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New Atom-Based Thermometer Measures Temperature More AccuratelyGiant ‘Rydberg’ atoms could simplify temperature sensing in extreme environments, from space to high-precision industries
Mon, 05/19/2025 - 11:13
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a new thermometer using atoms boosted to such high energy levels that they are a thousand times larger than normal. By monitoring how these giant “Rydberg” atoms…
An Extraordinary Standard: New NIST Protein Could Spur Biopharmaceutical Innovation
Mon, 08/08/2016 - 13:07
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued one of the world’s most intricate measurement standards: an exhaustively analyzed antibody protein that the biopharmaceutical industry will use to help ensure the quality of…
A New Way to Measure Nearly Nothing NIST prototype design uses ultracold trapped atoms to measure pressure.
Fri, 11/16/2018 - 12:01
Many semiconductor fabricators and research labs are under increasing pressure from, of all things, vacuum. These facilities need to remove greater amounts of gas molecules and particles from their setups as new technologies and processes demand…
NIST Researchers Offer Tool to Aid Standards Development, Implementation
Mon, 06/17/2013 - 13:00
The nice thing about standards, it's been said, is that there are so many to choose from.* Though this tongue-in-cheek chestnut might be an exaggeration, it is not grossly so. Thousands of public and private organizations around the world generate…
NIST ‘Big Data’ Framework Will Help Make Sense of Our Data-Drenched AgeFramework supports the creation of tools that can be used in any computing environment.
Mon, 11/11/2019 - 14:22
The NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework (NBDIF) is intended to help create software tools (represented here as a spreadsheet page) that can analyze data using any type of computing platform, and that can be moved from one platform to another…