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Beth Linker Is Turning Good Posture on Its Head

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‘Planet Killer’ Asteroid Spotted That Poses Distant Risk to Earth

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Gravitational forces deep in Earth impact landscape evolution

Gravitational forces deep in Earth impact landscape evolution Research led by Stony Brook University scientists focuses on the interplay among the evolution of the landscape, climate and fossil record of mammal evolution, and mammal diversification in the Western U.S. A little explored aspect of the research is… Read more at nsf.gov

King Tut Died Long Ago, but the Debate About His Tomb Rages On

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House-Hunting on Mars Has Already Started

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Requiem for a Telescope

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NSF announces $10 million partnership with Micron to support semiconductor design and manufacturing workforce development

NSF announces $10 million partnership with Micron to support semiconductor design and manufacturing workforce development The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced a cross-sector partnership with Micron Technology, Inc. to develop bold, potentially transformative solutions to address semiconductor manufacturing challenges and workforce shortages. NSF and… Read more at nsf.gov

How to Scan a Leopard Eel for Cancer

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G.O.P. Senator’s Report on Covid Origins Suggests Lab Leak, but Offers Little New Evidence

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When Meteors Shook Mars, NASA Was Listening and Watching

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What happens when one organism stabs another with its fangs, thorns, spines?

What happens when one organism stabs another with its fangs, thorns, spines? Researchers have created a model that can calculate the energetics involved when one organism stabs another with its fangs, thorns, spines or other puncturing parts. Because the model can be applied to a variety of organisms, it will help scientists… Read more at nsf.gov

It Takes a Lot of Elephant Brains to Solve This Mystery

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There’s Lightning Brewing in Every Swarm of Insects

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Deepest scientific ocean drilling sheds light on Japan's next great earthquake

Deepest scientific ocean drilling sheds light on Japan's next great earthquake Scientists who drilled deeper into an undersea earthquake fault than ever before have found that the tectonic stress in Japan's Nankai subduction zone is less than expected, according to researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the… Read more at nsf.gov

Emperor Penguins Are Protected Under the Endangered Species Act

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Plastics of the future will have many past lives, thanks to chemical recycling

Plastics of the future will have many past lives, thanks to chemical recycling One day in the not-too-distant future, the plastics in satellites, cars and electronics may all be living their second, 25th or 250th lives. New research from the University of Colorado Boulder, published in Nature Chemistry, details how a class of… Read more at nsf.gov

They May Have Love on Their Lizard Brains

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Air pollution can amplify effects of climate change, new study finds

Air pollution can amplify effects of climate change, new study finds The impacts of air pollution on human health, economies and agriculture differ drastically depending where on the planet the pollutants are emitted, according to a new study. Led by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and the University… Read more at nsf.gov

A Partial Solar Eclipse Will Put On a Show. Here’s How to Watch.

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Lab Manipulations of Covid Virus Fall Under Murky Government Rules

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This week with NSF Director Panchanathan

This week with NSF Director Panchanathan NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan fielded a packed schedule this week, from receiving a public service award to meeting with international colleagues to visiting Rice University in Houston, Texas. Panchanathan met with the Finance Minister of… Read more at nsf.gov

A New Procedure Could Expand Reproductive Choices for Transgender Women

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Orionid Meteor Shower: How and When to Watch It Peak in Night Skies

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Webb Telescope Captures New View of ‘Pillars of Creation’

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How the ‘Black Death’ Left Its Genetic Mark on Future Generations

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New NSF workforce development program opens new doors in emerging technology fields

New NSF workforce development program opens new doors in emerging technology fields The U.S. National Science Foundation today launches a new $30 million workforce development program, Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies, or ExLENT. The program will expand practical learning opportunities for individuals… Read more at nsf.gov

You See a Venomous Black Widow. These Lizards See a Snack.

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Not Just a Big Fish, but Perhaps the Biggest Bony Fish Ever

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Forests' carbon uptake will be compromised by climate change, leaf temperature study suggests

Forests' carbon uptake will be compromised by climate change, leaf temperature study suggests Leaves in forest canopies are not able to cool themselves below the surrounding air temperature, likely meaning that trees' ability to avoid damaging temperature increases, and to pull carbon from the atmosphere, will be compromised in a warmer… Read more at nsf.gov

James A. McDivitt, Commander in Early NASA Triumphs, Is Dead at 93

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The Search Is on for Mysterious Banana Ancestors

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NSF Director Panchanathan delivered remarks at the 2022 World Academic Summit in New York City

NSF Director Panchanathan delivered remarks at the 2022 World Academic Summit in New York City Policymakers, researchers, academics and industry leaders convened at the 2022 World Academic Summit earlier this month to discuss how higher education can adapt to meet rising expectations and their impact on institutions, students and academia. U.S… Read more at nsf.gov

Anti-insulin protein linked to longevity and reproduction in ants

Anti-insulin protein linked to longevity and reproduction in ants An insulin-suppressing protein may be the fountain of youth for ants and provide clues about aging in other species, according to a study led by New York University researchers. Published in Science and supported in part by the U.S. National Science… Read more at nsf.gov

This week with NSF Director Panchanathan

This week with NSF Director Panchanathan NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan focused on education this week, with a virtual appearance Tuesday at the Times Higher Education World Academic Summit 2022 and a trip to Dartmouth College in New Hampshire on Friday. The director delivered the… Read more at nsf.gov

When Sarcastic Fringeheads Open Their Mouths, Watch Out

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For These Isolated Penguins, Two Eggs Are Not Better Than One

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‘Dino Mummy’ Reveals There May Be More Skin in the Fossil Game

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Martian rock-metal composite shows potential of 3D printing on Mars

