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How to Watch the Leonids Meteor Shower Peak This Weekend

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 NSF Arecibo C3 opening moved to 2025, aligning with NSF's 75th anniversary commemorations

 NSF Arecibo C3 opening moved to 2025, aligning with NSF's 75th anniversary commemorations The U.S. National Science Foundation has announced that the official opening of the NSF Arecibo Center for Culturally Relevant and Inclusive Science Education, Computational Skills, and Community Engagement (NSF Arecibo C3) will be moved to 2025. The… Read more at nsf.gov

Instead of Going Boldly on Space, Harris Has Taken a Steady Approach

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Was Stone Age Scandinavia Struck by Plague?

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Can John Green Make You Care About Tuberculosis?

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This week with NSF Director Panchanathan

This week with NSF Director Panchanathan Last week, Director Sethuraman Panchanathan engaged in meetings that deepened U.S. National Science Foundation's relationships with current international partners and expanded NSF's global network. On Monday, Oct. 21, Panchanathan and NSF… Read more at nsf.gov

This Toad Is So Tiny That They Call It a Flea

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What Ants and Orcas Can Teach Us About Death

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The Rebellious Scientist Who Made Kamala Harris

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If You Think You Can Hold a Grudge, Consider the Crow

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If You Think You Can Hold a Grudge, Consider the Crow

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First Images of the Sun’s Flares Released From a New Space Telescope

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A Skeleton Bank of Understudied Species

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NASA Astronaut Has ‘Medical Issue’ After SpaceX Splashdown

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The Early Bird Got the Cicada, Then an Evolutionary Air War Started

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That 800-Year-Old Corpse in the Well? Early Biological Warfare.

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Philip Zimbardo, 91, Whose Stanford Prison Experiment Studied Evil, Dies

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Supporting women in ocean sciences

Supporting women in ocean sciences The U.S. National Science Foundation, in collaboration with Every Page Foundation (EPF), is excited to announce 22 women science leaders as the 2024 NSF-EPF Ocean Decade Champions. Each champion is associated with a project funded by the NSF… Read more at nsf.gov

82 American Nobel Prize Winners Endorse Kamala Harris

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A Feathered Murder Mystery at 10,000 Feet

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U.S. Study on Puberty Blockers Goes Unpublished Because of Politics, Doctor Says

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Bruce Ames, 95, Dies; Biochemist Discovered Test for Toxic Chemicals

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Brazilian Fossil Hints at Older Origin for All Dinosaurs

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This week with NSF Director Panchanathan

This week with NSF Director Panchanathan This week, Director Sethuraman Panchanathan underscored the progress and accomplishments that NSF investments are having on innovation and research. The director traveled to Omaha, Nebraska, to attend the 28th NSF Established Program to Stimulate… Read more at nsf.gov

Andrew V. Schally, 97, Dies; Scientist Shared Nobel Glory With Rival

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Reinventing Concrete, the Ancient Roman Way

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The Orionids Meteor Shower Is Peaking. Here’s How to Watch.

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These Tiny Worms Account for at Least 4 Nobel Prizes

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Sperm Can’t Unlock an Egg Without This Ancient Molecular Key

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Parachutes Made of Mucus Change How Some Scientists See the Ocean

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Columbia Cancer Surgeon Notches 5 More Retractions for Suspicious Data

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Bumblebee Queens Prefer to Live in a Toxic Home

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Fantastic fossils and where to find them

Fantastic fossils and where to find them U.S. National Science Foundation-funded researchers recently found a fossil that led to the discovery of a brand-new dinosaur species, Lokiceratops rangiformis . This horned dinosaur, an earlier relative of the triceratops, has asymmetric horns on… Read more at nsf.gov

NSF congratulates laureates of the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics

NSF congratulates laureates of the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics The U.S. National Science Foundation congratulates Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and James A. Robinson of the University of Chicago as the 2024 recipients of the Nobel Prize in economics — formally the… Read more at nsf.gov

