United States Antarctic Program, Brought to you by NSF
Antarctica is the world’s southernmost continent, more than 9,000 miles from the United States and the size of the continental U.S. and Mexico combined. Yet, for much of recorded history, no one was really sure if it even existed.
National Security Brought to You by NSF
It’s impossible to consider the legacy of World War II without acknowledging the tremendous leaps forward in technology that the war effort required. Radar, mass production of penicillin, and atomic weapons are just three areas where wartime scientists made breakthroughs that were out of reach just a few years before.
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Disaster Preparedness and Response Brought to You by NSF
Each year, in the U.S. and around the globe, earthquakes, storms, volcanic eruptions and other natural disasters claim lives and leave thousands displaced. They destroy property, devastate communities and strain social systems ranging from healthcare to food supplies.
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Science learning beyond the classroom, brought to you by NSF
For generations, children’s television and other informal learning supported by NSF has sparked a lifelong interest in science. This September marks 25 years since Scholastic’s Magic School Bus veered off the written page and into our television sets, bringing with it a credo that emphasized taking chances, making mistakes and getting messy.
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Windows on the Universe Brought to You by NSF
For centuries, to know the cosmos meant looking skyward, peering through a lens, and tracking the motions and properties of distant objects and events. Today, finding answers to the universe’s many remaining secrets requires a much broader approach, from research teams that can include thousands of scientists to “lenses” that capture more than light.
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Ocean Discoveries Brought to You by NSF
We live in an age of discovery. Humans may have mapped and explored much of the world’s continental terrain, but roughly 80 percent of this planet remains mysterious. Our oceans and waterways affect our weather, our atmosphere, where we live, what we eat and countless other aspects of our lives. But we still have so much to discover about the oceans and seafloor.
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Game-changing Technologies Brought to You by NSF
The National Science Foundation is closer than you think. Spend time texting, tweeting, talking or browsing on a mobile device? Smartphones are jam-packed with technologies generated from NSF-funded basic research. Thanks to NSF, you can surf, even if you can’t swim. NSF helped create the superhighway that became the Internet, and, it also gave us Google.
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12 irreplaceable innovations made possible by NSF
Before the internet was commercialized, before your phone was smart, before there was a picture of a black hole, there was an NSF-funded researcher pursuing their curiosity. NSF-funded research has laid the foundation for many of the groundbreaking discoveries and game-changing technologies we know today.
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