of the Drug Control Center at King’s College London, has warned athletes who take prohibited performance-enhancing substances that the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Temperature tracking device for packages may have climate metrology applications

(PhysOrg.com) -- National Institute of Standards and Technology researchers are working to reduce the uncertainty associated with climate-change measurements using a mobile temperature-sensing technology made ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

EU study: No significant difference in car fuel consumption between 95E10 and 98E5 petrol grades

A study conducted by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland indicates that there is practically no difference between commercial petrol grades 95E10 and 98E5 sold in Finland as regards fuel consumption in normal driving. ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Imported olive oil quality unreliable, study finds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nearly three-quarters of the samples of top-selling imported olive oil brands failed international extra virgin standards, according to a new report by researchers at the University of California, Davis, ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Boosting medicine with nanotechnology to destroy cancers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Melding nanotechnology and medical research, Sandia National Laboratories, the University of New Mexico, and the UNM Cancer Research and Treatment Center have produced an effective strategy ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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