A Distant Planet May Host a Moon That’s Spewing a Volcanic Cloud

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This week with NSF Director Panchanathan

This week with NSF Director Panchanathan This week, NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan led transformative discussions and visits, strengthening global partnerships and propelling innovation to new heights. On Tuesday, Panchanathan hosted the chairman of Singapore Economic Development… Read more at nsf.gov

NASA Launches Mission to Study Jupiter’s Moon

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Finding critical minerals from scoops of sand

Finding critical minerals from scoops of sand Smartphones, batteries and satellites all require critical minerals like cobalt, niobium and tin. As society increasingly relies on these minerals to create a more sustainable energy economy, demand may soon outpace available supply. To potentially… Read more at nsf.gov

NASA Prepares Europa Clipper Launch to Study an Ocean Moon’s Habitability

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NASA Prepares Europa Clipper Launch to Study an Ocean Moon’s Habitability

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For Sunday’s flight, SpaceX may try an audacious “chopsticks” landing.

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What Is SpaceX’s Starship? It’s really a Mars ship.

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NSF and Germany's Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation join forces to accelerate innovations

NSF and Germany's Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation join forces to accelerate innovations The transatlantic partnership aims to propel innovative technology translation, lay the foundation for new industries and positively impact people's lives in the U.S. and Europe The U.S. National Science Foundation, through its Directorate for… Read more at nsf.gov

Hairballs Shed Light on Man-Eating Lions’ Menu

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What Flying in a Wind Tunnel Reveals About Birds

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Moves Like the Solar System’s Biggest Kickball

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U.S. releases National Spectrum Research and Development Plan to guide spectrum innovation

U.S. releases National Spectrum Research and Development Plan to guide spectrum innovation The U.S. government has released the National Spectrum Research and Development Plan, a crucial step forward in maintaining America's global leadership in wireless spectrum innovation. The Wireless Spectrum Research and Development Interagency… Read more at nsf.gov

U.S. Issues Solar Storm Watch After Large Outburst From the Sun

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work With Proteins

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Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded to 2 Scientists for Work on Machine Learning

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How to See the ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Comet Flaring in Our Night Skies

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NSF congratulates laureates of the 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine 

NSF congratulates laureates of the 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine  The U.S. National Science Foundation congratulates Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Their breakthrough discovery of microRNAs, a fundamental component of how gene activity is regulated, transformed our… Read more at nsf.gov

This week with NSF Director Panchanathan

This week with NSF Director Panchanathan The U.S. National Science Foundation Director Sethuraman Panchanathan had a dynamic week as he met with domestic and international partners to emphasize NSF's commitment to unite global talent and unlock the potential of research and innovation. On… Read more at nsf.gov

When Two Sea Aliens Become One

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MRR: Taking a groundbreaking technology from basic research to commercialization

MRR: Taking a groundbreaking technology from basic research to commercialization The development of a cutting-edge technique to monitor and control chemical reactions in real time has the potential to transform pharmaceutical manufacturing and other industries. Molecular rotational resonance (MRR) spectroscopy provides high-speed… Read more at nsf.gov

How to Watch Europe Launch an Asteroid Chasing Mission

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Some Scientists May Never Win a Nobel, but They Still Deserve These Prizes

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Scientists Found a Surprising Way to Make Fungus Happy

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DNA Reveals the Origin Stories of America’s Captive Tigers

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Not just a bunch of hot air: Plant responses to higher temperatures change depending on how hot it gets

Not just a bunch of hot air: Plant responses to higher temperatures change depending on how hot it gets How plants balance carbon dioxide intake with water loss in the face of rising temperatures has implications for water use in agriculture and the resilience of critical crops to environmental change. U.S. National Science Foundation-supported… Read more at nsf.gov

The Food of Space Travel Could Be Based on Rocks

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To Build a Nuclear Bomb, Iran Would Need Much More Than Weeks

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After a Decade, Scientists Unveil Fly Brain in Stunning Detail

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