Net-Zero House, Post-Quantum Cryptography

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The two-story net-zero house has an attached garage and solar panels on the roof.

A House Ahead of Its Time

A decade in, NIST’s superefficient “net zero” house continues to generate results and advance building science.

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Flames are devouring one side of a Christmas tree in a staged living-room scene inside a fire lab.

Safety Moon Shot: How Fire Research Cut Deaths by Half in a Generation

NIST research helped make the smoke alarm a standard part of our homes; it’s one of many ways our 50 years of fire research has made everyone safer.

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Historical photo shows three men standing next to a refrigerator-sized piece of machinery with an analog clock attached to the top.

How Atomic Clocks Have Changed Our World

We spend our days immersed in time. But where does time come from? How do we track it? The answers have evolved along with the technology.

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Three images in a row: a drawing of Wilhelm Weber, an electricity transmission tower and a magnet.

What’s in a Name? The Magnetic Weber

Dr. Wilhelm Weber (1804-1891) gets the distinction of having the unit of magnetic flux, the weber, named in his honor.

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MORE NEWS FROM NIST

NIST Selects 14 Candidate ‘Backup’ Algorithms for Digital Signature Encryption

As part of its continuing effort to secure digital information against the threat of future quantum computers, NIST is developing additional defenses that can serve as backups to the three post-quantum encryption standards it published in August and the one it plans to release in draft form later this year.

Job Opening: Director of Legislative Affairs

NIST is hiring a director of legislative affairs to lead a professional staff that serves as the interface between NIST and the U.S. Congress regarding science and technology plans and the evaluation of NIST's budgetary and policy needs.

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NEWS FROM CHIPS.GOV

Biden-Harris Administration Announces Sunnyvale, California, as Expected Location for Second CHIPS for America R&D Flagship Facility

A key part of the NSTC, this facility will drive the future of semiconductor innovation and collaboration.

Biden-Harris Administration Announces NY CREATES’ Albany NanoTech Complex as the First CHIPS for America R&D Flagship Facility and Planned Site for the Estimated $825 Million CHIPS for America EUV Accelerator

The New York facility will be a key part of the NSTC and is expected to drive innovation in EUV technology and strengthen U.S. semiconductor leadership.

Biden-Harris Administration Opens $100 Million Competition to Accelerate R&D and AI Technologies for Sustainable Semiconductor Materials

This program will increase the research capacity of emerging research institutions and the entire U.S. semiconductor innovation ecosystem.
Video title screen reads: Post Quantum Encryption.

This video featuring NIST’s Matthew Scholl describes how NIST has been working with the brightest minds in government, academia, and industry from around the world to develop a new set of encryption standards that will work with our current classical computers — while being resistant to the quantum machines of the future. Watch it on YouTube.

For Good Measure

A two-story, four-bedroom residential home sits just inside the main entrance of NIST’s Gaithersburg, Maryland, campus. The home’s beautiful exterior belies its true purpose: a laboratory for studying energy efficiency and related topics in a building that produces more energy than it consumes. Our latest feature article describes the 11-year history of the Net Zero Energy Residential Test Facility and its research on topics from indoor air quality to advanced insulation. We’ve covered the net-zero house over the years through various news articles and videos such as this one, and for even more information, check out the facility's project page.

—Ben P. Stein, Managing Editor