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Researchers create nanoscale sensors to better see how high pressure affects materials

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Researchers make reconfigurable robots from self-folding kirigami metamaterials

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Bees' movements may lead to new swimming, flying robots

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NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps)

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Discovery may lead to osteoporosis treatment

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Using a smartphone to detect norovirus

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Bio-inspired nano-catalyst guides chiral reactions

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Predicting the impact of climate change on bridge safety

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Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications

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Paper trail leads to heart valve discoveries

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NSF's 10 Big Ideas

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Sea lions may inspire 'strokes' of genius

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Stretchable wireless sensor could monitor healing of cerebral aneurysms

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NSF awards $3.5 million to increase diversity in entrepreneurship

New sensors to monitor storm surge on bridges

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Blinking eye-on-a-chip used for disease modeling and drug testing

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Promising new solar-powered path to hydrogen fuel production

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Technique uses magnets, light to control and reconfigure soft robots

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New way for bridges to withstand earthquakes: support column design

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Researchers develop technology to harness energy from mixing of freshwater and seawater

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Engineering improvements to deep brain stimulation

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Device channels heat into light

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NSF issues first biennial report on I-Corps

Researchers wirelessly manipulate gene, step toward reprogramming the human genome

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Vitamin C is key to protection of new nanomaterial

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Robot arm 'tastes' with engineered bacteria

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Physics of laser frequency combs sheds light on nature’s problem-solving skills

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White House honors 80 NSF-supported early-career researchers

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Early-season hurricanes result in greater transmission of mosquito-borne infectious disease

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