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A biweekly news digest from the
National Institute of Standards and Technology
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JUNE 18, 2024
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NIST Brings Mass Measurements to the Masses
Making its cutting-edge invention available to the larger world for the first time, NIST has delivered a portable Kibble balance to the U.S. Army.
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NIST Launches Collaborative Research Effort on Digital Identity to Support Secure Delivery of Public Benefits
The project will adapt NIST’s digital identity guidelines to support public benefits programs, such as those that help people pay for food, housing and medical expenses.
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 Research Finds Dolphins With Elevated Mercury Levels in Florida and Georgia
New study could inform future research on mercury in populations living in the affected areas.
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Your Future Medications Could Be Personalized for You on a 3D Printer
NIST research scientist Thomas P. Forbes and his colleagues are working on ways to make sure that 3D drug printers are safe and effective.
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NIST Researchers Measure Greenhouse Gases During the Solar Eclipse
Learn about some of the latest findings and activities of NIST researchers in this roundup of recent social media highlights.
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Extreme weather and climate-induced disasters, such as hurricanes, can have tremendous impacts. To determine the impact their wind speeds can have on buildings, NIST researchers are using wind tunnel testing on scaled models of buildings in Puerto Rico, known for being a highly mountainous region. Learn more on LinkedIn.
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MORE NEWS FROM NIST |
NIST’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) centers are expanding their scope from working primarily with individual companies to include a more comprehensive approach to manufacturing supply chains.
When a signed original copy of the Emancipation Proclamation arrived at the Smithsonian in 2017, curators asked NIST engineers to craft a special encasement for the cherished proclamation. This week we celebrate the Juneteenth holiday, commemorating emancipation’s full reach across the country in 1865.
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AWARDS AND HONORS |
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Alexey Gorshkov, a NIST physicist and JQI Fellow, was honored for his research contributions in the areas of understanding, designing and controlling interacting quantum systems.
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 The widespread adoption of 3D drug printing will require strict quality control measures to make sure people get the right medication at the right dose. See how the drug printing process works in our new video.
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For Good Measure
It goes way beyond our bathroom scales: Accurate mass measurements are important for everything from the safety of pharmaceuticals to the fairness of prices for produce and other goods sold by weight. The state-of-the-art mass measurement device known as the Kibble balance helped to bring about the modern definition of the kilogram, but it is a giant laboratory instrument. So NIST researchers miniaturized the Kibble into a tabletop version and, as we reported in this issue, have made it available to the larger world. Kibble balance technology also has spun off into other applications, such as enabling highly accurate measurements of torque. Expect the Kibble balance to continue to make a massive impact, especially now that other organizations can have their own.
—Ben P. Stein, Managing Editor
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