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2008 Topic Title
February 24 Computing Cross-Dressing Rubidium May Reveal Clues for Exotic Computing
Quantum Researchers Demonstrate Novel ‘Quantum Data Buffering’ Scheme
Time Colorado Governor Ritter Honors NIST Internet Time Service
January 13 New Tool New Tool Gives Researchers a Glimpse of Biomolecules in Motion
Supersolids Simply Weird Stuff: Making Supersolids with Ultracold Gas Atoms
December 23 JILA JILA Story Makes Physics ‘Top Ten’ List
Time Wherefore a Leap Second?
December 9 APS Fellows Nine NIST Staff Become New APS Fellows
November 25 Award NIST Physicist Wins OSA’s First Walther Award
Standards Bright Idea Illuminates LED Standards
November 12 Optical Tweezers Femtomolar Optical Tweezers' May Enable Sensitive Blood Tests
October 28 Nanoscale Nanoscale Dimensioning Is Fast, Cheap with New NIST Optical Technique
Award NIST Physicist Honored in 2008 Presidential Rank Awards
October 14 Quantum First Tunable, 'Noiseless' Amplifier May Boost Quantum Computing, Communications
Nonostars Gold Nanostars Outshine the Competition
AAAS Fellow Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
October 1 Ultracold Molecules JILA Scientists Create First Dense Gas of Ultracold ‘Polar’ Molecules
September 16 Quantum NSF Physics Frontier Center Created at Joint Quantum Institute
Awards NIST Physicists are Finalists for Service to America Medals
September 3 Awards NIST Physicist Wineland Awarded 2007 National Medal of Science
August 19 Quantum Light Touch: Controlling the Behavior of Quantum Dots
August 6 Atomic Gases New Technique Reveals Hidden Properties of Ultracold Atomic Gases
Chemistry Skipping Atomic-scale Stones to Study Some Chemistry Basics
Cryptography Vegas ‘Quantum Spookshow’ Demos On-the-Fly Encryption of Streaming Video
June 24 Photoresists Exposing the Sensitivity of Extreme Ultraviolet Photoresists
Lighting Standards Set for Energy-Conserving LED Lighting
Mathematics NIST Releases Preview of Much-Anticipated Online Mathematics Reference
Quantum Physicists Produce Quantum-Entangled Images
June 10 International System of Units (SI) Everything You Want To Know About SI (But Were Afraid to Ask)
May 13 Record-setting Laser Record-setting Laser May Aid Searches for Earthlike Planets
Metrics NIST Offers U.S. Interpretations of Recent SI (Metric) Changes
April 29 Rydberg constant High-Flying Electrons May Provide New Test of Quantum Theory
Awards Two New Honors for NIST Physicists
April 15 Nanodrop 'Nanodrop' Test Tubes Created with a Flip of a Switch
March 18 Photons Photons Clarify 'Spookiness' of Quantum Physics
  Time 'Quantum Logic Clock' Rivals Mercury Ion as World's Most Accurate Clock
  Ultracold Atoms Stunt Doubles: Ultracold Atoms Could Replicate the Electron 'Jitterbug'
  Neutrons NIST Detector Can 'See' Single Neutrons Over Broad Range
March 5 Magnetometer NIST Mini Sensor May 'Change the Way We Live'
February 19 NMR "NMR on a Chip" Features NIST Magnetic Mini-Sensor
  Frequency Comb Optical "Frequency Comb" Can Detect the Breath of Disease
  Time New Strontium Atomic Clock at JILA is "Best in Class"
  Phillips' Video New NIST Video: Bill Phillips School Talk on the Science of Ultracold
January 23 Quantum Dots JILA Solves Problem of Quantum Dot 'Blinking'
  WWVH NIST Radio Station WWVH Gets Antenna Makeover
January 8 Radioactive Radioactive "Understudy" May Aid Medical Imaging, Drug Development
 
