Science Matters

In 2018, accountant and astronomy buff Jorg Schumann was sifting through publicly available astral images of the cosmos and noticed an unusual pair of fast-moving objects.

Some of our team members took the opportunity to have a little fun with some of the animals that are the focus of NSF-supported research.

The phrase "data-driven" is a modern cliché. It's generally used to characterize decisions or strategies as being based on some sort of objective data.

U.S. National Science Foundation pioneer Cora Marrett answers every new opportunity, no matter how groundbreaking, with a simple question: Why not?…

Perhaps you are disturbed by news of an invasive, palm-sized spider that will soon spread up and down the East Coast by using its web like a parachute.

"There's something happening in America," President Biden said in his 2022 State of the Union address.

Scientists and educators at minority-serving institutions, or MSIs, are crucial to advancing the frontiers of knowledge in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics enterprise.

A U.S. National Science Foundation ocean research vessel under construction will be named R/V Gilbert R.

Kakani Katija grew up wanting to be an explorer and dreamed of becoming an astronaut.

In 1980, the U.S. National Science Foundation established the initial Long-Term Ecological Research sites to initiate continuing, and large-scale, ecological research across the globe.