Taking Measure Blog: Sensors

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High-Flying Science: How and Why We Sent a Refrigerator Halfway to Space

February 12, 2025

NIST-developed tools can study the remnants of the Big Bang and more, and now researchers are working to launch these tools high above the Earth’s atmosphere —

NIST Physicist’s Once Obscure Work Is Now Helping Researchers Learn About the Origins of the Universe

May 1, 2024

A NIST researcher worked in obscurity for years — until his work was needed to help us understand the origins of our universe.

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In Case You Missed It From NIST: 2021 Edition

December 21, 2021

While the pandemic still grips the world, researchers at NIST continue their work on COVID-19 related research, as well as the wide range of other science and

Working to Improve Small-Scale MRIs: My Summer as a SURF Student at NIST

September 29, 2021

I didn’t really know what to expect on the first day of my virtual Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program at the National Institute of

Creating and Commercializing a Human ‘Body Cube’ for Testing New Drugs

May 28, 2021

Growing up, I always had a love for living things, so I went off to college and got an undergraduate degree in biology. After that, I realized I wanted to

Developing an Exposure Notification System to Blunt the Spread of COVID-19 and Future Pandemics

November 10, 2020

I am part of a grassroots effort at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that is developing an exposure notification system for pandemics

How NIST Helped Hero Pilot Jimmy Doolittle Fly

August 19, 2020

As portrayed by movie star Spencer Tracy in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, pilot James (Jimmy) Doolittle led the 1942 air raid on Japan that lifted American spirits

Operation Tech Transfer

March 10, 2020

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a world-class research organization. We have phenomenal scientists and engineers with impeccable

Top NIST Images of 2018

February 6, 2019

There’s nothing quite like a captivating image to make you want to learn more. And nowhere is that more apparent than when it comes to sometimes hard-to

Unidentified Museum Objects IV

August 7, 2018

The underground storage shelves of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Museum are filled with loads of charmingly weird objects accrued

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