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Garrett Asper prepares a multi-rotor drone for a series of test flights

NSF Graduate Research Fellow contribution to flight could aid disaster relief

With the devastating hurricanes that swept the southeastern United States at the end of 2024, new and better ways to get critical supplies to disaster…
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Podcast: Training artificial intelligence

Mingyi Hong, a professor at the University of Minnesota and NSF-funded researcher, discusses AI reinforcement learning strategies and the challenges…
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NSF advances 29 semifinalists in the second NSF Regional Innovation Engines competition

The U.S. National Science Foundation  Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) program announced the 29 semifinalists advancing to the next stage of…
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Illustration of quantum states, including a rippled surface and various round objects representing molecules.

Superconducting material stabilized at everyday pressure, another step toward real-world applications

U.S. National Science Foundation-funded researchers have stabilized a composite material in a superconducting state at ambient or normal, everyday…
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Chemical process more efficiently converts carbon dioxide to methanol, a chemical used in manufacturing and a potential fuel

A new chemical process funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation has produced methanol — a type of alcohol essential for manufacturing many…
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NSF invests $25.5M in research to drive new U.S. manufacturing technologies and talent pipelines

The U.S. National Science Foundation has announced a $25.5 million investment to support fundamental research and workforce development aimed at…
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On the left is an illustration of the experimental setup from this study.Molybdenum diselenide nanodots, represented by red triangles, are embedded in tungsten diselenide and encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) on top and bottom. See caption for additional details.

NSF-funded researchers' work on light contributes to nanodot breakthrough 

Americans spend a lot of time on their screens. The images on those screens are made of pixels — tiny dots that represent a single point of color…
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Many stars and galaxies including two spiral galaxies and three merging galaxies.

Ever-changing universe revealed in first imagery from NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a major new scientific facility jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department…
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A research team takes a boat down Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal to take samples.

Microbes from Brooklyn could help mitigate industrial contamination

Microorganisms with extreme abilities have laid the groundwork for decades of biotechnologies from the PCR technique that enables amplification of DNA…
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