National Science Foundation - Where Discoveries Begin

Biomaterials with 'Frankenstein proteins' help heal tissue

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Clemson University breakthrough in self-healing materials detailed in journal Science

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2018-2019 NSF Distinguished Lectures in Mathematical and Physical Sciences

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Supercomputer predicts optical properties of complex hybrid materials

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Statement on the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018

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Polymer coating cools down buildings

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NSF announces new awards for quantum research, technologies

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Small modulator for big data

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Illinois team finds Wigner crystal -- not Mott insulator -- in 'magic-angle' graphene

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NSF announces new measures to protect research community from harassment

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NSF: Next steps against harassment

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New nanoparticle superstructures made from pyramid-shaped building blocks

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3D electron microscopy uncovers the complex guts of desalination membranes

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Engineering biology through DNA’s environment

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Media call: NSF harassment policy next steps

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Nano-sandwiching improves heat transfer, prevents overheating in nanoelectronics

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New TRIPODS+X awards target Big Data solutions for broad range of research challenges

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NSF INCLUDES takes major step forward with new awards

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Neutrophil nanosponges soak up proteins that promote rheumatoid arthritis

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Printing with sound

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Got an idea for science and engineering research? Send it to the NSF 2026 Idea Machine

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Shape-shifting material can morph, reverse itself using heat, light

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Rice U. lab finds evidence of matter-matter coupling

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Texas A&M team's pic of crack in the act could prevent engineering failures

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Researchers identify structural changes that occur in enveloped viruses before invading host

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Once a performance barrier, this material quirk could strengthen our telecommunication connections

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A valley so low: Electrons congregate in ways that could be useful to 'valleytronics'

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Quantum material is promising 'ion conductor' for research, new technologies

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More workers working might not get more work done, ants (and robots) show

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