Nearly 300 NSF-funded small businesses to demonstrate emerging technologies

Nearly 300 NSF-funded small businesses to demonstrate emerging technologies

Small businesses with awards from America's Seed Fund, powered by the National Science Foundation, will demonstrate their cutting-edge, emerging technology June 4-5 in Atlanta.

Inventors and representatives from approximately 300 U.S.-based, NSF-funded small businesses will be available at the Technology Showcase to talk about what's next in fields like artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, sensors and medical devices.

Each ...

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Published May 31, 2018 at 01:00PM
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NSF-Simons centers to search for the Rules of Life

NSF-Simons centers to search for the Rules of Life

The National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the Simons Foundation, has launched four new centers to bring mathematical perspectives to the biological search for the Rules of Life.

The NSF-Simons Research Centers for Mathematics of Complex Biological Systems will explore how information encoded in DNA results in complex organisms with diverse forms, functions and behaviors when it is manipulated by changing environments across multiple time scales.

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Published May 24, 2018 at 02:00PM
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Helping stroke survivors walk as normally as possible

Helping stroke survivors walk as normally as possible

Research team focuses on “locomotor learning” for lasting rehabilitation

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Published May 21, 2018 at 04:00AM
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Hurricanes: Stronger, slower, wetter in the future?

Hurricanes: Stronger, slower, wetter in the future?

Find related stories on NSF's geosciences risk and resilience interest area.

Scientists have developed a detailed analysis of how 22 recent hurricanes would be different if they formed under the conditions predicted for the late 21st century.

While each storm's transformation would be unique, on balance, the hurricanes would become a little stronger, a little slower-moving, and a ...

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Published May 21, 2018 at 02:00PM
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Statement on Artificial Intelligence for American Industry

Statement on Artificial Intelligence for American Industry

On May 10, 2018, the White House convened academic researchers, industry experts and federal leaders at an event on Artificial Intelligence for American Industry. National Science Foundation (NSF) Director France Córdova participated in the event and issued the following statement.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming every segment of American industry. It is making agriculture more precise and efficient, giving us new medical diagnostics that save lives, and ...

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Published May 10, 2018 at 05:00PM
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USAF and NSF announce partnership in science and engineering research

USAF and NSF announce partnership in science and engineering research

Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson and National Science Foundation (NSF) Director France Córdova signed a Letter of Intent May 9, 2018, creating a new partnership for collaboration on scientific and engineering research to bolster national security.

The Letter of Intent initiates a strategic partnership focused on research in four areas of common interest: space operations and geosciences, advanced material sciences, information and data sciences, and workforce and ...

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Published May 09, 2018 at 05:30PM
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Statement on Teacher Appreciation Week 2018

Statement on Teacher Appreciation Week 2018

William J. (Jim) Lewis, the acting assistant director for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), issued the following statement on Teacher Appreciation Week:

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resources want to acknowledge and celebrate the nation's science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teachers for their dedicated ...

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Published May 09, 2018 at 03:00PM
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Air Force, NSF to create research partnership to enhance national security

Air Force, NSF to create research partnership to enhance national security

Members of the media are invited to join Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson and National Science Foundation (NSF) Director France Córdova as they sign a Letter of Intent to create a new partnership for collaboration on scientific research to bolster national security.

What: Letter of Intent signing between the Air Force and NSF.

When: May 9, 2018, 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Where: The 20 F Street NW ...

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Published May 02, 2018 at 05:02PM
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Federal partners release Interagency Strategic Plan for Microbiome Research

Federal partners release Interagency Strategic Plan for Microbiome Research

A group of 23 U.S. government agencies, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), have joined to produce the Interagency Strategic Plan for Microbiome Research, which outlines the objectives, structure and principles for coordinated research in this important field of study.

The Microbiome Interagency Working Group's five-year strategic plan ...

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Published May 01, 2018 at 02:00PM
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