National Science Foundation - Where Discoveries Begin

Neutron star smash-up: Jet hits a roadblock

Highly conductive and elastic conductors using silver nanowires

Coral reefs' decline pre-date climate change decline from climate change

Smart materials get SMARTer (Image 1)

Smart materials get SMARTer (Image 2)

"Biomineral Single Crystals"

Hadrosaur (Ugrunaaluk kuukpikensis) (Image 5)

Solar telescope reaches 120,000 feet on jumbo-jet-sized balloon

Asymmetry in plants

Newly discovered two-planet system of Kepler-36

Science teams get time on Blue Waters

Simulation shows how to detect rapidly spinning stellar core

Pesticide turns honeybees into picky eaters

Building molecular 'cages' to fight disease

Dissappearance of planet-forming disk (Image 2)

2010 spike in Greenland ice loss lifted bedrock

Tabletop laser-like device can create multicolor beams (Image 1)

Tabletop laser-like device can create multicolor beams (Image 2)

Tabletop laser-like device can create multicolor beams (Image 3)

Tabletop laser-like device can create multicolor beams (Image 4)

Tabletop laser-like device can create multicolor beams (Image 5)

Neuron-reading nanowires (Image 2)

Sound of the red rock arches (Image 1)

Project allows users to explore 3-D vertebrate specimens from inside out (Image 1)

Project allows users to explore 3-D vertebrate specimens from inside out (Image 2)

Project allows users to explore 3-D vertebrate specimens from inside out (Image 3)

Project allows users to explore 3-D vertebrate specimens from inside out (Image 4)

Project allows users to explore 3-D vertebrate specimens from inside out (Image 5)

Project allows users to explore 3-D vertebrate specimens from inside out (Image 8)

Project allows users to explore 3-D vertebrate specimens from inside out (Image 9)