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How emergency responders improvised to save lives after 9/11 - Short interview
James Kendra, director of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, and Tricia Wachtendorf, the center's associate director, were both present in New York City in the days following 9/11. In partnership with colleagues...
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The birth of the first stars
When did the first stars light up the universe? After 12 years of experimental effort, a team of scientists has detected the fingerprints of the earliest stars in the universe. Find out how they did it! __For more on the discovery, see...
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Engineering to Solve Real-World Problems - USA Science and Engineering Festival
The Mobile Area Education Foundation is designing lessons to teach kids that engineering and math can solve real-world problems...like designing ways to catch blood clots in a model human circulatory system.
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Marine Mammals' Need for Speed!
In this episode of NSF Science Now, we also learn about a new tool for combating mosquito-borne disease, we explore how kirigami is inspiring new materials, and finally, we discover new hydrothermal vents. Check it out!
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Scientists Discover Oldest Croc-Like Cousin to the Dinosaur!
Scientists have discovered the oldest cousin to the dinosaur! The creature named Teleocrater rhadinus, is a carnivorous animal living more than 245 million years ago during the Triassic Period, before dinosaurs. Recently unearthed in...
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Science of the Winter Olympics - Bobsledding
The winter games in Vancouver provide a chance for the United States' four-man bobsled team to win its first gold medal in more than 60 years. And with the help of Paul Doherty, senior scientist at the Exploratorium in San Francisco,...
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Cell talk
In episode 40, Charlie and Jordan demonstrate how the cells responsible for relaying information from the ear to the brain adapt to noise levels in an environment. A cell in the auditory nerve exposed to loud sounds for a prolonged...
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Marine Biologist - Careers in Science and Engineering
What's it really like to be an engineer or a scientist? What do they really do all day? You're about to find out! Meet the next generation of engineers and scientists in these profiles of young professionals, who may just inspire you to...
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Very Large Array observatory reveals the universe - Science Nation
Black holes, star births and deaths, colliding galaxies and more -- all in a day's work at the VLA The Very Large Array, or VLA, is a complex of 27 massive antennas on the Plains of San Agustin in central New Mexico, all pointing skyward...
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Software helps farmers use image data to analyze crops - ViSUS
ViSUS LLC, a small business funded by the National Science Foundation, has created software to help farmers analyze aerial photos of crops. Farmers often gather crop data using drones to take aerial photos, but it can take up to two days...
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New technology for the blind! NSF Science Now 57!
In this week’s episode, we learn about new technology for the blind; a newly engineered yeast, and finally, we explore the oceans with Mantis cam. Check it out!
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Designing robotic sharks to study vertebral columns
Dive in with NSF funded researcher John Long and his robotic sharks. A professor at Vassar College, Dr. Long and his team study real live sharks and their vertebral columns. They then take these findings and design computer models and...
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The National Science Foundation - A Foundation for Innovation
A video highlighting how NSF support for fundamental research is critical to discovery, innovation and the economic growth of the nation.
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Researchers develop modular robots that can autonomously adapt to changing environment.
In this week’s episode, we test a new breed of drones that can navigate without GPS; we explore changing terrain with shapeshifting autonomous robots, and finally, we examine a new 3D bioprinting technique that could someday create...
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Next-generation optogenetics -- early concept brain research
Researchers all over the world use a technology called optogenetics, which allows them to turn neurons on and off in living laboratory organisms, by exposing them to certain types of light. Stephen Boppart of the University of Illinois...
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A drone helping farmers better manage their crops! NSF Science Now 17
This week’s episode explores silicon chip technology that could possibly extend cell phone battery life, babies and higher math ability, a drone helping farmers better manage their crops and, finally, how more than 83,000 volunteer...
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Working to better forecast the size of future earthquakes and tsunamis! Science Now 29
In this week's episode, we discover a new genetic toolkit for achieving increased plant production. We explore what our brain is doing when we read. We discover ways of making a more reliable prosthesis--and finally, we learn how...
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Small, low-cost light sensors using photonic crystals
Chromation, a small business funded by the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research program, makes small, low-cost sensors for light and color measurement. An optical spectrometer is an instrument used to measure...
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Behind the scenes in Antarctica with the National Science Foundation and Disneynature Penguins
It is no easy task to film thousands of penguins in their natural habitat on a remote Antarctic coastline—but it was made possible with the support of the National Science Foundation-managed U.S. Antarctic Program. See what it was like...
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2014 BIO Convention Innovation Zone features frontier biotech research
NSF-funded small businesses with innovative biomedical technologies based on fundamental research were featured at the 2014 BIO International Convention, the world's largest gathering of the biotechnology industry. The companies were...
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Materials Genome Initiative - Three Years of Progress
Advanced materials are essential to human well-being and are the cornerstone for emerging industries. Yet today, it can take ten to twenty years or more from initial research on a new material to first use. That's why in June 2011...
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Chemistry pioneer sets her sights on rare earth oxides - Science Nation
Investigating high temperature materials critical to everyday electronics Renowned chemist, geochemist and materials scientist Alexandra Navrotsky has become a pioneer in her field over the last 50 years. She even has a mineral named...
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Man makes history at the bottom of the world!
Winter at the South Pole. Six months of darkness. Ice, far as the eye can see. Sub-zero temperatures…and no flights, in or out, from February to October. But none of that has deterred Astrophysicist Robert Schwarz, of the University of...
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What is machine learning? (2)
What is machine learning? Helen Gu, Founder and CEO of Insightfinder Inc., answers your question in this edition of Ask a Scientist. Insightfinder Inc. is supported by America’s Seed Fund powered by the National Science Foundation, a...