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NIST’s Million-Pound Weight Stack Restoration is Complete

April 25, 2016 Office

It’s official: NIST’s 4.45-million newton (equivalent to one million pounds-force) deadweight machine – the largest in the world – is back in one piece after a colossal 16-month effort to overhaul the system for the […]

Head to Head: Photonic Pressure Sensors vs. Mercury-Based Standard

April 21, 2016 Office

When a team of researchers at NIST’s Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) first tested a new kind of pressure sensor two years ago, initial results showed it was faster and had higher resolution than the traditional, […]

Take F2: NIST’s Latest, Most Accurate Time Standard Debuts

April 9, 2014 Office

April 3, 2014, BOULDER, Colo. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has officially launched a new atomic clock, called NIST-F2, to serve as a new U.S. civilian time […]

NIST Gives Astronomers a Better Ruler in the Search for Extrasolar Planets

March 26, 2014 Office

NIST Tech Beat March 26, 2014 – Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have rejuvenated a technique for finding planets near distant stars.* New measurements of light from special lamps could […]

E.U. and U.S. to Extend Scientific Cooperation on Measurements and Standards

July 23, 2013 Office

From: NIST’s Tech Beat July 23, 2013 The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) agreed to expand their current scientific cooperation to […]

NIST Radio Station WWVB Logs 50 Years of Innovation

June 26, 2013 Office

NIST Tech Beat for June 25, 2013 Fifty years ago on July 5, 1963, a modest radio station in Fort Collins, Colo., officially went on the airwaves—a landmark event for U.S. industry and the American […]

NIST Office of Weights & Measures Receives ‘Continuing Education’ Accreditation

June 21, 2013 Office

From NIST Tech Beat: June 20, 2013 Contact: Mark Esser 301-975-8735 The International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) has awarded the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) an “Authorized Provider” accreditation. IACET […]

NIST Goes the Distance for the Olympics

June 27, 2012 Office

In yet another Olympian feat of measurement, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently calibrated a tape that will be used to measure out the distance of this summer’s Olympic marathon—a […]