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Earth Sciences Dec 7, 2015

First code improvements adopted based on NIST Joplin tornado study

Protecting schools and their associated high-occupancy buildings from the most violent tornadoes is the goal of the first approved building code changes based on recommendations from the National Institute of Standards and ...

Optics & Photonics Dec 3, 2015

Measuring nanoscale features with fractions of light

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers are seeing the light, but in an altogether different way. And how they are doing it just might be the semiconductor industry's ticket for extending its use ...

Engineering Nov 30, 2015

Robot adds new twist to NIST antenna measurements and calibrations

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been pioneering antenna measurement methods for decades, but a new robot may be the ultimate innovation, extending measurements to higher frequencies while characterizing ...

Quantum Physics Nov 12, 2015

NIST team proves 'spooky action at a distance' is really real

Einstein was wrong about at least one thing: There are, in fact, "spooky actions at a distance," as now proven by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Earth Sciences Nov 9, 2015

NIST study of Colorado wildfire shows actions can change outcomes

A new study of Colorado's devastating 2012 Waldo Canyon wildfire demonstrates that prompt and effective action can significantly change the outcome of fires that occur in areas where residential communities and undeveloped ...

General Physics Oct 8, 2015

Scientists float new approach to creating computer memory

What can skyrmions do for you? These ghostly quantum rings, heretofore glimpsed only under extreme laboratory conditions, just might be the basis for a new type of computer memory that never loses its grip on the data it ...

Other Sep 22, 2015

R&D yields new standard for safer ambulances

Thanks to a newly updated standard for ambulance design based on research and development by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and two federal partners, emergency runs should soon be much safer for ...

Quantum Physics Sep 22, 2015

Physicists break distance record for quantum teleportation

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have "teleported" or transferred quantum information carried in light particles over 100 kilometers (km) of optical fiber, four times farther than the ...

Optics & Photonics Sep 10, 2015

Physicists show 'molecules' made of light may be possible

It's not lightsaber time, not yet. But a team including theoretical physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has taken another step toward building objects out of photons, and the findings ...

General Physics Jul 29, 2015

NIST PET phantoms bring new accuracy to medical scans

Teaming with a medical equipment company, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated the first calibration system for positron emission tomography (PET) scanners directly tied ...

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