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The history of the Python programming language includes NIST, where its creator briefly served as a guest researcher.
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Who you gonna call when you’re spooked by a mystery compound? NIST!
NIST has updated its comprehensive list of chemical fingerprints, called mass spectra, that others rely on to identify unknown compounds in food, drugs, and even space rocks.
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A new NIST AI model can identify safe evacuation routes, one step at a time. The model currently works for single-story floor plans and can someday be used with electronic displays in a building to show whether an exit is safe.
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What do salad dressings and metal alloys have in common? They need to be mixed well. For dressings, you only need to shake the bottle. But to mix alloys while 3D printing, NIST researchers needed to invent a way to stir the molten metal with lasers.
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It’s all fun and games until someone gets a laser in the eye. And unfortunately, in tabletop gaming, this sometimes happens. But a NIST laser expert has helped some Colorado gamers play more safely.
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NIST is extending the scope of and calling for new members for the newly renamed NIST AI Consortium. It will focus on AI innovation and adoption, with six task groups concentrating on aspects of AI measurement science and evaluation.
Details at nist.gov/news-events/news/20…
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Funding Alert: @NIST announced an upcoming $10M opportunity for existing @MFGUSA institutes to develop Technology Transition Roadmaps! Learn More: nist.gov/ampo/notice-intent-…
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Researchers at NIST are making single-photon detectors using superconducting materials chilled to near absolute zero. These quantum sensors can detect signals that were previously invisible.
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You can view a list of all draft @NIST cybersecurity and privacy publications that are open for public comment on the Computer Security Resource Center. Your thoughtful reviews and comments are greatly appreciated and help us improve our publications. csrc.nist.gov/publications/d…
A NIST researcher has a goal—create a viable alternative to mammograms that is pain-free, highly accurate, and can save even more lives than mammograms do. It’s possible within our lifetimes.
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Watt’s that? Meet the Kibble balance, formerly known as the watt balance. This exquisitely accurate machine relies on electromechanical power and gravitational forces and turns the precise definition of the kilogram into physical reality.
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Shooting for the Moon: ultra-stable lasers in dark craters could enable precise lunar navigation and timekeeping.
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Tanya-Brown Giammanco is NIST’s director of Disaster and Failure Studies. The work of her and her team helps make the buildings around us safer.
You can learn more about Tanya’s research here:
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NIST researchers recently sent a package of house dust into space, in collaboration with @NOAA and @RhScientific, to help us better understand how space flight and time in space affect materials.
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Firefighter gear contains chemicals known as PFAS to resist moisture and heat. A new NIST study shows that wear and tear could change the PFAS levels in firefighter hoods, gloves, and wildland gear.
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Recently, @NIST finalized Special Publication (SP) 800-234, High-Performance Computing (HPC) Security Overlay. It tailors 60 security controls from NIST SP 800-53 with supplemental guidance and/or discussion to enhance their applicability in HPC contexts. csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/23…