Quantum Advances: NIST and Industry Drive Powerful Computing and Clocks
Imagine what life would be like without GPS, something you use all the time without thinking about where it came from.
Decoding Biological Complexity With Mass Spectrometry
Robert “Bob” Hettich has spent much of his career at the U.S.
Boosting Automotive Quality Assurance With SEM
Ensuring that automotive components meet the highest quality standards is critical to vehicle safety and performance.
Environmental Factors in Industrial Hygiene Equipment Calibration
Industrial hygiene equipment plays a critical role in ensuring workplace safety by monitoring airborne contaminants, noise levels, and other hazardous conditions.
Improving Material Testing Cost and Efficiency
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Quality control workflows are only as effective as the machinery they rely on. Ensuring functionality requires understanding what to test and how to measure these factors.
Product Defects: Completely Under Control
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Electric motor housing inspected by 42 uEye XC cameras.
In areas such as high-precision metalworking, accuracy is nonnegotiable. This includes the automotive industry and its suppliers, which are in crisis in Germany for several reasons.
Shaping Future Innovators
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A student at Hawthorne High School of Manufacturing & Engineering in Los Angeles 3D-scans a McLaren race car with the MetraSCAN BLACK+|Elite during the Historic Indy Car Challenge at the Long Beach Grand Prix.
Hawthorne High School of Manufacturing & Engineering in Los Angeles is not your typical high school program.
Shedding Light
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NIST researcher Alexander Kramida manages the Atomic Spectra Database, helping database experts bring you computer chips, lighting, and more.
Nearly everything we know about the universe comes from light. Cosmologists learn about the universe by studying light from faraway stars and comparing what it shows us to the light of the same atoms here on Earth.
Event-Based Cameras Optimize Flow Analysis in Science and Industry
Today, modern measurement technologies enable high-precision detection of the movement of liquids and gases, providing valuable data for numerous applications. How does air flow around an airplane? How does blood move through our veins?
Quantum and Dance
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NIST researcher Krister Shalm views quantum mechanics as a poem the universe has written about its most fundamental workings. The language of this poem is mathematics.
One lecture in an undergraduate quantum physics class changed my life forever.