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A biweekly news digest from the
National Institute of Standards and Technology
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MARCH 27, 2024
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The Sound of Soot: How a Strange Noise Can Keep Us Safer From Fires
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Where there’s fire, there is soot. And where there is soot, there is … noise.
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 Houston, We Have the Engine Remnants: How My Lab Pieced Together a Forgotten Part of an Apollo Rocket
Retrieved from the Atlantic Ocean floor, a turbine blade from the Saturn V’s rocket engine recently made its way to NIST’s campus in Maryland for analysis.
 Bullseye! NIST Devises a Method to Accurately Center Quantum Dots Within Photonic Chips
A microscopy technique could improve the reliability of quantum information technologies, biological imaging and more.
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From Bookmobiles to Big Data, How Library Scientists Make Information Accessible to All
During Women’s History Month, a NIST librarian looks back at the librarian who brought us the bookmobile — back when it brought books by horse and buggy.
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Phantoms are scientific devices that mimic properties of human tissue and help ensure that the methods used in medical imaging, like an MRI, are accurate. However, brain phantoms pose a series of special challenges. In honor of Brain Awareness Week, read on LinkedIn about NIST’s work to develop an anatomically accurate reference model of the human brain and the lessons they learned from it.
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MORE NEWS FROM NIST |
Stine headed ITL’s Applied Cybersecurity Division, where he oversaw development of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
In honor of Women’s History Month, an industry leader reflects on her career and the future of women in manufacturing.
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 We've just launched a video version of our popular web series How Do You Measure It? In our first installment, on YouTube Shorts, learn how scientists test body armor.
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For Good Measure
When you think of NIST, history may not be the first thing that comes to mind. But NIST researchers do a surprisingly wide variety of work related to historical preservation. This issue features a blog post on how researchers studied turbine blades from Saturn V rocket engines, providing insights on which materials were used for the turbine blades. If you are a history buff, you can learn how NIST has also helped preserve the Charters of Freedom, Emancipation Proclamation, the map with the first documented appearance of the word “America,” as well as the Kennedy assassination bullets and Hungarian Crown jewels.
—Ben P. Stein, Managing Editor
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