National Science Foundation - Where Discoveries Begin

National Science Foundation presents FY 2021 budget request

Press Statement

NSF selects 7 winners from its first-ever NSF 2026 Idea Machine prize competition

News Release

Researchers uncover strong link between sadness and smoking

Research News

Connecting the prehistoric past to the global future

Research News

Science Zone

Special Report

Deaf infants exposed to American Sign Language more attuned to visual-communicative signals

Research News

Lemurs rely on scent when it comes to finding a mate

Research News

NSF's 10 Big Ideas

Special Report

Repositioning SBE's Programs: Opportunities to Learn More

Oak trees in Southern U.S. cities are natural urban air filters

Research News

3.8-million-year-old fossil cranium unveils more about human ancestry

Research News

White House honors 80 NSF-supported early-career researchers

News Release

Neanderthals used resin 'glue' for tools

Research News

Forests show pathways to a sustainable future

Research News

Government-funded research increasingly fuels innovation

Research News

Stat Insights: Asian/Pacific Americans in Science and Engineering

New research accurately predicts Australian wheat harvests months in advance

Research News

Low-cost intervention boosts undergraduate interest in computer science

Research News

Dataset Bridges Human Vision and Machine Learning

Research News

2019 Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities Report goes live

News Release

National Science Foundation presents the President’s FY 2020 budget request

Press Statement

Understanding how the brain makes sense of sound

Research News

Media call: NSF Fiscal Year 2020 budget request

Media Advisory

When coral reefs change, researchers and local fishing communities see different results

Research News

Statement on executive order to maintain American leadership in artificial intelligence

Press Statement

SBE and NSF's Big Ideas

Upwind wind farms can reduce the energy production of downwind neighbor turbines

Research News

Domestic violence interventions: Thoughts on what works to address this costly crime

Research News

Intimate-partner domestic violence in the US: costs, consequences, causes and possible solutions

Research News

Evacuation decision-making: How people make choices in disasters

Research News