2007 Topic Title
December 12 Egypt NIST Helps Beam Time to TV Viewers in the Middle East
November 27 BEC NIST Announces First Observation of "Persistent Flow" in a Gas
November 8 Malaria Bug-Zapper: A Dose of Radiation May Help Knock Out Malaria
  Magnetometer Mini Magnetic Sensor May Have Biomedical, Security Applications
  PECASE NIST Researchers Receive Early Career Presidential Awards
October 25 Awards Staff Honored in 2007 Presidential Rank Awards
  Paul D. Lett NIST Physicist Honored for Measuring Forces between Ultra-cool Atoms
October 11 Fusion Power NIST Light Source Illuminates Fusion Power Diagnostics
September 27 Speed Limit "Dead Time" Limits Quantum Cryptography Speeds
September 13 Laser Cooling "Radio Wave Cooling" Offers New Twist on Laser Cooling
  DNA Elasticity JILA Finds Flaw in Model Describing DNA Elasticity
August 30 Finalist JILA Physicist is Finalist for Service to America Medal
  Nanotube Longer is Better for Nanotube Optical Properties
August 16 Nanoscale Blasting Nanoscale Blasting Adjusts Resistance in Magnetic Sensors
August 3 Damping Changing the Rings: A Key Finding for Magnetics Design
  Quantum Dance Thousands of Atoms Swap "Spins" in Quantum Square Dance
July 20 Graphene Speed Bumps Less Important Than Potholes for Graphene
July 6 Semiconductor Electronic "Crowd Behavior" Revealed in Semiconductors
June 8 Key New Quantum Key System Combines Speed, Distance
  Awards Three NIST Researchers Receive Flemming Awards
May 24 Atom NIST Atom Interferometry Displays New Quantum Tricks
  Honors Honors for NIST Researchers Announced
May 10 Tiny Tiny Spectrometer Offers Precision Laser Calibration
  Network "Tunable" Network Features Coordinated Frequency Combs
  NVLP New Accreditation Program for Radiation Detector Labs
  SEMATECH NIST-SEMATECH Workshop on Scatterometry Standards
April 12 Photons Mass Weddings: NIST's New Efficient 2-Photon Source
  Lasers Quantum Dot Lasers: One Dot Makes All the Difference
  Nanotubes NIST's Stretching Exercises Shed New Light on Nanotubes
March 16 JILA New JILA Apparatus Measures Fast Nanoscale Motions
March 1 Quantum Atom "Noise" May Help Design Quantum Computers
  Clock Atomic Clock Signals May Be Best Shared by Fiber-Optics
  Cold A Very Cold Evening with Nobelist Bill Phillips
  APS NIST's Jim Bergquist Wins APS Herbert P. Broida Prize
February 15 Spin Disorder May Be in Order for "Spintronic" Devices
  Clock Clock Comparison Yields Clues to "Constant" Change
  Casimir JILA Measurements Recast Usual View of Elusive Force
  Combs New 2D Pics Brush Up Image of NIST "Frequency Combs"
January 19 Time Countries Share Good Times Using GPS and the Internet
  Art "Silicon Ion Trap," Joe Britton
 
2006 Topic Title
December 21 Neutrons Team Records Rare Glimpses of Light from Neutrons
  Vortex "Vortex Lattices" May Help Explain Material Defects
December 7 Spin Mechanical Motion Used to "Spin" Atoms in a Gas
  Ticks New Strontium Atomic Clock Has Super-Fine "Ticks"
November 9 Tornado "Tornadoes" Are Transferred From Light to Sodium Atoms
Rank NIST Staff Honored in 2006 Presidential Rank Awards
Wineland Wineland Named to 2006 "Scientific American 50"
Rabi NIST Physicist Receives APS I.I. Rabi Prize
October 26 Hybrid New Hybrid Microscope Probes Nano-Electronics
Refining Novel Atom Refining Boosts Entanglement of Atom Pairs
O'Brian O'Brian Named Director of NIST Boulder Laboratories
September 28 Emergency Emergency Tests Focus on Lab Radioactivity Analyses
Award NIST Physicist Awarded Service to America Medal
September 14 Maryland NIST, U. Md. and NSA Create Joint Quantum Institute
Small Small, Low-noise Oscillator May Help in Surveillance
August 31 Gold Gold Nanoparticles Prove to Be Hot Stuff
August 17 Atomic "Atomic Switch" Experiments Expand Nanoscale Toolkit
  Advanced Advanced Imaging Facility Watches Fuel Cells at Work
August 3 Two Two NIST Researchers Earn Presidential Honors
July 20 Micro "Micro-boxes" of Water Used to Study Single Molecules
  Mercury Mercury Atomic Clock Sets Time-Keeping Record
July 6 Ion New Ion Trap May Lead to Large Quantum Computers
  UM NIST, UM Program To Support Nanotech Development
June 8 Three Three NIST Scientists Receive Flemming Awards
May 25 Nobel NIST Nobelists Testify on Science Policy
April 28 Laser Laser Trapping of Erbium May Lead to Novel Devices
  Measurements Measurements May Help Show If Constants Are Changing
April 13  Beyond Beyond the Kilogram: Redefining More SI Units
March 30 Quantum Quantum Dot Method Rapidly Identifies Bacteria
  NIST NIST/ORNL Dedicate New Nuclear Medicine Lab
  March "March Madness" Effects Observed in Ultracold Gases
March 16 Comb Optical "Comb" Allows Powerful Chemical Analysis
  Liquid New "Liquid Lens" Data for Immersion Lithography
March 6 Pancakes Experimental Atomic Clock Uses Ytterbium "Pancakes"
February 16 Method Method May Help Optimize Light-emitting Semiconductors
  Telecom Telecom Meeting to Focus on Emerging Networks
February 2 Stable Stable Polymer Nanotubes May Have a Biotech Future
January 17 Floppy Experiments Help Explain "Floppy" Space Molecule
 
