National Science Foundation - Where Discoveries Begin

Businesses spent a total of $375 billion on research and development performance in the US in 2016.

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Man makes history at the bottom of the world!

Artist's representation of an electron traveling between two lasers in an experiment.

Artist's representation of an electron orbiting an atom's nucleus.

William Nordhaus and Paul Romer, winners of the 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences

Robert Schwarz gives a thumbs-up at the South Pole under the Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights.

Schwarz is an astrophysicist at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

NSF continues to fuel revolutions in manufacturing innovation.

Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith and Gregory P. Winter, the 2018 Nobel laureates in chemistry.

Pupa Gilbert developed a method for mapping crystal structures, seen in this image of coral.

Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland, the 2018 Nobel Laureates in Physics.

University of Minnesota autonomous shuttle bus pilot project.

STEMports participants collect media items to build AR storylines to educate players about STEM.

Southern Connected Communities Network uses tower to distribute broadband to rural communities.

Awards to help protect America's economic prosperity and security through cybersecurity education.

A standardized high school engineering course will help increase access to engineering careers.

Rice farmers and others in Sri Lanka are contracting a kidney disease known as CKDu.

Sri Lanka's North Central Province, as well as its Uva and other provinces, report CKDu cases.

The CKDu workshop team checks out water used for drinking in Sri Lanka's North Central Province.