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For 75 years, the U.S. National Science Foundation has helped secure the nation's leadership in science and engineering — and the prosperity, national security and economic competitiveness...
Recent rapid advancements in artificial intelligence have led to the emergence of innovative interdisciplinary fields such as computational medicine — a domain that leverages AI's strength to identify…
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Artificial intelligence, machine learning and advanced robotics are dramatically transforming society, and health care is one of the areas where these technologies could solve many of the issues…
Researchers, with support from the U.S. National Science Foundation, discovered the "nitroplast," the first known nitrogen-fixing organelle, or part of a cell, in a multicellular organism.