SURF NIST Summer Research Jobs, Applications Due Feb. 15

2005 Topic Title
December 22 Einstein Einstein Was Right (Again): NIST/MIT Confirm E=mc2
  New Year Enjoy New Year's Eve a Second Longer!
December 1 Cat Physicists Coax Six Atoms into Quantum "Cat" State
  Long "Long" Distances Measured with Picometer Accuracy
November 17 Two Two Universities Get Grants for Precision Measurements
  Nobel Nobel Laureate wins Presidential Rank Award
November 3 Tool Tool Tackles Translucence and Other Color Challenges
October 20 Chains Magnetic Nanoparticles Assembled into Long Chains
  Collide Ultrafast Lasers Take 'Snapshots' as Atoms Collide
  Honored NIST Physicist Honored for Technological Innovation
October 7 Nobel NIST/JILA Fellow Shares Nobel Prize in Physics
  GPS NIST Method Improves Reliability of GPS Clocks
September 23 Clock NIST Atomic Fountain Clock Gets Much Better with Time
  Radiation Meeting on New Technologies and Radiation Measurements
August 26 Forum Industrial Physics Forum: Innovation Infrastructure
August 9 Bits NIST Demonstrates Better Memory with Quantum Computer Bits
  Clocks Tandem Ions May Lead the Way to Better Atomic Clocks
  Guide New Guide Is Timely for Radio Controlled Clocks, Watches
July 26 JILA Compact JILA System Stabilizes Laser Frequency
July 13 JILA JILA Study of RNA Dynamics May Help in Drug Design
  UV Optics Predicting the Lifetime of Extreme UV Optics
June 5 Method New NIST Method Improves Accuracy of Spectrometers
  Flemming Flemming Awards Received by Four NIST Researchers
May 18 Quantum Quantum Computing Results May Help in Code Breaking
  Ruler World's First UV "Ruler" Sizes Up Atomic World
May 5 Jin Jin Elected to National Academy of Sciences
April 21 Detectors Portable Radiation Detectors Generally Meet Standards
  Shine X-Rays Shine Light on High-Intensity Gas Lamps
April 12 Light Light Scattering Method Reveals Details under Skin
  NIST NIST and University of Colorado Establish Partnership
March 24 Atoms Noisy Pictures Tell a Story of 'Entangled' Atoms
  Utah NIST, Utah State Collaborate on Sensor Technology
March 10 Telecommunications Workshop on Synchronization in Telecommunications
February 24 Kilogram Experts Urge Redefinition Of the Kilogram
February 10 Anchors Experiments Prove Existence of Atomic Chain "Anchors"
  Vision Devising Nano Vision for an Optical Microscope
January 26 Experiments Lab Experiments Mimic a Star's Energy Bursts
January 5 Tiny Detector Tiny, Atom-based Detector Senses Weak Magnetic Fields
  Zigzag Novel Zigzag Shape Gives Sensors Magnetic Appeal
 
