The Discovery Files
Interstitial Fluid Monitoring
Blood may be the gold standard for health monitoring, but nobody likes the poking and prodding.
Fungicide
New insights into fungal enzymes may reduce crop losses.
Multidrug Cancer Treatment
Multidrug nanoparticle for targeting cancer.
Closer To Quantum Goals
A new control method for qubits in quantum computer systems.
Training the Mind
Could VR technology be used to improve cognitive performance?
Painting with corn
Corn is being used to create renewable acrylic chemicals.
Water Purification Aerogel
What if your breakfast was a key ingredient for water purification?
Solar Powered Sustainable Hydrogen
Researchers develop a more efficient approach to hydrogen fuel production.
Spray On Smart Skin
In the future, you may use hand gestures to control your devices.
Ancient Marine Food Webs
How much have food webs changed over the last few hundred million years?
Paper Thin Solar Cells
What if your clothes could charge the phone in your pocket?
Mapping The North Pole
What can high-resolution imagery teach us about the North Pole?
How Many Cups of Water?
Is the adage about drinking eight glasses of water a day really how much we need?
Sea Inspired Robot Arms
How might creatures of the sea inspire better robotic grasping?
Learning with Light
Could you remove latency by processing a query directly on a smart device?
3D Printing on Mars
Can we bring the materials we'll need in space, or will we be able to build when we get there?
3D Printing on Mars
Can we bring the materials we'll need in space, or will we be able to build when we get there?
Light Responsive Surfactants
In microgravity there is no buoyancy to make bubbles dissipate. Could light make that process occur?
Faraday Instability
What can microgravity teach us about Faraday instability.
ISS Projects Overview
An unprecedented seven NSF-supported experiments are headed to the ISS National Lab.
The Importance of Bee-Ing Together
Bees come in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes, but what critical role does this diversity play?
Piercing Fang Energetics
Creatures have developed many ways to tear into their prey, but not all tissues are made the same.
Your Brain Is Always Listening
Your brain is always at work, whether you are consciously listening or not, making note of the...
Material That Thinks For Itself
Touch receptors in your skin send messages to your brain, and directs you to look in the direction
Astronauts, Satellites, Airplanes and Solar Flares
Dangerous particle bursts bombard Earth from space. Is there a way to predict these solar flare-ups?
Microplastics & Environmental Weathering
What does studying microplastics and environmental weathering reveal about the spread of pollutants?
Underwater Camera Powered by Sound
Can a camera powered by sound help deep-sea exploration? Learn more on NSF's "The Discovery Files."
The Importance of Bee-Ing Together
Bees come in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes, but what critical role does this diversity play?
Power Grid Butterfly Effect
Minor events can cause a failure in the U.S. power grid, impacting large sections of the country.
Computing Image Sensor
Researchers are creating a new technology to help autonomous vehicles make split-second decisions