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<description> Wherever humans go, we take some form of insulation with us to keep us at just the right temperature. But just because the idea is old doesnt mean that there havent been innovations. One of those innovations could lower your energy costs.
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<description> 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 Earths atmosphere — in a scientific refrigerator.
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<description> Quantum is everywhere, and you can understand the basic quirks of life at the quantum level … no math required.
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<description> NIST is working to help emergency workers have more information in a crisis by encouraging the development of advanced drones at an affordable price.
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<description> Products you use every day are carefully formulated in a lab. Experts at NIST are now working to revolutionize how those products are made.
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Speeding Up the Wheels of Justice: How NIST Resources Can Help Crime Labs Work Faster</title>
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<description> Forensic science is not as easy as it looks on TV. But NIST resources are helping crime labs examine evidence more efficiently — so the justice system can work better for everyone.
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>A Look Back at the Past 3 Years Accomplishments, by NIST Director Laurie E. Locascio</title>
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<description> NIST Director Laurie E. Locascio departs NIST this month after more than 30 years at the agency, including three as its director.
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>From Safer Skies to Fewer Fires: 10 Ways NIST Impacts Your Daily Life</title>
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<description> If youve ever had a medical test, flown on an airplane, or needed to check the time, NISTs work affects your life every day.
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Pirouetting Molecules Can Help Us Learn About the History of the Universe</title>
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<description> Our researchers are trapping tiny, fast-moving molecules — in hopes of learning more about the formation of our stars and universe.
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Talk NISTy to Me: When Everyday Words Take On Different Meanings in Measurement Science</title>
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<description> Words that have common meanings have different definitions in the world of measurement science.
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ben P. Stein</dc:creator>
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<title>A Laser Could Offer a Peek Into the Insides of Our Muscles or Look Through Fire</title>
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<description> A NIST-developed laser system might someday check your muscle health when you flex your arm. These lasers can also see how an object changes during heat exposure when it is in a fire.
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Esther Baumann </dc:creator>
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<title>Natures Lessons: Creating a Greener Future for Manufacturing</title>
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<description> What if one manufacturers trash could be anothers treasure? A NIST researcher looks to nature for answers to this question.
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>How Atomic Clocks Have Changed Our World</title>
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<description> We spend our days immersed in time. But where does time come from? How do we track it? This has evolved along with technology in recent years.
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Safety Moon Shot: How Fire Research Cut Deaths by Half in a Generation</title>
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<description> NIST research helped make the smoke alarm a standard part of our homes, and its one of many ways our fire research has made everyone safer.
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Whats in a Name? The Magnetic Weber </title>
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<description> Dr. Wilhelm Weber gets the distinction of having the unit of magnetic flux, the weber, named in his honor. Magnetic flux measures the total magnetic field that passes through a surface.
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Cybersecurity Careers Go Beyond Coding</title>
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<description> You dont have to be a coder or have a technical background to work in cybersecurity. Learn about the career stories of three of our NIST cybersecurity professionals.
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<title>Can Nanotechnology Help Solve Climate Change?</title>
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<description> When we think about the climate crisis, we tend to think big. But two NIST researchers are thinking of small ways to help our planet — as in technology 1,000 times smaller than a hair.
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Facing the Facts to Keep Our Biometrics Secure</title>
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<description> As facial recognition has become more common — from opening your smartphone to identifying yourself at a national border — NISTs work in facial recognition has become more high-stakes.
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Curiosity to Career: Encouraging Students to Pursue STEM Education</title>
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<description> A NIST researcher is volunteering to educate young students about life as a scientist — and encourage kids to envision a career for themselves in STEM.
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Keepers of the Right Answer: Why Measurements at NIST Are Important for the Nation and the World</title>
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<description> Practically everything you use in your everyday life works because of measurement science.
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Sinking Our Teeth Into Science: How Biomedical Engineering Can Help Make Us Healthier</title>
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<description> From safer dental products to tracking the movement of tiny plastics through gut tissues, regenerative medicine can make us healthier.
