(ANSI: Washington) -- The British Standards Institution (BSI) has submitted a proposal to the International Organizat

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In the U.S. health care system, quality and safety have developed into strategically important issues. Progress is being made at the local level, even if it is slow and doesn’t get much of the public’s attention.

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created a tunable superconducting circuit on a chip that can place a single microwave photon (a particle of light) in two frequencies, or colors, at the same time.

(National Physical Laboratory: Teddington, UK) -- The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) occupies a unique position as the United Kingdom’s National Measurement Institute and sits at the intersection between scientific discovery and real world application.

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Wanting to be known for his hospitality in the neighborhood, a restaurant owner advertised take-out Thanksgiving turkey dinners, ready to go. With the holiday coming up, Joe planned to have friends over for dinner and decided to take advantage of the offer.

Story update 7/08/2011: We corrected an error in Figure 2, and in the section preceded by "Expressed symbolically for a stable process...".

Traditionally, 3-D dimensional inspection was performed in the quiet, stable, spotless, and controlled environment of quality labs.