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Beth Linker Is Turning Good Posture on Its Head

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April 3: NASA will announce the astronauts flying on Artemis II.

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A Big Rover Aims to Be Like ‘U.P.S. for the Moon’

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At Summit for Democracy, the United States and the United Kingdom Announce Winners of Challenge to Drive Innovation in Privacy-enhancing Technologies That Reinforce Democratic Values

At Summit for Democracy, the United States and the United Kingdom Announce Winners of Challenge to Drive Innovation in Privacy-enhancing Technologies That Reinforce Democratic Values Yesterday, at the second Summit for Democracy, the United States and the United Kingdom announced the winners of prize challenges to drive innovation in privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) that reinforce democratic values. Announced at the… Read more at nsf.gov

Imagine T. Rex. Now Imagine It With Lips.

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This Is What It Sounds Like When Plants Cry

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DNA Confirms Oral History of Swahili People

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Genomic study reveals signs of tuberculosis adaptation in ancient Andeans

Genomic study reveals signs of tuberculosis adaptation in ancient Andeans People have inhabited the Andes mountains of South America for more than 9,000 years, adapting to the scarce oxygen available at high altitudes, along with cold temperatures and intense ultraviolet radiation. A new genomic study published in the… 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 proud that the U.S. National Science Foundation again earned a top spot among the 2022 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government®. For the second year in a row, NSF ranked No. 2 among mid-sized agencies as featured in a special edition… Read more at nsf.gov

Cockroach Sex Took a Strange Turn. Now More Mutations Have Emerged.

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Dinosaur body size evolved through different developmental mechanisms

Dinosaur body size evolved through different developmental mechanisms The meat-eating dinosaurs known as theropods that roamed the ancient Earth ranged in size from the bus-sized Tyrannosaurus rex to the smaller, dog-sized Velociraptor. Scientists puzzling over how such wildly different dinosaur sizes evolved recently… Read more at nsf.gov

One is bad enough: Climate change raises the threat of back-to-back hurricanes

One is bad enough: Climate change raises the threat of back-to-back hurricanes Getting hit with one hurricane is bad enough, but a U.S. National Science Foundation-supported study by Princeton University researchers shows that back-to-back versions may become common for many areas in coming decades. Driven by a combination of… Read more at nsf.gov

One of the Luckiest Lightning Strikes Ever Recorded

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Elusive ‘Einstein’ Solves a Longstanding Math Problem

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Can a Machine Know That We Know What It Knows?

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A Sting Operation to Save Elephants, With No Stings

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Superhydrophobic biosensor could measure sweat vapors on the body

Superhydrophobic biosensor could measure sweat vapors on the body Sweat contains biomarkers that help doctors make health diagnoses. Wearable sensors can be used to monitor a person's perspiration rate and provide information about the skin, nervous system activity and underlying health conditions. But not all… Read more at nsf.gov

In a Roman Tomb, ‘Dead Nails’ Reveal an Occult Practice

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NSF and 5 other U.S. agencies launch program to build an integrated data and knowledge infrastructure

NSF and 5 other U.S. agencies launch program to build an integrated data and knowledge infrastructure In collaboration with five other U.S. government agencies, the U.S. National Science Foundation today launched the Building the Prototype Open Knowledge Network, or Proto-OKN, funding opportunity, a $20 million initiative that will build a prototype… Read more at nsf.gov

A Shark Discovery ‘Didn’t Look Right.’ It Might Have Been a Plastic Toy.

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A Paler Uranus Emerges in the Latest Hubble Telescope Image

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Science Museums Take Stock of 1.1 Billion Objects From Around the World

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The First 3-D Printed Rocket Fails Shortly After Launch

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New reports outline bold goals for U.S. bioeconomy

New reports outline bold goals for U.S. bioeconomy Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a series of five reports authored by federal agencies, including the U.S. National Science Foundation, outlining bold research and development goals for the U.S. bioeconomy. The… Read more at nsf.gov

Oumuamua Was a Comet After All, a Study Suggests

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Microbes play a key role in unleashing 'forever chemicals' from recycled-waste fertilizer

Microbes play a key role in unleashing 'forever chemicals' from recycled-waste fertilizer "Forever chemicals" are everywhere — water, soil, crops, animals, the blood of 97% of Americans — and researchers at Drexel University are trying to figure out how they got there. Their U.S. National Science Foundation-supported findings suggest that… Read more at nsf.gov