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Robert A. Gutierrez </dc:creator>
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<title>A Summer of Studying Cybersecurity — and Human Errors Role in Attacks</title>
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<description> A NIST intern spent his summer researching cybersecurity — and the human errors that can jeopardize it.
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Miles Walker</dc:creator>
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<title>Unlocking Our Worlds Earliest Secrets — One Tiny Electron at a Time</title>
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<description> Why do we exist? Its a big question — and one that some of NISTs early universe detectives are getting closer to answering.
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sun Park</dc:creator>
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<title>The Promise of Synthetic Cells: Revolutionary New Drugs, Outer Space Explorers and Pushing Beyond the Limits of Evolution</title>
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<description> Scientists are getting closer to creating a living cell from scratch. It could help treat diseases or even create life forms that can be better adapted to space.
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>One of the Worlds Roundest Objects Is Helping to Build a Better Mass Measurement</title>
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<description> Different countries' approaches can lead to different definitions of the kilogram. But NIST is working with our international partners to see how we can close those tiny gaps.
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Megan King</dc:creator>
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<title>You Dont Learn This in School: My Experience as a NIST Summer Intern</title>
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<description> The most important thing I remember from being a NIST intern last summer is the power of persistence in research.
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>How Low Can Temperature Go? Lord Kelvin and the Science of Absolute Zero</title>
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<description> On Lord Kelvins 200th birthday today, were remembering the scientist who brought us the metric (SI) unit for temperature.
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Your Future Medications Could Be Personalized for You on a 3D Printer</title>
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<description> Your future medications could be made on a 3D printer, and a NIST researcher is working to make sure that process is safe.
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lawrence Goodman</dc:creator>
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<title>NIST Researchers Measure Greenhouse Gases During the Solar Eclipse</title>
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<description> Check out some of the things happening at NIST during the past few months through the lens of social media.
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>One of NISTs Most Prolific Inventors Is Also Our Director — and Shes Still an Inventor at Heart</title>
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<description> Before she was the director of NIST, Laurie E. Locascio invented materials that make us healthier.
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<title>From Trash to Cash: How AI and Machine Learning Can Help Make Recycling Less Expensive for Local Governments</title>
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<description> Can AI help us recycle better? A NIST researcher is working to make that happen.
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>NIST Research Is Setting the Standard to Help Buildings Withstand Tornadoes</title>
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<description> Two NIST researchers have been recognized for their work to create new standards for buildings that can better withstand tornadoes.
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>NIST Physicists Once Obscure Work Is Now Helping Researchers Learn About the Origins of the Universe</title>
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<description> 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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<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ron Cowen</dc:creator>
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<title>Measuring Microplastics: To Solve the Problem, We Have to Understand and Measure It</title>
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<description> My friends sometimes jokingly ask me, “How many microplastics do you think I consumed this week?” Unfortunately, the answer is not zero.
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>George Caceres</dc:creator>
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<title>Demystifying Quantum: Its Here, There and Everywhere</title>
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<description> Its time to celebrate World Quantum Day! But what is quantum, anyway? A NIST physicist answers your questions.
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Listening to the Data: How a NIST Tool Helps Labs Worldwide Harmonize Measurements</title>
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<description> In a global economy, measurements need to be reliably comparable across the world. But how do we ensure that actually happens?
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Antonio Possolo</dc:creator>
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<title>The Sound of Soot: How a Strange Noise Can Keep Us Safer From Fires</title>
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<description> Where theres smoke, theres fire. Where theres fire, there is soot. And where there is soot, there is … noise.
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>From Bookmobiles to Big Data, How Library Scientists Make Information Accessible to All</title>
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<description> During Womens History Month, a NIST librarian looks back at the librarian who brought us the bookmobile — back when it brought books by horse and buggy.
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Houston, We Have the Engine Remnants: How My Lab Pieced Together a Forgotten Part of an Apollo Rocket</title>
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<description> Like many people, I had dreams of flying into space as an astronaut when I was a child. That interest in aerospace and space exploration has continued throughout my life.
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description> The nominees are in … for the best use of measurement in a movie.
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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