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Since the mid-1990s, a type of steel column that commonly features slender cross-sectional elements has become more prevalent in buildings along the West Coast of the United States and in other seismically active regions.
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are currently studying the impact of trees on the transmission of millimeter waves responsible for 5G technology in an effort to solve the technology’s limited ability to penetrate objects.
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The report highlights tech transfer success stories from the agencies throughout fiscal year 2020.
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As 5G technology gets fully implemented over the next several years, cellphones and other wireless tech will grow more powerful with increased data flow and lower latency.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected Joannie Chin to lead its Engineering Laboratory. Chin has been at NIST for 26 years, most recently serving as acting director of the Engineering Lab.
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Sneezes, rain clouds, and ink jet printers: They all produce or contain liquid droplets so tiny it would take several billion of them to fill a liter bottle.
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Sneezes, rain clouds, and ink jet printers: They all produce or contain liquid droplets so tiny it would take several billion of them to fill a liter bottle.
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A team of researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Columbia Engineering have identified a new method for increasing the durability of materials, according to a NIST press release.
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Columbia Engineering have discovered a new method to improve the toughness of materials that could lead to stronger versions of body armor, bulletproof glass and other ballistic equipment.
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JILA researchers have tricked nature by tuning a dense quantum gas of atoms to make a congested “Fermi sea,” thus keeping atoms in a high-energy state, or excited, for about 10% longer than usual by delaying their normal return to the lowest-energy state.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued the following press release: