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NSF invests $25.5M in research to drive new U.S. manufacturing technologies and talent pipelines

The U.S. National Science Foundation has announced a $25.5 million investment to support fundamental research and workforce development aimed at…
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On the left is an illustration of the experimental setup from this study.Molybdenum diselenide nanodots, represented by red triangles, are embedded in tungsten diselenide and encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) on top and bottom. See caption for additional details.

NSF Graduate Research Fellow's work on light contributes to nanodot breakthrough 

Americans spend a lot of time on their screens. The images on those screens are made of pixels — tiny dots that represent a single point of color…
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A research team takes a boat down Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal to take samples.

Microbes from Brooklyn could help mitigate industrial contamination

Microorganisms with extreme abilities have laid the groundwork for decades of biotechnologies from the PCR technique that enables amplification of DNA…
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NSF ZEUS becomes the most powerful laser in the U.S.

The U.S. National Science Foundation Zettawatt-Equivalent Ultrashort pulse laser System (NSF ZEUS) laser facility at the University of Michigan now…
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Sparking curiosity in the future semiconductor workforce

The United States semiconductor industry is projected to have between 60,000 and 100,000 unfilled jobs by 2030. As the need for semiconductor…
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Training AI to see more like humans

At Brown University, an innovative new project is revealing that teaching artificial intelligence to perceive things more like people may begin with…
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Microplastics on the Beach

Researchers discover microplastics at all ocean depths

Researchers with support from the U.S. National Science Foundation published a global benchmark of microplastic distribution in the ocean, revealing…
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Light from dawn of the universe observed by Earth-based telescopes

For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation to look back over 13 billion years and…
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the growth of new layers on cholesterol monohydrate surfaces

Cholesterol crystal formation captured on video for first time, may lead to more effective treatments for high cholesterol

With support from the U.S. National Science Foundation, researchers at the University of Houston have captured the dynamics of microscopic cholesterol…
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