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Beth Linker Is Turning Good Posture on Its Head

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An Uncontrolled Chinese Rocket Body Is Returning From Space. Where Will It Land?

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Parechovirus Sickened 23 Infants in Nashville, C.D.C. Says

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Watch the Southern Delta Aquariid Meteor Shower Peak in Night Skies

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New NSF awards will advance theoretical foundations of data science research through interdisciplinary collaborations

New NSF awards will advance theoretical foundations of data science research through interdisciplinary collaborations Data science is an expanding field that requires the expertise of computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and statisticians to handle the complex analysis of ever-larger data sets. Data affect how industry, academia and government operate… Read more at nsf.gov

To Stop or Not to Stop the Fight

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There Are Holes on the Ocean Floor. Scientists Don’t Know Why.

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Statement by Director Sethuraman Panchanathan on the passage of the 'CHIPS and Science Act'

Statement by Director Sethuraman Panchanathan on the passage of the 'CHIPS and Science Act' Our nation’s economic and national security depends on our ability not only to harness the technologies of today, but to lay the foundation for the industries of the future. We also need to inspire and train the next generation STEM workforce and… Read more at nsf.gov

Like Bees of the Seas, These Crustaceans Pollinate Seaweed

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A.I. Predicts the Shape of Nearly Every Protein Known to Science

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Scientists identify mechanism responsible for fruit and seed development in flowering plants

Scientists identify mechanism responsible for fruit and seed development in flowering plants With rising global temperatures and dwindling pollinator populations, food production has become increasingly difficult for the world's growers. A new study by researchers at the University of Maryland addresses this issue, providing insight into… Read more at nsf.gov

Risk of death surges when extreme heat and air pollution coincide

Risk of death surges when extreme heat and air pollution coincide Heat waves and air pollution are harmful, even deadly, and both are predicted to increase in frequency due to climate change. A team of researchers at the University of Southern California is helping shed light on those health risks by assessing six… Read more at nsf.gov

NASA Will Send More Helicopters to Mars

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The World’s Largest Hornet Is Getting a New Name

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Early Europeans Could Not Tolerate Milk but Drank It Anyway, Study Finds

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Materials researchers build longest highly conductive molecular nanowire

Materials researchers build longest highly conductive molecular nanowire Researchers at Columbia University, supported by a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation, engineered a nanowire 2.6 nanometers long with quasi-metallic properties and conductance that increases with the wire's length. The breakthrough could… Read more at nsf.gov

Buzz Aldrin’s Space Memorabilia Sells for More Than $8 Million

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Engineers use electrolyte to create high-capacity batteries that operate in extreme temperatures

Engineers use electrolyte to create high-capacity batteries that operate in extreme temperatures Engineers at the University of California San Diego supported by a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation have developed a reliable lithium-ion battery that functions in extreme cold and heat. The team created an electrolyte that allows… Read more at nsf.gov

Citizen astronomer helps identify more than 30 ultracool dwarf binary systems

Citizen astronomer helps identify more than 30 ultracool dwarf binary systems A citizen astronomer participating in the U.S. National Science Foundation-supported Backyard Worlds program examined archival data provided by the Community Science & Data Center and found 34 new ultracool dwarf binary systems, nearly twice the… Read more at nsf.gov

Russia Says It Will Quit the International Space Station After 2024

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Splitting T. Rex Into 3 Species Becomes a Dinosaur Royal Rumble

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Destruction and recovery of kelp forests driven by changes in sea urchin behavior

Destruction and recovery of kelp forests driven by changes in sea urchin behavior A dramatic outbreak of kelp-eating purple sea urchins along the Central Coast of California in 2014, leading to a significant reduction in the region's kelp forests, was driven primarily by the emergence of sea urchins from their hiding places rather… Read more at nsf.gov

Ancient southwestern desert people ate more, larger, fish than previously thought

Ancient southwestern desert people ate more, larger, fish than previously thought There is a common misconception that Ancestral Pueblo people rarely ate fish. The remains of fish that were eaten by these people are indeed rare at early archaeological sites in the Middle Rio Grande basin of central New Mexico. Now, however… Read more at nsf.gov

‘Parentese’ is Truly a Lingua Franca, Global Study Finds

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Heads Up, Again: China Set to Launch Space Station Module With Giant Rocket

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Combined nasal and throat testing swabs would detect more Omicron infections, two papers suggest.

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Reaching Closer to Earth’s Core, One Lava Scoop at a Time

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The Most Fascinating Birds Will Be the First to Go Extinct

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Awash in potential: Wastewater provides early detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus

Awash in potential: Wastewater provides early detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus Writing in the journal Nature, scientists at the University of California San Diego and Scripps Research, along with local and federal public health officials, describe how wastewater sequencing provided dramatic new insights into levels and variants… Read more at nsf.gov

U.S. and U.K. Launch Innovation Prize Challenges in Privacy-Enhancing Technologies to Tackle Financial Crime and Public Health Emergencies

U.S. and U.K. Launch Innovation Prize Challenges in Privacy-Enhancing Technologies to Tackle Financial Crime and Public Health Emergencies Today, the U.S. and U.K. governments launched a set of prize challenges to unleash the potential of privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) to combat global societal challenges. Announced at the Summit for Democracy last year, innovators from academia… Read more at nsf.gov

Hidden in caves: Mineral overgrowths reveal unprecedented modern sea level rise

Hidden in caves: Mineral overgrowths reveal unprecedented modern sea level rise The early 1900s saw rapid advances in the steel, electric and automobile industries. Those industrial changes also mark an inflection point in the planet’s climate. According to an international team of researchers led by University of South Florida… Read more at nsf.gov

These Fins Were Made for Walking … and Then Swimming

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Robert F. Curl Jr., Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Dies at 88

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Which of the following can the new James Webb Space Telescope not observe?

