The Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) are the nation's highest honors for teachers of mathematics and science (including computer science). NSF has prepared this video for teachers to see and...

How long should a tail be for a swimming organism? Annette Peko Hosoi, professor and associate dean of engineering at MIT, answers the question on this edition of "Ask a Scientist."

NSF-funded small business Arable Labs has developed a crop and weather sensor that delivers real-time, precision weather information straight to the hands of farmers in the field.
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The technology packs sensors into portal...

NASCAR corners are divided into three parts because the car's grip changes in different parts of a turn. The higher center of gravity in the new car challenges crew chiefs to minimize weight shift around a turn. Equipment like the...

What do we know about how people recognize faces? Catherine Stamoulis, assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, answers the question on this edition of "Ask a Scientist."

In skiing events like the downhill, slalom or ski jump it's often the skis that are bound to an athlete's feet--and the materials used to make them--that give these athletes an edge over the competition. U.S. Ski Team members Julia...

More than 120,000 people are on the national organ transplant waiting list, and the list continues to grow. To meet this need, Miromatrix Medical, a small business funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), is developing a...

Controlling today’s advanced prosthetic arms and hands can be very challenging. Often, today’s prosthetic systems can’t provide the type of control and functionality for day to day tasks.

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InfoSense, Inc., a small business that received early funding from the National Science Foundation, has developed a technology that helps keep sewer pipes clog-free.



The company, which is spun out of University of...

Reproducibility. Replicability. They’re terms that keep popping up as the scientific community discusses how best to ensure that published research is robust and reliable. Brian Nosek, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia...

William Martin at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has drawn on mathematical systems once thought to have no practical use to help make public key cryptography run effectively on sensors with tiny processors and meager power supplies.

In 1994, when the Federal Communications Commission decided to allocate broadcast licenses via auction rather than lottery, it didn't do so in a vacuum. The rationale for the move came from the work of economists and other researchers...

How are scientists monitoring CO2 around the globe?

Brief oveview of the Event Horizon telescope with a simple explanation of how the EHT works and the black hole image it captured. Includes a soundbite with the National Science Foundation director and the Event Horizon Telescope director.

Steering a wheelchair with tongue movements could one day give quadriplegics a taste of independence. With funding from the National Science Foundation, Maysam Ghovanloo at Georgia Tech designs technology that allows people with...

What happens in your brain when you get lost or forget something? Johns Hopkins University Neuroscientist Amy Shelton believes she can find the answer. With funding from the National Science Foundation, she's testing human spatial...

I still had 2 gallons of glue from the last glue trap video, so I thought this would be a great way to use the rest of it! I forgot how gross the glue really is though, I practically need to shower in WD-40 to get if off.

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Morehouse College professor and director of the NSF-supported Culturally Relevant Computing Lab, Kinnis Gosha, dedicates his time to reshaping the demographics of the field of computer science.