National Science Foundation - Where Discoveries Begin

Research shows a technique to offset the worry of waiting

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Chimp females who leave home postpone parenthood

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Researchers chart rising inequality across millennia

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NSF makes new awards to advance Science of Learning

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Veterans helping veterans through research

Discovery

A giant, prehistoric otter's surprisingly powerful bite

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A neighborhood's quality influences children's behaviors through teens, study suggests

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Visual intelligence is not the same as IQ

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Bonobos help strangers without being asked

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Designing better warning systems for better disaster response

Impact

Eyewitness testimony that is reliable

Impact

Finger and toe fossils belonged to tiny primates 45 million years ago

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NSF, NIH and USDA make new awards to combat infectious diseases

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NSF investments aim to address growing cybersecurity challenge

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Humans don't use as much brainpower as we like to think

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Study: Junk food almost twice as distracting as healthy food

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Older Neandertal survived with a little help from his friends

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Paleogenomic analysis sheds light on Easter Island mysteries

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Penn-led study identifies genes responsible for diversity of human skin colors

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NSF awards $5.3 million in 59 grants to study effects of recent hurricanes

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Statement on the Nobel Prize for Economics 2017

Press Statement

Household tasks still not shared equally between genders

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If your child is bilingual, learning additional languages later might be easier

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New tool detects reading problems early, allows for early intervention

Impact

Visual attention drawn to meaning, not what stands out

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Ancient human DNA in sub-Saharan Africa lifts veil on prehistory

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NSF awards $36.6 million in new food-energy-water system grants

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Business R&D performed in US reached $356 billion in 2015

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NSF awards $13 million for research on how humans, environment interact

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