3+ hour, 1+ min ago   (166+ words) Quantum materials are expanding the understanding of matter and opening new possibilities for future technologies Quantum materials already underpin technologies that people use every day. Their unusual properties enable advances in data storage, fiber-optic communications and highly sensitive magnetic field…...

4+ hour, 46+ min ago   (319+ words) Quantum sensing: From the inner workings of cells to the outer limits of the universe U.S. National Science Foundation (.gov) Quantum sensing: From the inner workings of cells to the outer limits of the universe Quantum sensors can measure physical properties…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (253+ words) Cratons extend over 100 miles into the Earth, forming a cold, rigid foundation. The research team focused on the western margin of the North American craton, where the old, thick rock meets the younger, thinner and more tectonically active sections of…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (102+ words) All NSF IT systems, including NSF.gov, may be intermittently unavailable from Tuesday, July 14 at 11 p.m. EDT to Wednesday, July 15 at 3 a.m. EDT. We apologize for any inconvenience. View a map of these NSF Engines. No single region can solve America's technology…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (525+ words) U.S. National Science Foundation (.gov) NSF Regional Innovation Engines Cohort 2 Twelve NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) are expanding technology innovation, workforce development and regional economic development across 20 states. NSF BRIDGES Engine in Alabama and Tennessee The NSF Biobased Rural Innovation…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (322+ words) | NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation U.S. National Science Foundation (.gov) NSF invests $7.5M across 5 projects to enhance K-12 mathematics learning The U.S. National Science Foundation Collaboratory to Advance Mathematics Education and Learning (CAMEL) for K-12 program, alongside philanthropic partners including the Walton Family Foundation, is investing…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (232+ words) The new "U.S. National Science Foundation Discovering Our Universe" gallery is opening to the public July 1 at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., in celebration of the museum's 50th anniversary. The gallery illuminates how the development of new, more…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (62+ words) Secure information is essential in the digital exchanges of modern life. NSF-supported professor Vinod Vaikuntanathan discusses quantum cryptography and the future of encryption. Secure information is essential in the digital exchanges of modern life. U.S. National Science Foundation-supported professor Vinod Vaikuntanathan…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (82+ words) Payam Heydari discusses a breakthrough brain-computer interface that controls a robotic exoskeleton, technology that could transform the lives of people living with spinal cord injuries... Advancements in science and technology impact the well-being of the American people. U.S. National Science Foundation-supported…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (523+ words) The U.S. National Science Foundation has selected five new teams to design experimental quantum technologies, from networks that can ferry fragile quantum information across long distances to sensors that can measure faint properties inside a single… NSF selects five additional teams…...