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NSF statement on President’s FY 2022 discretionary budget request

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NSF Statement on 2021 Nobel Laureates in Science

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Study suggests use of bone tools to produce clothing dates back 120,000 years

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NSF supports infrastructure-focused research projects grounded in behavioral and social science

NSF builds scientific capacity at more than 20 minority-serving institutions in 12 states

Metabolism changes with age, but not when people might think

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Heat-related symptoms affected one-quarter of Americans in summer 2020

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Cold weather cost New England electric customers nearly $1.8 billion in one month

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Developing a taste for carbs wasn't necessarily a bad thing

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NSF recognizes a mathematician and a social scientist with the Alan T. Waterman Award

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NSF and NCSES release 2021 Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering report

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How humans evolved a super-high cooling capacity

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NSF-supported researchers achieve two-way communication with dreaming people

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Examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the rural American West

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Noise and light pollution affect breeding habits in birds

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How'd we get so choosy about friendships late in life? Ask the chimps

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Statement on the Nobel Prize for Economics 2020

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Forest margins may be more resilient to climate change than previously thought

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Modern humans reached westernmost Europe 5,000 years earlier than previously known

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SBE Leaders Lupia and Craig-Henderson Join NSF Speakers Bureau

Ancient Maya reservoirs contained toxic pollution

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New director takes helm at National Science Foundation

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Largest, oldest Maya monument suggests importance of communal work

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New and diverse experiences linked to enhanced happiness, new study shows

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Researchers to measure 'coronavirus slide' in kids' reading skills

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Creativity feels (really) good for some: Aha! + Aaaah

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Ancient teeth from Peru hint that now-extinct monkeys crossed the Atlantic from Africa

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Where in the brain does creativity come from? Evidence from jazz musicians

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Modern humans, Neanderthals share a tangled genetic history, study affirms

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Researchers track interactions with surfaces likely to carry COVID-19

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