National Science Foundation

This week with NSF Director Panchanathan This week, NSF Director Panchanathan had the honor of hosting First Lady Dr. Jill...

NSF launches new $30 million program to assess outcomes of R&D spending The U.S. National Science Foundation today launched Assessing...

Breakthrough in computer chip energy efficiency could cut data center electricity use Researchers at Oregon State University and Baylor University...

NSF announces guidelines for agency research security analytics practice The U.S. National Science Foundation recently released guidelines for research security...

Copper artifacts unearth new cultural connections in southern Africa Chemical and isotopic analyses of copper artifacts from southern Africa reveal...

Australian bushfires likely contributed to multiyear La Niña The catastrophic Australian bushfires in 2019 to 2020 contributed to ocean cooling...

NSF, AACC announce 2023 Community College Innovation Challenge winners Today, the U.S. National Science Foundation, in partnership with the American...

Study presents new clues about the rise of Earth's continents Continents are part of what makes Earth uniquely habitable for...

Study forecasts future nitrogen loads under various drainage and crop rotation scenarios Midwestern agriculture causes an oxygen-starved hypoxic zone, and...

NSF selects 34 semifinalists for the inaugural NSF Regional Innovation Engines competition The U.S. National Science Foundation announced 34 semifinalists...

Indo-Pacific corals more resilient to climate change than Atlantic corals In the face of global warming and other environmental changes,...

Highly dexterous robot hand can operate in the dark — just like humans Think about what you do with your...

Hidden ice melt in Himalayan glaciers A new study reveals that the mass loss of lake-terminating glaciers in the Great...

A healthy but depleted herd: Predators decrease prey disease levels and population size Nature documentaries will tell you that lions,...

Elephant seals drift off to sleep while diving far below the ocean surface For the first time, scientists have recorded...

Genomes from 240 mammalian species reveal what makes the human genome unique Over the past 100 million years, mammals have...

This week with NSF Director Panchanathan This week, NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan traveled to The Hague to join international partners...

NSF Director Panchanathan joins heads of funding agencies from around the world at The Hague for the Global Research Council's...