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Quantum physics could make secure, single-use computer memories possible

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Categories Physics & Mathematics, Technology

Atoms dressed with light show new interactions, could reveal way to observe enigmatic particle

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Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have found a way to manipulate atoms’ internal states with lasers that dramatically influences their interactions in specific ways. Such light-tweaked atoms can be used as proxies …

Categories Physics & Mathematics, Technology, Uncategorized

NIST Detectors to Probe Origins of Stars, Planets and Galaxies

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Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Physics & Mathematics, Space, Technology, Uncategorized

NIST, Food Marketing Institute co-host webinar on ensuring accurate net weights in retail

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A reliable and trustworthy system of weights and measures is vital for economic activity. Maintaining that system requires constant vigilance, and that’s where the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Weights and Measures Division (…

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Etched quantum dots shape up as single photon emitters, NIST tests show

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Like snowflakes or fingerprints, no two quantum dots are identical. But a new etching method for shaping and positioning these semiconductor nanocrystals might change that. What’s more, tests at the National Institute of Standards and Technolo…

Categories Blog Entry, Physics & Mathematics, Technology

The NIST role in role-based control: A 20th anniversary appraisal

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What NIST-led innovation is estimated to have saved U.S. industry $6.1 billion over the past 20 years? Well, probably several, but, perhaps surprisingly, a new economics study* points to the development of “role-based access control,” a computer-sec…

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Compact high-temperature superconducting cables demonstrated at NIST

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A researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has invented a method of making high-temperature superconducting (HTS) cables that are thinner and more flexible than demonstration HTS cables now installed in the electri…

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment, Health, Technology

2 publications recommend organization-wide IT security risk management

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Two new draft publications from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provide the groundwork for a three-tiered risk-management approach that encompasses computer security risk planning from the highest levels of management to th…

Categories Blog Entry, Technology

Extracting cellular ‘engines’ may aid in understanding mitochondrial diseases

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Medical researchers who crave a means of exploring the genetic culprits behind a host of neuromuscular disorders may have just had their wish granted by a team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where scienti…

Categories Blog Entry, Health, Life & Non-humans, Technology

NIST telescope calibration may help explain mystery of universe’s expansion

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Is the expansion of the universe accelerating for some unknown reason? This is one of the mysteries plaguing astrophysics, and somewhere in distant galaxies are yet-unseen supernovae that may hold the key. Now, thanks to a telescope calibrated…

Categories Blog Entry, Space, Technology

IPv6 guide provides path to secure deployment of next-generation Internet protocol

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As the day draws nearer for the world to run out of the unique addresses that allow us to use the Internet — now predicted to happen by the end of 2012 — researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have issued a guide …

Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology

Purdue, NIST working on breathalyzers for medical diagnostics

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researchers have overcome a fundamental obstacle in developing breath-analysis technology to rapidly diagnose patients by detecting chemical compounds called “biomarkers” in a person’s respiration in real time.
The re…

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