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A biweekly news digest from the
National Institute of Standards and Technology
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OCTOBER 5, 2021
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Editor's Note
This month began with Manufacturing Day, an annual celebration showcasing modern manufacturers. Every year NIST shares their stories, and today’s issue contains a special Manufacturing Day section showcasing new videos, blog posts and profiles of innovators in the field. Their achievements include improving accuracy in factory robots, pivoting operations during the pandemic, and helping to diversify the workforce in the biopharmaceutical industry. Enjoy the issue!
—Ben P. Stein, Managing Editor
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JILA’s Comb Breathalyzer Is Now a Thousandfold More Sensitive to Disease Biomarkers
The system, based on frequency comb technology, could eventually offer real-time analysis of human breath to detect and monitor diseases.
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Making Measurements With a Fine-Toothed Comb
The optical frequency comb is a ruler for light. Yet it's so much more.
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NIST and the Nobel
It's Nobel season! Learn about NIST's laureates and its many connections to Nobel Prize-winning science over the past century, including a newly updated section on NIST's interactions with Ernest Rutherford, Irene Joliot-Curie and others.
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Working to Improve Small-Scale MRIs: My Summer as a SURF Student at NIST
Emily Buchanan explains how remote work has actually increased opportunities to collaborate with researchers.
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Hispanic Heritage Month continues through October 15! Get to know some of our Hispanic/Latino staff and their inspirations in our ongoing Twitter thread.
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MANUFACTURING DAY 2021 |
This Manufacturing Day, we’re underscoring the diversity of NIST manufacturing research by showcasing work in structural biology and robotics.
Take a look at this small but mighty manufacturer that embodies what it means to step up to the pandemic’s challenges and use manufacturing to help its community in trying times.
Learn how one manufacturer, with the help from its local Manufacturing Extension Partnership center, was able to innovate and pivot during challenging times.
NIST’s sponsored Manufacturing USA institute, NIIMBL, created the NIIMBL eXperience to offer undergraduate students from historically Black colleges and universities real-world insight into careers in the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry.
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MORE NEWS AND EVENTS |
From the Joint Quantum Institute: Researchers have made progress toward ensuring that we can trust the results of quantum computers even when they are built from pieces that can fail.
NIST researchers and others who are carrying out activities connected to White House Executive Order 14028, Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, will provide an update on their progress and next steps in a webinar on Oct. 14 from 1:00 p.m.-2:15 p.m. EDT. Register now for this free event.
To help solve the largest challenges facing the first responder community, NIST often reaches out to private companies, academic researchers, hobbyists and other experts.
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 An experimental breathalyzer identifies biomarkers of disease by measuring the colors and amounts of light absorbed as a laser frequency comb passes through breath samples inside a glass tube. See how it works in our new video.
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