Science Matters

In 1989, a pair of scientists posited sending swarms of robots, some as small as gnats, to explore other planets.

While we rest peacefully at night, our brains remain hard at work.

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

You can't see or feel it, but everything around you — including your own body — is slowly shrinking and expanding.

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.