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How high can you Pi?
Most people can remember the 3.1415 part. It takes a real enthusiast to get into the famous constant's double digits. Simply put, pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Less simply, it is a number found in countless...
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Sociologist Duncan Watts - ScienceLives
Sociologist Duncan Watts is a leading researcher and author focusing on social networks and collective dynamics. He recently left his job as Yahoo’s principal researcher to join Microsoft’s new research lab in New York City. Although the...
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International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge
Some of science's most powerful statements are not made in words. From the diagrams of DaVinci to Rosalind Franklins x-rays, visualization of research has a long and literally illustrious history. To illustrate is to enlighten. The...
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ROV JASON
This is JASON, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s state-of- the-art Remotely Operated Vehicle. Supported by the National Science Foundation, it's equipped with sonars, video and still imaging systems and sampling capabilities. Aboard...
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Pseudo-LiDAR for self-driving cars
NSF-funded Cornell researchers have found a simpler, inexpensive alternative to the expensive LiDAR sensors currently used in self-driving cars to detect objects. The team’s new method, called pseudo-LiDAR, uses two inexpensive cameras...
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Removing radioactive waste from water 5 not-so-easy steps
Chemists at the University of Iowa, led by associate professor Tori Forbes, are using National Science Foundation funding to investigate how to remove radioactive substances from water. Forbes' team creates and tests various chemical...
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Virtual Reality Scientist - Careers in Science and Engineering
What's it really like to be an engineer or a scientist? What do they really do all day? You're about to find out! Meet the next generation of engineers and scientists in these profiles of young professionals, who may just inspire you to...
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Faster, more sensitive imaging of live cells – Biotech’s future
Developing new drugs means researchers must observe how cells react to those drugs over extended periods of time. NSF-funded small business Phi Optics has developed an optical microscope that lets scientists do just that -- study living...
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Optics that use sound to shape light for better machine vision - CES 2016
NSF-funded small business Tag Optics is developing a lens that uses sound to more rapidly bring images into focus. Tag Optics co-founder and CEO Christian Theriault explains that the lens has applications for robotics, machine vision,...
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Archaeologists uncover the remains of two Ice Age infants
A National Science Foundation-funded team of archaeologists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks had uncovered the remains of two Ice Age infants, buried more than 11,000 years ago. The discovery represents the youngest human remains...
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Game Changer Research Aims to Forecast Tornadoes - Science Nation
Tornadoes claim hundreds of lives and cause billions of dollars in damages in the United States. With support from the National Science Foundation, computer scientist Amy McGovern at the University of Oklahoma is working to find answers...
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Metal Foam - Science Nation
Afsaneh Rabiei is a materials engineer at North Carolina State University who, with support from the National Science Foundation, has developed metal foam that's lighter but much stronger than "real" metal. It's designed for use in...
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No sweat! Lightweight, wearable tech converts body heat to electricity
In episode 64, Charlie and Jordan explore wearable thermoelectric generators, or TEGs, that can efficiently convert body heat to electricity. Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new design for harvesting body...
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Environmental engineers study West Virginia chemical spill
Environmental engineers collect water samples near a chemical spill by Charleston, West Virginia for further analysis. The spill prompted officials to advise about 15 percent of the state's residents to not use the water. In the...
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Stan Lee Promotes Generation Nano Small Science, Superheroes Competition
Legendary comic book and superhero creator, Stan Lee, invites high school students to enter challenge sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
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NSF GenNano Competition 2015 - 16 Winner Nanoman
The first-place winner of the Generation Nano science comic competition in 2016. Nanoman, developed by a medical researcher, treats cancer patients by fighting Cancer, the malignant crab-monster. This comic was created by Eric Liu from...
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Light technologies mystery - with the thrilling conclusion!
Think you've solved the mystery of the professor's disappearance? Well, here's the conclusion, by popular vote! Visit NSF.gov/light to learn about the fundamental science and engineering discoveries that make these tools and future...
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Researchers Uncover Super-Massive Dinosaur in Patagonia, Argentina.
NSF-funded researchers have uncovered a 77-million year old, plant eating, super-massive Titanosaur.
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NSF Director France Cordova reflects on the anniversary of the Moon Landing
NSF Director France Cordova reflects on the anniversary of the Moon Landing and how the power to captivate the world with science inspires us to pursue other once deemed impossible moonshots—like detecting gravitational waves at NSF'S...
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Cultivating higher-quality watermelons!
Introducing wild melon genes into cultivated watermelon could result in high-quality watermelons that can grow in more diverse climates -- important as climate change increasingly challenges farmers. Bigger, crisper, sweeter melons!
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Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist Adam Riess discusses supernovae
Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist Adam Riess answers questions about his research on supernovae and his life outside the lab.
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Health care that follows you from home to hospital and back: Smart America Expo
Professor Marjorie Skubic from the University of Missouri has created a suite of health care technologies that identify when an individual falls in their home or when their physical behavior changes over time. However, how does a...
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Blurring boundaries between animate & inanimate - Science Nation
Scientists at the Bioinspired Soft Materials Center at Brandeis University are using fundamentally new approaches to study bioinspired soft materials, with the ultimate goal of developing new materials for artificial muscles,...