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- Cryogenic Current Comparator provides the world's most accurate ratio of current, which together with the Quantum Hall effect allows resistance to be measured to very high accuracy.
- NPL helped ReactivLab test the quality of an essential ingredient used in a test for diagnosing canine disease.
- NPL develops a tool to visualise an important aspect of the performance of treatment heads used in physiotherapy ultrasound.
- NPL is collaborating with institutions across Europe to improve radioactivity measurements.
- On-site electric current measurement technology offers 839,000 tonnes of carbon savings and £250 million in economic benefit.
- The UK's clocks go forward one hour to BST at 01.00 UTC on Sunday 31 March 2013.
- Study shows that a low friction material tested at NPL could save an NHS Trust over £400,000 per year by helping to prevent bedsores in patients.
- NPL's historical achievements are recognised in the quest to find the greatest British innovation of the last 100 years.
- Research Scientist in NPL's Acoustics Group wins for his poster 'Improved Ultrasound of Breasts for Cancer Screening'.
- Paul Brewer's paper on NPL’s silver/silver chloride reference electrode research has won the CITAC Best Paper in Metrology in Chemistry Award 2012.
