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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 —

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Henry Moseley: A Patriotic Scientist Who Changed the Periodic Table — and Then Went Off to War

February 7, 2024

At a young age, physicist Henry Moseley changed the periodic table of the elements — before dying in a bloody World War I battle.

NIST Radioactivity Measurements Get the Ball Rolling for New Cancer Therapies

February 18, 2021

From the earliest days of radioactivity research, radiation and cancer therapy have gone together like peas and carrots. But Zach Levine covered peas and

World Metrology Day: Measurements for Medicine

May 20, 2020

Today is World Metrology Day. Have you put up the decorations and baked a cake yet to celebrate?! You should! Metrology, the science of measurement, makes

How Extreme Ultraviolet Light Helps Give Us Smarter Smartphones and Stronger Satellites

April 21, 2020

In 2019, after decades of effort, manufacturers used a new technology to create smartphones with individual circuit features as small as 7 nanometers (nm), or

Making Radioactive Lung and Liver Samples for Better Human Health

October 29, 2019

It was 1978, and the United States was embroiled in a Cold War. Nuclear weapons were being produced and numerous countries were carrying out atmospheric nuclear

Defending Against Nuclear and Radioactive Threats: A Q&A with NIST's Leticia Pibida

May 9, 2019

Leticia Pibida, a physicist in the Radiation Physics Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has been chosen as a finalist for a

It’s All Right to Be Wrong in Science

March 12, 2018

I am a scientist. I am often wrong, and that’s okay. You may have heard about major errors in science and engineering that made the news headlines, like the

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Radiation

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

Henry Moseley: A Patriotic Scientist Who Changed the Periodic Table — and Then Went Off to War

NIST Radioactivity Measurements Get the Ball Rolling for New Cancer Therapies

World Metrology Day: Measurements for Medicine

How Extreme Ultraviolet Light Helps Give Us Smarter Smartphones and Stronger Satellites

Making Radioactive Lung and Liver Samples for Better Human Health

Defending Against Nuclear and Radioactive Threats: A Q&A with NIST's Leticia Pibida

It’s All Right to Be Wrong in Science

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