Science Matters

Mona Lisa, Lady with an Ermine, Head of a Young Woman. Notice something? This list of iconic portraits features women. Unnamed women. And many of their stories remain untold.

Scientists and educators at minority-serving institutions, or MSIs, are crucial to advancing the frontiers of knowledge in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics enterprise.

For decades, the U.S. has led the world with its trailblazing discoveries and technological breakthroughs that drive the economy, impact our daily lives and deepen our understanding of nature.

A U.S. National Science Foundation ocean research vessel under construction will be named R/V Gilbert R.

Kakani Katija grew up wanting to be an explorer and dreamed of becoming an astronaut.

In 1980, the U.S. National Science Foundation established the initial Long-Term Ecological Research sites to initiate continuing, and large-scale, ecological research across the globe.

The internet is an essential part of modern life, and dependence on online services accelerated throughout the past two years as millions of people worked, shopped and interacted with others remotely…

Luge was first competed at the Olympics in 1964 and requires athletes to barrel down an ice track on small sleds accelerating to speeds of nearly 90 mph.

On a mission in 2009 to help determine if life could exist in extreme environments on alien moons and planets, U.S.

1. COVID-19 vaccine spray NSF advanced development of a vaccine spray that protects against multiple COVID-19 variants and might also help boost the immune system against future diseases.