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National Inventors Hall of Fame Honoree Donald Bitzer
Computer scientist Donald Bitzer discusses how NSF support of PLATO, the first computer system to offer students free, computer-assisted instruction, provided an incentive for continued development and use of plasma displays.
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King Crab Encroachment Could Threaten Antarctic Ecosystems
An NSF-funded research team lead by the Florida Institute of Technology or FIT, has documented for the first time, a population of King Crabs that has migrated to shallower, warming seas off the Antarctic Peninsula. The team believes...
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Unmanned Aircraft to Cooperate in Daring Hurricane Missions - Innovators
Getting unmanned aircraft to fly in coordination with one another, while in the throes of hurricane force winds, is no easy feat. It calls for a lot of mathematical formulas, tricky steering algorithms and prototype testing. But,...
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The incredible shrinking chip - CES 2015
A significant amount of real estate inside your cell phone is taken up by a chip called a power management integrated circuit (PMIC). The chip delivers power from the battery to different areas within the phone, an efficient but bulky...
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NSF's 2014 Alan T. Waterman Awardee Feng Zhang discusses his research on the brain
NSF's 2014 Alan T. Waterman Awardee Feng Zhang discusses the work of his research team on the brain. Zhang is an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT and a core member of the Broad Institute of MIT and...
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Careful, it's hot, hot hot!
In this week’s episode of NSF Science Now, we discover how dangerously hot cars can get in the summer sun, new strategies for learning math; and finally, we explore how a new material can shift sound. Check it out!
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Engines of Curiosity: Award-Winning Museums Look to the Future
2015 Public Service Award winners extend their reach beyond those iconic buildings, into classrooms, curriculum and the lives of students. Winners of the Public Service Award, The Museum of Science in Boston and New York City’s American...
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Assembling water-free DNA
In episode14, Charlie and Jordan search underground caves for clues to prehistoric climate changes, explore the difference between mental maps and compasses, and look at water-free DNA assembly.
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4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week Episode 14
Bilingual brains, computing clouds, a life-saving musical sensor and genome sequencing in medieval cemeteries. It’s 4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week, all with funding from NSF. Musical sensor shows bad...
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4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week - Episode 26
Bloody good sweat, changing climate/changing sex, sauce that delays frost, and fab fossil find! Sweat works like blood for health monitoring https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2019/03/n2074289.html University of Cincinnati Abbott Diabetes...
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4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About - Episode 35
Wildfire cocktail, electronic tattoos, chill dinosaurs, and office polluters. It's 4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About - Episode 35. ENG/Light-up tattoos use electronics printed right onto skin...
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4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About - Episode 31
Rugged roach bots, squishy storage solution, planting solar, and the amazing feats of bird feet. A Squishy Rubik’s Cube® that Chemists Built from Polymers Holds Promise for Data Storage...
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Hey high schoolers! Like super heroes? Love science Check out NSF’s Generation Nano competition!
The National Science Foundation and the National Nanotechnology Initiative are excited to launch the second annual “Generation Nano: Small Science, Superheroes” competition! The competition challenges high school students to create a...
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What is the future of deep learning?
What is the future of deep learning? Charles Cadieu, Co-Founder and CEO of Bay Labs, answers your question in this edition of Ask a Scientist. Bay Labs is supported by America’s Seed Fund powered by the National Science Foundation, a...
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Robin Murphy talks about her deployment of rescue robots during the 9/11 response in New York City.
Robin Murphy, director of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue at Texas A&M University, was on-site at Ground Zero within 24 hours of the attack. She brought along a team of students and colleagues to deploy a cadre of robots...
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How can we test a structural design for earthquake resiliency?
How can we test a structural design for earthquake resiliency? We asked Shiling Pei, Colorado School of Mines Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering professor, the answer on this Ask a Scientist.
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Whales Of A Tail
In episode 57, Charlie and Jordan explore different whale species-specific hotspots for dinner time. Using acoustic data, researchers have found that as multiple species of whales feast on herring, they tend to stick with their own kind....
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Understanding the Mind by Mapping the Brain - Science Nation
Neuroanatomist Jacopo Annese is looking for 1,000 brains. The Director of the Brain Observatory at the University of California, San Diego is on a quest to collect, dissect, and digitize images of the human brain for the Digital Brain...
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Paper snow flakes and solar panels
In episode 31, Charlie and Jordan talk about the ancient Japanese art of Kirigami and how researchers are using it to inspire new, lightweight solar cells.
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How soft robots could shape our future
How soft robots could shape our future. This is a Squishy Robot. Researchers at Stanford University and UC Santa Barbara, with funding from the National Science Foundation, have developed this soft robot that combines traditional and...
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NSF & The Consumer Electronics Show 2014
At 2014's Consumer Electronics Show, visitors were introduced to brand new products never seen before. At Eureka park, visitors could take look into future products from NSF funded SBIR companies that offer prototypes with the potential...
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Engineers are 'schooling' themselves on fish maneuvers - Science Nation
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), aerospace engineer Michael Philen and his team at Virginia Tech are investigating the biomechanics of fish locomotion, in hopes of contributing to the next generation of robotic...
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Effects On Ocean Life - The Carbon Cycle
What will increased carbon do to life in the oceans?
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Carbon Dioxide And Global Warming - How Do We Know?
What does carbon dioxide have to do with global warming?