Sea stars able to consume kelp-eating urchins fast enough to protect kelp forests, research shows

Sea stars able to consume kelp-eating urchins fast enough to protect kelp forests, research shows A research team including U.S. National Science Foundation-supported scientists at Oregon State University has provided the first evidence that a species of endangered sea star protects kelp forests along North America's Pacific coast by preying on… Read more at nsf.gov

Abel Prize Goes to Mathematician Who Studied Equations That Describe Nature

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Report of Wuhan Market Samples Found Covid and Animal Mixtures

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The Clues Floating in a Volcano’s Smoke Rings

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Urban gardens are good for ecosystems and humans

Urban gardens are good for ecosystems and humans Traditionally, it has been assumed that cultivating food leads to a loss of biodiversity and negative impacts on an ecosystem. A new study from researchers at multiple universities, including The University of Texas at Austin, defies this assumption… Read more at nsf.gov

Tracking the Chinese Balloon From Space

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Obsidian Cliff: Humanity’s Tool Shed for the Last 11,500 Years

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Space Debris Spotted Over Northern California

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This week with NSF Director Panchanathan

This week with NSF Director Panchanathan How the investments of yesterday and the actions taken today will continue to shape the future was at the forefront of NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan's mind this week. On March 13, Director Panchanathan participated in the White House Office of… Read more at nsf.gov

How Do So Many Endangered Creatures End Up in Japan’s Animal Cafes?

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Scientists Breed Sea Dragons, but Not by the Seashore

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US-Ireland research program celebrates 17 years with landmark $21 million investment

US-Ireland research program celebrates 17 years with landmark $21 million investment Alexandria, VA: The U.S. National Science Foundation announced a joint overall investment of approximately $21 million through a tripartite research and development partnership between the U.S., the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, marking… Read more at nsf.gov

New Data Links Pandemic’s Origins to Raccoon Dogs at Wuhan Market

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Celebrating one year of TIP

Celebrating one year of TIP One year ago, under the leadership of Director Sethuraman Panchanathan, the U.S. National Science Foundation announced the establishment of the Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, or TIP, the agency's first new directorate in… Read more at nsf.gov

Audubon Society Keeps Name Despite Slavery Ties, Dividing Birders

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NASA Unveils a New Moon Suit for Artemis Astronauts

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National Audubon Society Will Keep Its Name Despite Ties to Slavery

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It’s Not a Stretch: This Dinosaur Had a 50-Foot Neck

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Researchers work to reduce precious metals in catalytic converters

Researchers work to reduce precious metals in catalytic converters Precious metals in catalytic converters such as platinum, palladium and rhodium attract thieves, but University of Central Florida researchers are working to reduce the amount of precious metals the converters need — down to single atoms — while… Read more at nsf.gov

Chemists discover new form of carbon, graphullerene, graphene's 'superatomic' cousin

Chemists discover new form of carbon, graphullerene, graphene's 'superatomic' cousin Carbon in its myriad forms has long captivated the scientific community. In addition to being the primary component of all organic life on Earth, material forms of carbon have earned their fair share of breakthroughs. In 1996, the Nobel Prize in… Read more at nsf.gov

Coral reefs in the tropical Pacific could survive into the 2060s, study finds

Coral reefs in the tropical Pacific could survive into the 2060s, study finds Scientists at the University of Miami have found that some reefs in the tropical Pacific Ocean could maintain coral cover into the second half of this century by shuffling the symbiotic algae they host. The findings offer a ray of hope in an often… Read more at nsf.gov

Guidelines Warn Against Racial Categories in Genetic Research

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NSF Director participates in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy event on President’s Budget request for FY24

NSF Director participates in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy event on President’s Budget request for FY24 On March 13, U.S. National Science Foundation Director Sethuraman Panchanathan participated in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) event on President Biden’s FY24 Budget request which includes $210 billion for federal… Read more at nsf.gov

At Long Last, a Donkey Family Tree

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A decade of unveiling the hidden universe: ALMA at 10

A decade of unveiling the hidden universe: ALMA at 10 On March 13, 2023, astronomers around the world mark the 10th anniversary of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ALMA, the world's largest radio telescope. Over the past decade, the international ALMA collaboration — led by the U.S… Read more at nsf.gov

