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The public meetings will include updates on NIST’s investigations into the impacts of Hurricane Maria and the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South.

Impurities in these drugs can cause undesirable immune responses in patients and can significantly drive up costs for drug manufacturers.

NIST is soliciting comments from the public on the draft until Sept. 12, and the agency is planning a virtual event to showcase the project and gather feedback on Aug. 27.

Currently there are no reliable roadside tests to determine when a person consumed cannabis or how intoxicated they are as a result.

The award recognizes Maranghides for 25 years of work investigating devastating wildfires in the United States and creating actionable guidelines on how to save lives and property.

NIST and collaborating institutions have released extensive data about the genome of pancreatic cancer cells.

This new result contributes to the international effort to define the second with a much greater level of accuracy than before, enabling new scientific and technological advances.

As NIST’s National Construction Safety Team nears the end of its investigation, it has released a video update that highlights significant milestones and preliminary findings.

This development could support improved cancer treatments, nuclear fuel reprocessing for advanced reactors and other fields.

Scientists develop new impact-resistant material based on the exoskeleton of the mantis shrimp.

The update reviews the investigation’s history, shares preliminary findings and highlights potential impacts.

In this role, Sunder will provide leadership and oversight to NIST’s laboratories, which provide vital measurement and research services that underpin technology innovation in the United States.

Broadcast as a free public service, the beacon can be used anywhere an independent source of random numbers would be useful, such as selecting jury candidates or assigning resources through a lottery.

The examples use off-the-shelf commercial technologies, giving organizations valuable starting points.

NIST is helping drug companies accurately measure the amount of radioactivity in their actinium-225 drugs.

Reliable measurements of the light from our planet can help industries from agriculture to meteorology to mining.

NIST scientists have published results establishing a new atomic clock, NIST-F4, as one of the world’s most accurate timekeepers.

The ESCAPE report redefines how to save lives in the face of fast-moving wildfires.

In a physics first, a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a way to make beams of neutrons travel in curves. These Airy beams (named for English scientist George Airy), which the team

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