Martian rock-metal composite shows potential of 3D printing on Mars A little Martian dust appears to go a long way. A small amount of simulated crushed Martian rock mixed with a titanium alloy resulted in a strong high-performance material in a 3D-printing process that could one day be used on Mars to make tools or… Read more at nsf.gov

Malaria spike linked to amphibian die-off

Malaria spike linked to amphibian die-off Dozens of species of frogs, salamanders and other amphibians quietly disappeared from parts of Latin America in the 1980s and 2000s, with little notice from humans outside of a small group of ecologists. Yet the amphibian decline had direct health… Read more at nsf.gov

NASA Spacecraft Smashed Asteroid Into New Orbit in Planetary Defense Test

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NSF congratulates laureates of the 2022 Nobel Prize in economics

NSF congratulates laureates of the 2022 Nobel Prize in economics The U.S. National Science Foundation congratulates Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig for their 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Their combined discoveries revealed the critical role that banks play in modern… Read more at nsf.gov

Researchers go 'outside the box' to delineate major ocean currents

Researchers go 'outside the box' to delineate major ocean currents For the first time, University of Rochester researchers and collaborators have quantified the energy of ocean currents larger than 1,000 kilometers. In the process, they discovered that the most energetic is the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, some 9… Read more at nsf.gov

Antiferromagnetic hybrids achieve important functionality for spintronic applications

Antiferromagnetic hybrids achieve important functionality for spintronic applications Antiferromagnets have zero net magnetization and are insensitive to external magnetic field perturbations. These spintronic devices, as they are called, hold great promise for creating future ultra-fast and energy-efficient information storage… Read more at nsf.gov

Primate Pals: When Chimps and Gorillas Form Rainforest Friendships

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‘3,000 Years of History Are Literally Just Beneath Our Feet’

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Black Holes May Hide a Mind-Bending Secret About Our Universe

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Decades of Nuclear Reactor Strikes Predate Ukraine Power Plant Crisis

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Decades of Nuclear Reactor Strikes Predate Ukraine Power Plant Crisis

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Animal Rights Activists Await Verdict in Smithfield Piglet Case

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This week with NSF Director Panchanathan

This week with NSF Director Panchanathan NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan did some serious globetrotting this week, from a science and technology forum in Kyoto, Japan, to the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts. The director spent Sunday and Monday in Kyoto, where he delivered… Read more at nsf.gov

Corals pass mutations acquired during their lifetime to offspring

Corals pass mutations acquired during their lifetime to offspring In a discovery that challenges more than a century of evolutionary conventional wisdom, corals have been shown to pass somatic mutations — changes to the DNA sequence that occur in nonreproductive cells — to their offspring. A paper describing the U… Read more at nsf.gov

Weedy rice has become herbicide-resistant through rapid evolution

Weedy rice has become herbicide-resistant through rapid evolution In research published in the journal Communications Biology, U.S. National Science Foundation-supported scientists at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Arkansas report that a crop pest called weedy rice has become widely… Read more at nsf.gov

Where do high-energy particles that endanger satellites, astronauts and airplanes come from?

Where do high-energy particles that endanger satellites, astronauts and airplanes come from? For decades, scientists have been trying to solve a vexing problem about the weather in outer space. At unpredictable times, high-energy solar particles bombard Earth and objects outside Earth’s atmosphere with radiation that can endanger the lives… Read more at nsf.gov

NSF Invests to Improve Undergraduate STEM Education at Hispanic-Serving Institutions

NSF Invests to Improve Undergraduate STEM Education at Hispanic-Serving Institutions As the nation celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month, the U.S. National Science Foundation's Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program has awarded 48 grants to Hispanic-serving institutions in Fiscal Year 2022… Read more at nsf.gov

NSF congratulates laureates of the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry

NSF congratulates laureates of the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry The U.S. National Science Foundation congratulates Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless on their 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Their breakthrough discoveries transformed the field by enabling new ways to create complex molecules… Read more at nsf.gov

Fossils Reveal Pterosaur Relatives Before They Evolved Wings

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Older forests can buffer effects of climate change for some bird species

Older forests can buffer effects of climate change for some bird species Old-growth forests and managed forests with old-growth characteristics can provide relief from climate change for some bird species, research by Oregon State University scientists and colleagues suggest. The study builds on earlier research, which… Read more at nsf.gov

SpaceX Will Launch First Russian Astronaut: How to Watch

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work in Click Chemistry

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When You Step Inside This Lab, You Must Whip It

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Paid to Fight, Even in Ancient Greece

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Watch How Harpoon-Headed Mosquito Larvae Kill Their Prey

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Corals pass mutations acquired during their lifetime to offspring

Corals pass mutations acquired during their lifetime to offspring In a discovery that challenges more than a century of evolutionary conventional wisdom, corals have been shown to pass somatic mutations — changes to the DNA sequence that occur in nonreproductive cells — to their offspring. A paper describing the U… Read more at nsf.gov

Weedy rice has become herbicide-resistant through rapid evolution

Weedy rice has become herbicide-resistant through rapid evolution In research published in the journal Communications Biology, U.S. National Science Foundation-supported scientists at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Arkansas report that a crop pest called weedy rice has become widely… Read more at nsf.gov

Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work With Entangled Photons

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At Long Last, Can Malaria Be Eradicated?

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Coyotes Came to New York City, but Not For Our Pizza

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Where do high-energy particles that endanger satellites, astronauts and airplanes come from?

Where do high-energy particles that endanger satellites, astronauts and airplanes come from? For decades, scientists have been trying to solve a vexing problem about the weather in outer space. At unpredictable times, high-energy solar particles bombard Earth and objects outside Earth’s atmosphere with radiation that can endanger the lives… Read more at nsf.gov