Brown Widows Are Winning the Fight for Your Attic and Garage

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Research shows why cancer stops responding to kinase-blocking drugs and comes back stronger

Research shows why cancer stops responding to kinase-blocking drugs and comes back stronger More than 70 FDA-approved cancer drugs are kinase inhibitors, which work by blocking kinases — enzymes that add phosphate groups to molecules in the cell — and preventing the chemical activity necessary for signaling and growth in cancer cells… Read more at nsf.gov

Eight-Legged Candy-Striper Killers Prowl Before the Sun Rises

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This week with NSF Director Panchanathan

This week with NSF Director Panchanathan For over seven decades, NSF has made investments in researchers, infrastructure and programs that have expanded the frontiers of knowledge and technology, accelerating discoveries and innovations powered by curiosity-driven research and use-inspired… Read more at nsf.gov

O Canada, Where Are All Your Tornadoes?

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First-ever layered lake sediment sample extracted from subglacial Antarctica

First-ever layered lake sediment sample extracted from subglacial Antarctica Since the discovery 50 years ago of subglacial lakes in Antarctica — some of the least accessible geological features on Earth — scientists have attempted to extract lake bed sediment to learn about the formation, movement and past conditions of the… Read more at nsf.gov

Statement by the NSF Director on the President’s Fiscal Year 2024 Budget

Statement by the NSF Director on the President’s Fiscal Year 2024 Budget The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2024 budget request of $11.314 billion will fund research and education across all fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. This funding will allow NSF to continue implementing the… Read more at nsf.gov

NSF announces infrastructure investment to enable understanding of material structure at scales from macroscopic to atomic

NSF announces infrastructure investment to enable understanding of material structure at scales from macroscopic to atomic Alexandria, Virginia: The U.S. National Science Foundation announced $90.8 million in funding for a Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-2 award to Arizona State University to create a Compact X-ray Free-Electron Laser, or CXFEL, facility. This… Read more at nsf.gov

New Room-Temperature Superconductor Offers Tantalizing Possibilities

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Aquatic organisms respond to flooding and drought in different ways

Aquatic organisms respond to flooding and drought in different ways Populations of various species of aquatic insects and other invertebrates respond to flooding and waterway drying in different ways that can be anticipated, according to a new Penn State-led study that employed a novel method to assess the stability… Read more at nsf.gov

Keanu Reeves’s Latest Role? Fungus-Killing Bacterial Compound.

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No, Female Mice Are Not More Erratic

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Researchers uncover secrets of how Alaska's Denali Fault formed

Researchers uncover secrets of how Alaska's Denali Fault formed When the rigid plates that make up the Earth's lithosphere brush against one another, they often form boundaries, known as faults, on the planet's surface. Strike-slip faults, such as the San Andreas Fault in California and the Denali Fault in Alaska… Read more at nsf.gov

The Moon May Get Its Own Time Zone

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New Japanese Rocket Is Destroyed During First Test Flight to Space

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Plants seek climate refuge across our changing planet

Plants seek climate refuge across our changing planet Plants, like animals and people, seek refuge from climate change. And when they move, they take ecosystems with them. To understand why and how plants have trekked across landscapes throughout time, researchers are calling for a new framework. The… Read more at nsf.gov

The Missing 24-Limbed Animals That Could Help Rescue the Ocean’s Forest

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Dunk Was Chunky, but Still Deadly

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Justin O. Schmidt, Entomologist Known as ‘King of Sting,’ Dies at 75

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This week with NSF Director Panchanathan

This week with NSF Director Panchanathan The three I’s to impactful change, according to NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan, are innovation, inclusion and international collaboration — and finding opportunities to advance impactful change continued to be the focus this week for the… Read more at nsf.gov

In Chernobyl’s Stray Dogs, Geneticists Find Nuclear Families

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Mutant, Parasitic Impostor Queens Lurk in Ant Colonies

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‘What Is This Thing?’: How a Jurassic-Era Insect Was Rediscovered

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Who’s Using Vocal Fry in the Ocean? Dolphins and Whaaaaales.

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Hubble Telescope Faces Threat From SpaceX and Other Companies’ Satellites

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Ancient DNA Reveals History of Hunter-Gatherers in Europe

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