National Science Foundation - Where Discoveries Begin

Hurricanes: Stronger, slower, wetter in the future?

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Rice U. researchers enhance boron nitride nanotubes for next-gen composites

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Annotation tool provides step toward understanding links between disease, mutant RNA

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Study finds no evidence of natural gas from fracking in Ohio drinking water

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A new map for a birthplace of stars

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Insect gene allows reproductive organs to cope with harmful bacteria

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Self-assembling 3-D battery would charge in seconds

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Supercomputing the emergence of material behavior

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Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared

Discovery

Researchers control the properties of graphene transistors using pressure

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What we inherited from our bug-eating ancestors

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Lifting the economy on hawks' wings

Discovery

Pollution-related disease presents global environmental challenge

Discovery

Dozens of binaries from Milky Way's globular clusters could be detectable by LISA

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Mother’s Day Q&A: Science to help mothers in the workforce

Discovery

Statement on Artificial Intelligence for American Industry

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How turning down the heat makes a baby turtle male

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Strain improves performance of atomically thin semiconductor material

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Neuroscientists find first evidence animals can mentally replay past events

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Making molecular movies

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Students monitor local pollution

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USAF and NSF announce partnership in science and engineering research

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Statement on Teacher Appreciation Week 2018

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Penn engineers’ liquid assembly line make drug microparticles a thousand times faster than ever before

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The joy of neurons: A simplified 'cookbook' for engineering brain cells to study disease

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Leafcutter ants' success due to more than crop selection

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Stopping hackers, protecting businesses

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Measuring snow persistence can help predict streamflow

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