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Researchers Make Breakthrough in the Production of Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
View an interview with Mark C. Hersam of Northwestern University. Double-sided carbon nanotubes are highly prized for their use in solar cells and other applications, but until now creating a supply of just double-sided carbon nanotubes,...
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HOV ALVIN!
This is the HOV Alvin… the Navy’s Human Occupied Vehicle, supported by the National Science Foundation. Alvin was the world’s first deep-diving submersible. With submersibles like Alvin, NSF will continue to discover and understand the...
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NASA | Firefly Teaser
The small satellite, with a big mission, is appropriately named "Firefly." Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the pint-sized satellite will study the most powerful natural particle accelerator on Earth — lightning — when...
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NASA | Black Hole Launches 'Bullets' of Gas.
Using observations from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite and the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope, an international team of astronomers has identified the moment when...
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Synthetic proteins: Mimicking the molecular machinery of life - Science Nation
Imagine synthetic antibiotics that could fight infections like MRSA, custom pharmaceuticals to treat advanced prostate cancer, and new enzymes that will turn cellulose into fuel. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF),...
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Are There Surprises In The Carbon Cycle? - The Carbon Cycle
Are there surprises in the carbon cycle that could lesson climate warming or make it much worse?
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Fab Labs - Science Nation
Imagine if you had the tools to build almost anything you wanted. One MIT physicist has figured out how to fit four tools into one small space, so people can do just that. He calls it a, "Fab Lab," and, with help from the National...
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New Leaf Sensor Alerts When Plants Are Thirsty - Science Nation
It started as a project for long term space survival, when NASA estimated that crews headed to or living on Mars would spend 80% of their waking hours farming! But, with support from the National Science Foundation, research into a leaf...
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Waterman Award Winners 1985-1994
A look back at past Waterman Award winners from 1985 to 1994.
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Ride of the Water Droplets
Engineers can now create materials that repel liquids so well they're called superhydrophobic, i.e. they have a serious water phobia. With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), this booming area of research has the...
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NSF exhibits inform, engage, inspire visitors - 2016 S & E Festival
Capturing imaginations and inspiring future generations of scientists and engineers, the fourth annual Science & Engineering Festival featured thousands of hands-on STEM activities, including 26 NSF-funded super science and engineering...
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A day in the life of Robotina
In her NSF-supported research, Julie Shah and her team at MIT use Robotina to learn how to build better robotic cooperative assistants, as envisioned by the National Robotics Initiative, an multi-agency effort to advance fundamental...
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NSF Kids Wish Happy Birthday
NSF just turned 66 years old! Sing along as future scientists and engineers wish the National Science Foundation a happy birthday.
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Treating oral cancer with an in-mouth wafer – Biotech’s future
To treat oral cancer, NSF-funded small business Privo Technologies has created a platform that delivers treatments directly to the affected area. Privo develops new classes of targeted treatments, such as chemotherapy drugs, designed to...
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Passport to Discovery - What's up With Plasma?
Today, your Passport to Discovery takes you to UCLA's Basic Plasma Science Facility. Come learn how this facility uses a vacuumed sealed tube to create super-heated gas.
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Ocean Temperatures -- Changing Planet
Observations document that the Earth's ocean is warming. As the ocean warms, it will also expand in volume, causing sea level to rise. This rise is in addition to the sea level rise that results from water added from melting ice and snow...
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The Solar Decathlon: Housing's Bright Spot - Science Nation
During October of 2010, taking a walk on the Mall in Washington D.C. might have been more like taking a walk into the future. Twenty solar-powered homes were sprawled across the mall's west end, transforming it from a park into something...
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When Nature Strikes - Hurricanes
Hurricanes are one of nature's most powerful natural hazards. Jenni Evans of Pennsylvania State University and Jeff Donnelly from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are studying how hurricanes form and what factors influence where...
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NCSA Installs New Hardware
NCSA recently installed new IBM 780 hardware at the National Petascale Computing Facility. This interim system helps our staff and the researchers we work with prepare for the massive Blue Waters system that will come online next year....
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New delivery system for prescription eye drugs - Biotech's Future
Jade Therapeutics, a small business with funding from the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research program, is solving a problem that has persisted in the ophthalmology and pharmacology industries for years. How to...
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Brain-Computer Interface - Mysteries of the Brain
Neuroengineer Rajesh Rao of the University of Washington is developing brain-computer interfaces, devices that can monitor and extract brain activity to enable a machine or computer to accomplish tasks, from playing video games to...
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Batteries of the future made with salt - Science Nation
UCSD materials scientist aims to clear hurdles to development of sodium-based rechargeable batteries Running out of "juice," finding a place to charge up, borrowing a charger, waiting for the charge--it's a familiar ritual for cell phone...
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Wind Power! - Green Revolution
Join host Lisa Van Pay, PhD (aka a scientist) as she explores exciting wind energy research taking place around the country. For more Green Revolution, go to: http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/greenrevolution/
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Spinach to hearts Leafy vegetable inspires new way to generate heart tissue - Science Nation
NSF graduate student training promotes innovator's mindset to solve critical issues in medicine Description: Most people see a vegetable when they see a spinach leaf, but in a lab at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, they see the...