2004 Topic Title
December 8 Repair Kit A Data "Repair Kit" for Quantum Computers
November 24 Ultrafast Ultrafast Laser Speeds Up Quest for Atomic Control
November 10 Optical Nose Designing an Ultrasensitive "Optical Nose" for Chemicals
  Jin Scientific American Dubs Jin "Research Leader of the Year"
  Gebbie Gebbie Honored as a AAAS Fellow
October 14 Light Super Slow Light May Help Speed Optical Communications
September 14 Hip-Hop Scientists Tame "Hip-Hop" Atoms
  Quick Links Two NIST Scientists Earn Presidential Award
August 30 Chip-Scale Chip-Scale Atomic Clock Unveiled by NIST
  Atomic Scientists Observe "Atomic Air Force"
  Nanoscale Lighting the Way to Better Nanoscale Films
July 30 Quick Links Two National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Finalists for Service to America Awards
July 15 Nanospheres A Safer Way to Make Metal Nanospheres
July 2 Quick Links Scientists Discover New Interstellar Molecules
June 16 Teleporting Teleporting Quantum States From One Atom to Another
  Quantum Quantum Mechanical "Tune Up" for Better Measurement
  Quick Links Three NIST Employees Win Flemming Awards
May 7 Quantum System Sets Speed Record for Quantum Encryption
  Quick Links Two NIST Researchers Earn Presidential Honors
April 23 Rainbow Portable "Rainbow" Source Improves Color Calibrations
March 25 Clocks World's Best "Rulers" Will Make Better Clocks
March 11 Light Light Wave Measurements Make Circuits Better
February 26 Water Using Water as a Lens To Shrink Chip Dimensions
January 30 Fermion New Form of Matter Created: A Fermionic Condensate
January 16 Constants New Values for Fundamental Constants
 
2003 Topic Title
December 19 Time Greeting Another New Year Without a Leap Second
November 21 Super Molecule Researchers Create Bose-Einstein "Super Molecule"
October 23 Neutrons Only 15 Minutes of Life, No Fame, for Lone Neutrons
October 10 Jin NIST Physicist Wins MacArthur 'Genius' Grant
September 26 Cells Tiny "Test Tubes" May Aid Pharmaceutical R&D
  Quick Links Ionizing Radiation
August 11 Signs New NIST Facility Soon Will Be "Reflecting" on Safer Signs
  Radiation Finding Dirty Bombs and Other Radiation Threats
July 25 Liquid Lenses "Liquid Lenses" May Shrink Feature Sizes on Microchips
  Physics Ultracold Experiments Pave Way for Super Molecule
January/February Environment Improved Ocean Color Mapping When the NIST SIRCUS Is in Town
  Physics "Stone Cold" Video Showcases NIST's Hunt for New State of Matter
  Trivia Tech Trivia - David Wineland of NIST
 
2002 Topic Title
October/November Time NIST Helping Prepare an "Out of This World" Atomic Clock
  Tech Trivia  
July/August Time and Frequency A Notary Public for the Digital Age
May/June Time Need the Time or Need to Know About Time ... Go to NIST!
January/February Time NIST Helps Ensure Well-Timed Sledding at Winter Olympics
 
  2001 Topic Title
September Environment Turning Seaweed into a Scientific Tool
July/August Physics Supercold Atoms Dance to the Beat of the "Bosenova"
June Time For the Time of Your Life, Call NIST
May Tech Trivia Some notable female scientists during NIST's first century
March Physics Tiny Structures Are Focus for New NIST Facility
February Physics Getting the Better of Einstein-For Once
 
2000 Topic Title
December Safety Turning Tragedy into a Better Understanding of Radiation Effects
  Time Party at Midnight on New Year's Eve ... Again!
  Centennial December Milestones Lined the Path to Closed Captioning on TV
  Tech Trivia The "ultimate standard of length" in 1951
November Time NIST Helps Ensure Well-Timed Sledding at Next Winter Olympics
  Centennial Radiation Standards Helped X-Rays Do More Good than Harm
October Health NIST Makes Measureable Improvements in Mammography
  Centennial If the Phone Rings Before Dawn in October, Hope It's Sweden Calling
September Centennial In the Rockies' Shadow, Boulder Labs Achieve Mountainous Results
August Quantum Computing NIST Taming Atoms to Power Future Super Computers
July NIST Centennial July Records Milestones in Time and Frequency Broadcasting
  Trivia William D. Phillips, shared the Nobel Physics Prize in 1997.
May Physics For Frequency Measurements, One Laser Is Better Than Several
April Physics MDs Rely on NIST Standards for New Cancer, Heart Therapies
March Physics Atoms, Check Your Engines!
February Physics Two Places at Once? NIST Shows It's Only for Atoms
January Physics Trapping Neutrons May Capture Bigger Prize--Peek at Big Bang
  Tech Trivia NIST/U.S. Naval Observatory web site, www.time.gov
 
