National Science Foundation - Where Discoveries Begin

What happens to your brain when your mind is at rest?

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Renowned scientist/conservationist Patricia Wright campaigns to save severely endangered lemurs

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Harvard University psychologists seek to unlock secrets of children's complex thinking

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Unlocking the secrets of children's complex thinking: The studies

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Complexity of eye-hand coordination

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Father's day special: And the best father in the animal kingdom is...

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Brain power: Bright ideas and smart tools for neuroengineering

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Mapping tool used by Census Bureau has roots in NSF-funded project

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Snakes Alive! NSF-funded researchers find oldest fossil evidence of modern African venomous snakes

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From dino brains to thought control--10 fascinating brain findings

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Hunting the spark of creativity

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Detecting social patterns from shifting dialects

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Summertime: Hot Time in the City

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Six-month-old Word Learners

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Older Is Better for Hunting Dogs

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Foiling the Plan of a Cyberbully

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Recognizing a Cyberbully

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Defining a Cyberbully

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Warfare Reveals Reasons People Cooperate

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Carnegie Mellon and Princeton Neuroscientists Uncover Neural Mechanisms of Object Recognition

News From the Field

Why Context Matters in the Long and Short of Words

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Journey to the Center of the Amazon

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Researchers Consider Ancestry of Recent Fossil Finds

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Orangutans in the Mist

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Stressed Out: Teens and Adults Respond Differently

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Humans Have a Lot to Learn From Bonobos, Scientists Say

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Finding the First Horse Whisperers

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The New Science of Learning

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Unlocking the Secrets and Powers of the Brain

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