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Technique could permit detection of electric fields in hard-to-reach places, with potential security value.

For the first time, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created and imaged a new pair of quantum dots...

High-resolution camera made of 1,024 sensors that count single photons, or particles of light.

The most common way to check if someone has a fever without a thermometer is to feel the forehead or neck with the back...

Nanowire gurus at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that, thanks to a special type of...

5G will be a system of systems that extend far beyond radio. 5G systems will avoid crowded conventional wireless channels by using higher, millimeter-wave frequency...

A newly developed experimental atomic clock can precisely tick to improve timekeeping and navigation. It additionally can detect signals from gravity, the early universe and...

To what extent can tiny gears and other microscopic moving parts last before they destroy? What are the warning signs that these segments are...

Scientists at the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) have developed an efficient converter that enlarges the diameter of a light beam by...

Silver nanoparticles measuring between one and 100 nanometers (billionth of a meter) in size are being incorporated outside the United States into a variety...

The kilogram is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), and is defined as being equal to the mass...

For the first ever time, JILA scientists have confined groups of a couple of atoms and precisely estimated their multi-particle cooperations inside an atomic clock....