National Science Foundation - Where Discoveries Begin

Sub-sea rift spills secrets to seismic probe (Image 2)

New NSF-Simons centers (Image 1)

New NSF-Simons centers (Image 2)

Virus can adapt via newly discovered path of evolution (Image 1)

Virus can adapt via newly discovered path of evolution (Image 2)

Control strategy reaps maximum power from wind farms

Strain improves semiconductor material performance (Image 1)

Using pressure to control graphene transistors

STEM education at UT Austin

3D model of filaments during contraction of muscle

Scientists to build avian tree of life (Image 1)

Scientists to build avian tree of life (Image 2)

Scientists to build avian tree of life (Image 3)

Researchers grow carbon nanofibers using ambient air

Impact/movement of mechanically placed sand on beaches

Expanding ring-shaped cloud of atoms

Magnetoactive acoustic metamaterial (Image 2)

Optical device could detect drugs, bomb-making chemicals

Why poison frogs don’t poison themselves

Faceting ionic shells into icosahedra via electrostatic (Image 1)

Brain activity buffers agains worsening anxiety

Approximately 20 observatories followed up on IceCube's Sept. 22, 2017, detection

A trace of blue light results from the interaction of a neutrino and an ice molecule

A neutrino interacting with the clear Antarctic ice produces secondary particles

The data revealing the Sept. 22, 2017, neutrino detection

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at NSF's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station

Glucose molecules 'dancing' on sensor surface illuminated by light

New, tiny, bird-like dinosaur found (Image 3)

Vultures reveal old world flyways (Image 1)

Vultures reveal old world flyways (Image 2)