Got an idea for science and engineering research? Send it to the NSF 2026 Idea Machine

Got an idea for science and engineering research? Send it to the NSF 2026 Idea Machine

If you've ever had an idea about how the National Science Foundation (NSF) could transform fundamental research, a huge window of opportunity is about to open. From Aug. 31, 2018 through Oct. 26, 2018, the foundation will open the entry window for its first-ever NSF 2026 Idea Machine, a competition that gives entrants a chance to help inform the agenda for basic research, through the Nation's 250^th anniversary in 2026 and beyond.

NSF is looking for fresh ideas -- large in ...

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Published August 30, 2018 at 07:18PM
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NSF awards $10 million for development, dissemination of genomic tools in diverse species

NSF awards $10 million for development, dissemination of genomic tools in diverse species

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Enabling Discovery through Genomic Tools (EDGE) program has made 11 new awards, totaling approximately $10 million, to develop genomic tools that will allow biologists to identify mechanisms that determine how genes affect an organism's physical and functional characteristics.

The EDGE program helps the research community overcome the impediments that restrict progress in the biology of ...

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Published August 30, 2018 at 05:00PM
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NSF funds new projects to ‘connect dots’ (and data) to address longstanding, multi-scaled environmental problems

NSF funds new projects to ‘connect dots’ (and data) to address longstanding, multi-scaled environmental problems

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is investing $9 million in nine new projects to research biosphere processes and their complex interactions with climate, land use and invasive species at regional to continental scales. The awards are funded through NSF's MacroSystems Biology and Early NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network) Science program.

"These projects leverage NSF investments in biological infrastructure to study how organisms and ecosystems respond to environmental ...

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Published August 29, 2018 at 04:00PM
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NSF awards $60 million for next-generation supercomputer

NSF awards $60 million for next-generation supercomputer

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made a $60 million award to fund the largest and most powerful supercomputer the agency has ever supported to serve the nation's science and engineering (S&E) research community. The new high-performance computing (HPC) system, to be called Frontera, will be located at the University of Texas at Austin's (UT Austin) ...

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Published August 29, 2018 at 01:00PM
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NSF invests in research to help disrupt operations of illicit supply networks

NSF invests in research to help disrupt operations of illicit supply networks

Networks that illegally traffic in everything from people and opioids to human organs and nuclear material pose threats to U.S. health, prosperity and security. Nine new awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will advance the scientific understanding of how such illicit supply networks function -- and how to dismantle them.

The new awards support research that combines engineering with computer, physical and social sciences to address a danger that poses significant ...

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Published August 28, 2018 at 02:00PM
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Future impacts of El Niño, La Niña likely to intensify, increasing wildfire, drought risk

Future impacts of El Niño, La Niña likely to intensify, increasing wildfire, drought risk

When an El Niño or its opposite, La Niña, forms in the future, it's likely to cause more intense impacts over many land regions -- amplifying changes to temperature, precipitation and wildfire risk.

These are the findings of a new study funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy and published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

The researchers found, for example, that the ...

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Published August 28, 2018 at 02:00PM
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In drought and heavy rains, ecosystems function like information communication networks

In drought and heavy rains, ecosystems function like information communication networks

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How is a telecommunications network like an ecosystem?

Tree canopies and the running streams below, or coral reefs and the ocean waters that flow around them, are interconnected components of a larger whole: an ecosystem. These ecosystem parts are in communication with one another, scientists have learned, via signals ...

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Published August 27, 2018 at 07:00PM
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