Science Matters

Across the developing world, daily cooking responsibilities are largely held by women and girls who cook — often indoors — on open fires fueled by organic matter like wood or dung.

That magnet on your refrigerator? Let's supersize it. Imagine it's 1 million times more powerful than Earth's magnetic field and as heavy as a small herd of elephants.

The quantum future is on our doorstep — and the U.S. National Science Foundation is helping to bring it home.

The U.S. National Science Foundation supports multiple programs for high school, undergraduate and post-baccalaureate students to help fund research opportunities.

Congress passed the bipartisan “CHIPS and Science Act,” a watershed moment for U.S. innovation and industry. It unlocks investments in U.S.

In the U.S., more people are learning to read, write and speak in a new language using the app Duolingo.

Every picture tells a story. Each portrait in the gallery of directors at the U.S. National Science Foundation headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, is a chapter in the U.S.

Because breathing is generally involuntary, we sometimes forget how complicated it is.

When high school students think about producing hip-hop tracks, many of them also understand the importance of learning to code.

The geographic South Pole sits more than 800 miles from the nearest coastline of Antarctica.