Small business, big impact: How NSF-funded startups are joining the fight against COVID-19

From visible starlight to radio waves, the Milky Way galaxy has long been observed through the various frequencies of electromagnetic radiation it emits.

It could be a scene from a Hollywood horror movie: NSF-funded researchers found a new species of living creatures — described as pale, eyeless and with nearly 500 legs — thriving in the soil under Los…

Over 3 billion people — more than one-third of the world's population — depend on ocean and coastal ecosystems for their livelihood.

April 15, 2023, was graduate school commitment day for thousands of students across the nation, including about 2,500 who received fellowship offers from the U.S.

The U.S. National Science Foundation supports research opportunities and provides stipends for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and scholars.

Mass timber — a structural material engineered by bonding together layers of wood — is gaining popularity in the construction sector.

An international study, funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation, found that horses have been present on the Great Plains of North America since as early as the 16th century.

Artificial intelligence models, such as Open AI's ChatGPT, have dominated the news cycle and captured the public's imagination.

With mouths agape, movie audiences for more than 40 years have watched a certain outgunned rebel spaceship's futile attempt to flee a ginormous imperial star destroyer.

The US National Science Foundation is at the forefront of these efforts, supporting researchers studying black holes; facilities such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, the…