The Materials Science and Engineering Division is dedicated to the research and development of materials measurement science, standards, technology, and data. It supports the National Institute of ...

The world’s measurement system will be based on updated values for four fundamental constants of nature. A revised SI ( the International System of Units ) based fully on accurate values of these ...

Improvements to the SI are helping to evolve the science of accuracy and measurement. Democratization of the SI creates a traceability calibration chain accessible to anyone, anywhere. Digitization of ...

I was watching Ben Krasnow making iron nitride permanent magnets and was struck by the fact that about half of the video was about making a magnetometer – a device for measuring and characterizing the ...

Scientists successfully measured an event using zeptoseconds, which is an incredibly brief fraction of a second. The time it took for a photo to pass through a hydrogen molecule was measured at 247 ...

Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology (APM), CAS has the following research output in the current window (1 December 2024 - 30 November 2025) of the Nature Index. Click ...

Imagine a physicist observing a quantum system whose behavior is akin to a coin toss: it could come up heads or tails. They perform the quantum coin toss and see heads. Could they be certain that ...

The NMI Measurement Awards celebrate outstanding achievements in measurement, spanning all industries and experience levels.This year's awards are:the ...