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Why Frances Arnold’s Nobel Prize is a significant achievement for engineering

The distance of microbial competitions shapes their community structures

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Insight into swimming fish could lead to robotics advances

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NSF, Popular Science announce this year’s Vizzies winners

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NSF announces awards to shape the human-technology partnership for the well-being of workers and their productivity

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Kon-Well Wang to lead NSF Division of Engineering Education and Centers

Microfluidic molecular exchanger helps control therapeutic cell manufacturing

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New spheres trick, trap and terminate water contaminant

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Single atoms break carbon's strongest bond

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NSF launches pilot for national high school engineering course

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NSF to build capacity for convergent engineering research centers with national impacts

NSF announces new awards for quantum research, technologies

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NSF announces new measures to protect research community from harassment

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NSF: Next steps against harassment

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Media call: NSF harassment policy next steps

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NSF funds new integrative approaches to cognitive science, neuroscience

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New TRIPODS+X awards target Big Data solutions for broad range of research challenges

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NSF INCLUDES takes major step forward with new awards

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Got an idea for science and engineering research? Send it to the NSF 2026 Idea Machine

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Device harvests energy from low-frequency vibrations

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Engineered sand zaps storm water pollutants

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NSF invests in research to help disrupt operations of illicit supply networks

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Biosensor allows real-time oxygen monitoring for 'organs-on-a-chip'

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Biofilm Project Takes Aim at Erosion Control

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Rice U. system selectively sequesters toxins from water

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New NSF awards support the creation of bio-based semiconductors

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About half of parents use cell phones while driving with young children in the car

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NSF awards more than $150 million to early career researchers in engineering and computer science

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DNA enzyme shuffles cell membranes a thousand times faster than its natural counterpart

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