I am Harry Hertz, the Baldrige Cheermudgeon, and Director Emeritus of the Baldrige Program. I joined the Program in 1992 after a decade in management in the…

Credit: NIST In honor of NIST’s 125th anniversary this year, anonymous donors commissioned a piece of music to honor NIST and its contributions to science and industry.…

Kelly Sauerwein is a physical scientist with the Special Programs Office at NIST. Credit: M. King/NIST As a person who studies how bodies decompose, I think a…

NIST researcher Susana Deustua works on a telescope.  Credit: M. King/NIST Many of modern astronomy’s achievements can be traced back to relatively unknown women who painstakingly cataloged…

Credit: BIPM/NIST The modern metric system — known as the International System of Units, or SI — is a model of consistency and logic. But in some…

Actor Ryan Gosling plays a science teacher in Project Hail Mary. Credit: Shutterstock/lev radin Let’s be honest here. If you’re a scientist — or, in our case,…

Credit: NIST On March 23, 1916, officials and citizens gathered in Washington, D.C., to celebrate a new era in the nation’s ability to measure. Secretary of Commerce William…

Authored by Drew Keller, Ryan Steed, Stevie Bergman, and the Applied Systems Team at CAISIBuilding gold-standard AI systems requires gold-standard AI measurement science – the scientific study…