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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

An image of biomolecules, such as nucleic acids, lipids and proteins, in live cells using an imaging technique called infrared (IR) transmission microscopy. Credit: Y. Lee/NIST

New IR Imaging Technique Reveals Biomolecules in Living Cells

Categories Uncategorized

A powerful laser is directed into a jet of gas, forming a bright plasma that generates ultraviolet light. As this light interacts with the remaining gas in the vacuum chamber, it creates a visible white line. This method allows scientists to accurately measure the energy required to excite the thorium-229 nucleus, which is crucial for developing a future nuclear clock.

Nuclear Clocks: The Next Frontier in Ultraprecise Timekeeping

Categories Physics & Mathematics, Technology

NIST researcher Thomas P. Forbes is working to ensure 3D drug printers work as designed.

Your future medications could be personalized for you on a 3D printer

Categories Health, Technology

Scientists have found elevated mercury levels in dolphins throughout the Southeast since 2007. Sources: Bryan, Damseaux, Griffin, Stavros, Woshner.

Research finds dolphins with elevated mercury levels in Florida and Georgia

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Life & Non-humans

Electrons are made up of a negative electrical charge, and scientists at JILA have been trying to measure how evenly that charge is spread between the north and south pole of the electron. Any unevenness would indicate that the electron is not perfectly round, and that would be evidence of an asymmetry in the early universe that led to the existence of matter. The Cornell Group at JILA studied how the electrons in molecules behaved as they adjusted the magnetic field around them to look for any shift in the electrons. Credit: JILA/Steven Burrows

Why Does Matter Exist? Roundness of Electrons May Hold Clues

Categories Physics & Mathematics

Copper “headphones” boost the sensitivity of NIST’s atomic radio receiver, which is composed of a gas of cesium atoms prepared in a special state inside the glass container. When an antenna located above the setup sends down a radio signal, the headphones boost the strength of the received signal a hundredfold.

Custom ‘headphones’ boost atomic radio reception 100-fold

Categories Physics & Mathematics, Technology

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Categories Social Sciences, Technology

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