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Civic Innovation Challenge awards support community-based solutions to mobility and disaster resilience

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NSF statement on President’s FY 2022 discretionary budget request

Press Statement

Identifying proteins using nanopores and supercomputers

Research News

Fate of sinking tectonic plates revealed

Research News

Statement by Director Sethuraman Panchanathan on Antarctica Day

Press Statement

Scientists fabricate material that can sense and adapt to the environment

Research News

Researchers conduct first study of passive solar energy as a residential heat source

Research News

Physically impaired wild mice survive and thrive

Research News

Nutritional value of giant kelp decreases as ocean temperatures increase

Research News

Amazon rainforest birds' bodies transform due to climate change

Research News

Snap! A record-breaking motion at our fingertips

Research News

Why did glacial cycles intensify a million years ago?

Research News

First global river database documents 40 years of changes

Research News

Using microbes to make carbon neutral fuel

Research News

Scientists find water billions of light years away

Research News

'Zapping' untreated water gets rid of more waterborne viruses

Research News

Survey of 1,800-plus 'young' volcanoes in the US Southwest

Research News

Scientists discover neutron star mergers a primary source of cosmic heavy metals

Research News

Fossils reveal how tusks first evolved and why they are unique to mammals

Research News

New technology uses body heat to power a wearable fever detector

Research News

Flash droughts: When, where and why?

Research News

Black spruce trees struggle to regenerate amid more frequent Arctic fires

Research News

Breath test detects severe COVID-19 infection in seconds

Research News

Scientists create artificial neural networks that detect symmetry and patterns

Research News

Scientists pinpoint genes for tuskless African elephants

Research News

Earliest evidence of herd living among dinosaurs

Research News

Photonic chip that isolates light could end size limitations in quantum computing and devices

Research News

Agricultural runoff contributes to climate change

Research News