Printing With Sugar, Rebuilding an Atomic Clock, Preventing Tree Fires

Also in this issue: earthquake resilience, mobile home standards, fellowship opportunities

View as a Web Page A biweekly news digest from the National Institute of Standards and Technology DECEMBER 6, 2022 NIST Finds a Sweet New Way to Print Microchip Patterns on Curvy Surfaces An accidental discovery at NIST could improve the reach of microprinting using candy. Pretty sweet! READ MORE How to Rebuild an Atomic Clock (From JILA) And it's not just any old atomic clock. The NIST-F1 cesium clock, housed at the NIST laboratories in Boulder, Colorado, serves as the United States' primary time and frequency standard. READ MORE   Spotlight: Yalda Sadaat Delves Into the Backbone of Urban Life — Infrastructure As a postdoctoral researcher at NIST, Yalda Saadat joins a team of experts diving deep into the systems that support our lives and the way earthquakes affect them. READ MORE   Learn More About Measurement In this ongoing web series, we answer questions that will help you better understand how our modern world works — and why good measurements play an important role in your life. READ MORE Behind the Scenes: The Making of a NIST Holiday Special NIST's dramatic video about Christmas tree fires always gets lots of attention around the holidays. Find out more about how this standout of fire safety messaging was made. READ MORE You might be familiar with NIST for our work with atomic clocks, cryptography or artificial intelligence ... but what about mobile (manufactured) homes? We share the details on Facebook. SPECIAL SECTION: RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES Summer High School Intern Program (SHIP) SHIP is a NIST-wide summer intern program for students who will have finished their junior or senior year of high school by the start of the program and are interested in scientific research only. Learn more and apply by Feb. 13, 2023. Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) SURF is designed to inspire undergraduate students to pursue careers in STEM through a unique research experience that supports the NIST mission. Learn more and apply by Feb. 1, 2023. NIST NRC Postdoctoral Research Associateships Program The postdoctoral program, administered in cooperation with the National Research Council of the National Academies (NRC), brings research scientists and engineers of unusual promise and ability to perform advanced research related to the NIST mission. Learn more and apply by Feb. 1, 2023. Every holiday season, hundreds of residential fires start with a Christmas tree. This NIST video illustrates the dramatic difference between a fire started in a well-watered tree versus in a thirsty, neglected tree. Learn more about holiday fire safety on NIST's website. For Good Measure One of my favorite sayings in science is "To measure is to know," attributed to 19th-century British physicist Lord Kelvin, for whom the international unit of temperature is named. There are endless things to know about the world around us, and that's the firehose that feeds our ongoing "How Do You Measure It?" series. Consulting with NIST measurement science experts, we've covered topics ranging from how atomic clocks precisely measure the second and how to measure the acidity of the ocean to how companies determine your DNA ancestry and calculate the calories on nutrition labels and the alcohol content in wine and beer. If you have a question you'd like us to cover, please contact me, and we may answer it in a future installment! —Ben P. Stein, Managing Editor

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