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Meet SAM, the bricklaying robot
Meet metal-muscled SAM, the bricklaying robotic assistant of the future. SAM, short for Semi-Automated Mason, was developed by Construction Robotics, a small business funded by the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation...
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4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About this Week – Episode 11
Hot and cold time travel, light-speed A.I. for I.D., and hey, where’d the water go? It’s your weekly briefing on the latest discoveries you might not hear about anywhere else, all with funding from the National Science Foundation. For...
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NSF's Science and Technology PSA
It's time for science and technology! Enjoy this old school PSA from the National Science Foundation.
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ELEVATOR PITCH: Real people. Real elevators. (Ep. 2)
What if you had just a few seconds to sell an idea? Entrepreneurs encounter this situation every day. Often, so do people funded by the National Science Foundation’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology...
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Ice Core Secrets Could Reveal Answers to Global Warming - Science Nation
At the Stable Isotope Lab in Boulder, Colo., scientists are doing a lot of the same things that those CSI folks do on TV. But instead of being "crime scene investigators," these experts are more like "cold scene investigators."...
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Firesuits - Science of Speed
"Frightening" is how Jeff Gordon describes fire, even though he knows he's protected head to toe (and right down to his underwear) by fire-resistant Nomex fabric. Firesuits and the associated gear don't just protect drivers from fire,...
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Engineering improvements to deep brain stimulation - Science Nation
Researchers aim to give DBS patients more control, fewer side effects This University of Washington research is advancing deep brain stimulation, or DBS, which is used to treat people with essential tremor, Parkinson's disease and other...
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New 3-D Structures Assemble with Remarkable Precision - Science Nation.56fbf5f8-05ac-4a98-8318-ea6420aeee12.part
While it is relatively straightforward to build a box on the macroscale, it is much more challenging at smaller micro and nanometer length scales. At those sizes, 3D structures are too small to be assembled by any machine and they must...
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National Science Foundation - Live Stream (2)
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Nobel Prize Winner Rainer Weiss on NSF's funding of LIGO
2017 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Rainer Weiss recounts the road to the National Science Foundation's investment in LIGO.
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Fab Lab at White House Maker Faire - Neil Gershenfeld
FabLab creator Neil Gershenfeld of MIT talks about driving a mobile FabLab onto the White House lawn for the White House Maker Faire on June 18, 2014. For more information visit: http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=131761
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Device and game helps children, adults with asthma - Aluna
Aluna, a small business supported by the National Science Foundation, is developing a device and app to help people monitor chronic lung conditions like asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cystic fibrosis, and pulmonary...
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This robot took a picture of itself every 10 years for 900 years
We like to imagine what robots will do and look like in the future, especially during National Robotics Week. Maybe they’ll take selfies before they go to work? Indeed, robots may someday become as commonplace as computers in our daily...
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NSF at the USA Science and Engineering Festival 2014
Check out some of the highlights from NSF funded researchers who brought their science and studies to life at the USA Science and Engineering Festival.
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Xandem Technology uses radio waves to monitor movement - CES 2014
At the Consumer Electronics Show, CES 2014, Xandem Technology showed off a prototype that uses radio waves to track human body movement. Applications for this product could revolutionize industries like personal home security. Xandem...
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Human geneticist and leukemia research pioneer, Dr. Janet Rowley discusses her career
Janet Rowley was an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers. She received the National Medal of Science 1998. As a medalist, this year she...
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Online access to mental health therapy – TAO Connect
TAO Connect, a small business funded by the National Science Foundation, provides online mental health therapy.
The company uses artificial intelligence to create low-cost, accessible, software-based practice tools for treatment for...
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Wildfires jeopardize future forests!
As wildfires continue to rage in California, a future with fewer forests is very real according to findings from a new study on the resilience of Rocky Mountain forests. A team lead by Colorado State University, and University of Idaho,...
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National Science Foundation - Live Stream
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Nanoparticle Cancer Detector - Science Nation
A San Diego researcher has developed a way to tag cancer cells for early detection in the blood stream. Professor Michael Sailor hopes to dramatically change how cancer is treated. He is on a quest to create nanoparticles that travel the...
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Reconstructing Climate History - How Do We Know?
Why is it important to reconstruct the long history of the Earth's climate, and how can we do that?
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This newly discovered dinosaur wears its heart on its...tail!
NSF-funded researchers at Ohio University discovered a long-necked titanosaur with a heart-shaped tail in southwestern Tanzania. The dinosaur provides evolutionary clues for the African continent.
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Waterman Award Winners 1995-2004
A look back at past Waterman Award winners from 2005 to 2015.
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The need for speed!
NSF-funded research at the University of California Riverside sheds new light on the role of the tail in locomotion.