1999 Topic Title
December Physics Bose Einstein Models Make Beautiful, Superfluid Images
  Tech Trivia History of Timekeeping Exhibit Opens at National Museum of American History in Washington, DC
October Internet New Web Site Puts Atomic Time on Your Computer
  Space Two NIST Labs Help Chandra Explore the Universe
August Physics Education Cool New Web Site Offers Physics History Lesson
July Astrophysics Lunar Reflector Still on the Job After 30 Years
  Time Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
May Time NIST Tells Time--6.5 Million Times a Day
April Tech Trivia NIST was twice listed in the Guinness Book of World Records
March Health NIST Improves Accuracy of Radioactive Prostate Seeds
 
1998 Topic Title
December Leap Second Leap Second Scheduled for New Year's Eve
  Physics Is it Half Enough? NIST Measures Titanium-44 Half-Life
July Tech Trivia Strong Magnetic Fields on Stellar Surfaces
First Trapping of Neutral Atoms
June Tech Trivia NIST Web Clock
May Nanostructures Nanowired! NIST Makes New Nanostructures
  Video New NIST Video Shows Hot Research on Cold Atoms
April Tech Trivia President's Cup Regatta
February Space Atomic Clock in Space Will Raise Accuracy to New Heights
January Astronomy Physicists Probe Puzzles of Heavy Metal Stars
  Tech Trivia Mauna Loa Observatory
 
1997 Topic Title
November Physics Really Cool Laser Experiments Net NIST Physicist Nobel Prize
  Tech Trivia Measuring the distance from the Earth to the moon
  Tech Trivia The first atomic clock in 1949
September Vibrations The Quietest Place on Earth
  Tech Trivia NIST radiopharmaceutical standard
  Tech Trivia The Fall of Parity
May Chemistry Technique Pairs Quick Imaging and Chemical Analysis
  Tech Trivia Coordinated Universal Time
  Tech Trivia Radio Stations, WWV and WWVH
January Color From Opal Frost to Plum, Colors Measure Up at NIST
  Biology Physicists Tweeze Viruses with Light
 
1996 Topic Title
November Environment Color Is the Clue to Ocean Organisms
  Tech Trivia Time-keeping Services
  Tech Trivia Radiation Therapy for Cancer
September Time You May Never Have to Reset a Clock Again
  Astronomy Scientists Find Vinegar Cloud in Milky Way
July Physics Being Here and There, Quantumly Speaking
  Tech Trivia Accurate, Safe, and Effective Radiation Doses
May Environment Researchers Find Irradiating Water Can Remove Pollution
  Health Radiation Treatments Could Aid Ailing Hearts
  Physics Nanoconstruction: Scientists Aim for Smaller Chips
March Health NIST Opens First U.S. National Standards Lab for Mammography
  Tech Trivia Time Measurements
January Time For the Best Time, Computers Can Call NIST
 
1995 Topic Title
November Art Restoration NIST Helps Smithsonian Restore Ancient Silk Paintings
  Radiation Boldly Going Where No Computer Code Has Gone Before
  Tech Trivia Time and Frequency from Atomic Clock
September Physics New State of Matter Proves Einstein Right
  Physics Laser Lens Draws Nanodots on Silicon
July Chemistry Caging Atoms in Buckyballs Holds Promise for Radiation Therapy
  Tech Trivia "Leap Seconds" Added to Time
  Tech Trivia Measuring UV Radiation
May Physics Neutrons Give Clues About Birth of the Universe
  Tech Trivia Closed TV Captioning
March Tech Trivia Scientific Prefixes: zetta-, yotta-, zepto-, and yocto-
January Standards Replace Kilogram Standard? NIST Weighs Options
 
1994 Topic Title
November Physics SURF's Up in NIST Physics Lab!
  Physics Lab Among the Hottest and Coldest Places on Earth
September Physics It's Cold! Cold! Cold! NIST Experiment Sets Record Low
  Health Forecast: Sunshine. UV Index Accuracy Starts at NIST
July Physics Electronic Eye Makes Best Brightness Measurements
  Physics What's Hot in Physics? Super-Cold Atoms in a Trap!
May Time Wait a Second or You'll Miss the Leap
March Environment NIST Technology Paving the Road to Cleaner Cars


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