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Borrowed gene helps maize adapt to high elevations, cold temperatures

Borrowed gene helps maize adapt to high elevations, cold temperatures Researchers at North Carolina State University have shown that an important gene in maize called HPC1 modulates chemical processes that contribute to flowering time, and has its origins in "teosinte mexicana," a precursor to modern-day corn that… Read more at nsf.gov

Researchers uncover life's power generators in Earth's oldest groundwater

Researchers uncover life's power generators in Earth's oldest groundwater An international team of researchers has discovered 1.2 billion-year-old groundwater deep in a gold and uranium mine in South Africa, shedding more light on how life is sustained below the Earth's surface and how it may thrive on other planets. The… Read more at nsf.gov

Two Companies Aim to Beat SpaceX to Mars With ‘Audacious’ Landing

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It Looks Awkward, but This Fish Has a Secret Glow

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Climate change may be culprit in Antarctic fish disease outbreak

Climate change may be culprit in Antarctic fish disease outbreak Climate change might be behind an unusual disease outbreak among Antarctic fish, researchers are finding. For a decade, University of Oregon biologists John Postlethwait and Thomas Desvignes have been visiting the West Antarctic Peninsula. They study… Read more at nsf.gov

Evidence that buckyballs and carbon nanotubes form from the dust and gas of dying stars

Evidence that buckyballs and carbon nanotubes form from the dust and gas of dying stars Astronomers at the University of Arizona, funded by two grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation, have developed a theory to explain the presence of the largest molecules known to exist in interstellar gas. The team simulated the environment… Read more at nsf.gov

The Secret to an Elephant’s Trunk Is Skin Deep

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Did Nature Heal During the Pandemic ‘Anthropause’?

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They Couldn’t Believe Their Eyes: The Ocean Was Glowing.

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In Space, U.S.-Russian Cooperation Finds a Way Forward

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NASA Shows Webb’s View of Something Closer to Home: Jupiter

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Bat Virus Studies Raise Questions About Laboratory Tinkering

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Why Woodpeckers Don’t Mind Hitting Trees With Their Faces

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Researchers discover how tuberculosis bacteria mutate to form antibiotic-resistant films

Researchers discover how tuberculosis bacteria mutate to form antibiotic-resistant films Tuberculosis, the second leading cause of death globally, is a highly infectious, hard to treat and difficult to contain disease that causes preventable deaths daily. A team of researchers supported by a grant from the U.S. National Science… Read more at nsf.gov

Five Things Learned From the Webb Telescope’s First Images

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Researchers study early stages of infant word learning

Researchers study early stages of infant word learning Researchers at Indiana University, supported by a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation, have published the results of their research on how infants put names to objects, a key step in language development. Past research has usually focused… Read more at nsf.gov

Hummingbirds may struggle to avoid climate change

Hummingbirds may struggle to avoid climate change Climate change is making it more challenging for small animals like hummingbirds to reach heights that allow them to evade the impacts of a warming world. A team of researchers set out to study how Anna's hummingbirds (Calypte anna) would adjust to a… Read more at nsf.gov

Statement by Director Sethuraman Panchanathan on NSF ranking in Best Places to Work in the Federal Government

Statement by Director Sethuraman Panchanathan on NSF ranking in Best Places to Work in the Federal Government I am thrilled and proud that the U.S. National Science Foundation recently ranked No. 2 among mid-sized agencies in the 2021 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government®, up from No. 5 last year. At NSF, we value innovation, creativity… Read more at nsf.gov

The Lonely Work of Picking the Universe’s Best Astronomy Pictures

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James Webb Space Telescope Captures New Images of the Cosmos

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How the Webb telescope compares with the Hubble.

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Webb Telescope Reveals a New Vision of an Ancient Universe

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The Webb telescope’s mirrors have already taken some hits.

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Who was James Webb, anyway?

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What Webb has showed us so far.

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The Webb telescope has been busy since it launched last December.

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Webb’s first image: A cosmic fishing hole for old-timey galaxies.

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Biden Reveals First Image From James Webb Space Telescope

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New hybrid machine learning forecasts lake ecosystem responses to climate change

New hybrid machine learning forecasts lake ecosystem responses to climate change Through the middle of the 20th century, phosphorus inputs from detergents and fertilizers degraded the water quality of Switzerland's Lake Geneva, spurring officials to take action in the 1970s to remediate the pollution. "The obvious remedy was to… Read more at nsf.gov

Biden to Show James Webb Space Telescope’s First Image: How to Watch

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Discovery pushes back the earliest record of wildfire by 10 million years

Discovery pushes back the earliest record of wildfire by 10 million years While wildfires in recent years have raged across much of the Western United States and pose significant hazards to wildlife and human populations, fires have been a long-standing part of Earth's systems without the influence of humans for hundreds… Read more at nsf.gov

The pandemic kept many children less active around the world, researchers find.

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The Question You Didn’t Know Needed Answering: Are Gophers Farmers?

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The U.S. government will buy 3.2 million doses of Novavax’s Covid vaccine.

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The Explosive Ambitions of Kate the Chemist

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Goose Bumps Build for the Webb’s First Snapshots of the Universe

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It Hides Under the Soil With a Bottomless Appetite for Meat

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The Robot Guerrilla Campaign to Recreate the Elgin Marbles

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