Science Matters

That magnet on your refrigerator? Let's supersize it. Imagine it's 1 million times more powerful than Earth's magnetic field and as heavy as a small herd of elephants.

The quantum future is on our doorstep — and the U.S. National Science Foundation is helping to bring it home.

The U.S. National Science Foundation supports multiple programs for high school, undergraduate and post-baccalaureate students to help fund research opportunities.

Congress passed the bipartisan "CHIPS and Science Act," a watershed moment for U.S. innovation and industry. It unlocks investments in U.S.

In the U.S., more people are learning to read, write and speak in a new language using the app Duolingo.

Every picture tells a story. Each portrait in the gallery of directors at the U.S. National Science Foundation headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, is a chapter in the U.S.

Because breathing is generally involuntary, we sometimes forget how complicated it is.

The geographic South Pole sits more than 800 miles from the nearest coastline of Antarctica.

However you celebrate Thanksgiving we hope that your table includes our favorite topic of conversation, NSF science. Science is on our plates, at our tables, and all around us on holidays.

Post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, can develop after a person experiences a traumatic event, such as a death, a car accident or a sexual assault. According to the U.S.