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How to stop phantom traffic (and save fuel) in seven easy steps!
Traffic waves occur when there are too many cars on the road. Now that autonomous vehicles are just over the horizon for consumers, a number of research activities have focused on the influence of automated vehicles on traffic flow. A...
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Waterman Award Winners 1976 - 1984
A look back at past Waterman Award winners from 1976 to 1984.
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Message from 2009 Waterman Award Winner on Discovering New Planets
David Charbonneau - 2009 Waterman Award Winner For his pioneering research into the discovery and characterization of planets orbiting other stars, which has allowed, for the first time, the study of their surface conditions and...
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Researchers create 3-D printed 'shapeshifters'
A team of National Science Foundation-funded researchers from Georgia Tech has developed a way to use 3-D printers to create objects capable of expanding dramatically. The objects could someday be used in applications ranging from space...
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Community colleges teach students unmanned aircraft skills
The National Science Foundation-funded program GeoTEd-UAS, managed by the Virginia Space Consortium and partners, is training educators to teach community college students important skills for the growing unmanned aircraft systems market...
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#NSFAstronomy On The Mall
Subhash Khot - 2010 Waterman Award Winner Subhash is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at NYU and is recognized already by many other honors and awards. Subhash is a brilliant theoretical computer scientist and is most well...
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Projections by the IPCC - How Do We Know?
Overviewing what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts some startling events and effects due to climate change.
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Sociologist Cliff Nass - ScienceLives
Robots have been making progress in the rescue and recovery arena for more than a decade, and while they have grown more capable at navigating rubble, their people skills have been lacking — a critical obstacle for assisting panicked,...
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Finding infant planets in the debris surrounding a star
New observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) contain compelling evidence that two newborn planets, each about the size of Saturn, are in orbit around a young star known as HD 163296. In studying HD...
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What is synthetic biology?
What is synthetic biology? Catherine Royer, professor of biology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, answers the question on this edition of "Ask a Scientist."
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When Nature Strikes - Volcanoes
Volcanoes are one of the most powerful natural hazards on Earth, but supervolcanoes are so large that they have the ability to alter the world's climate. Michael Manga from the University of California, Berkeley is investigating a...
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Passport to Discovery - Inside a ship's construction
Today, your Passport to Discovery is taking you behind-the-scenes in Houma, Louisiana, where a keel-laying ceremony kicked off construction on the Resolution, the latest NSF-funded research vessel designed for science on the seas. Learn...
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Coral Reef-cam: Study Shows Which Fish Clean Up Reefs
In the green buffet under the sea, some fish prefer to nibble on seaweeds that emit chemicals toxic to precious corals, making for happy corals and even happier fish. Using underwater video cameras to record fish feeding on South Pacific...
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2013 Waterman Award winner encourages innovation
Mung Chiang - 2013 Waterman Award Winner "Chiang is an electrical engineering professor of Princeton University who uses innovative mathematical analyses to design simpler and more powerful wireless networks. He is the founder of...
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What's Different This Time - How Do We Know?
If the Earth has warmed before, why be concerned now?
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Unusual Changes - How Do We Know?
What is unusual about the Earth's warming during the past century or so?
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National Science Foundation - Live Stream (3)
View, Learn, Share, this National Science Foundation webcast.
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NSF's 70th Anniversary Symposium - Part 1 (livestream version)
To begin a year-long commemoration of NSF's 70th anniversary, and 75 years since the publication of "Science - the Endless Frontier," the National Science Foundation held a two-day symposium. To view the version with the breaks removed:...
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NSF's 70th Anniversary Symposium - Part 1 (breaks removed)
To begin a year-long commemoration of NSF's 70th anniversary, and 75 years since the publication of "Science - the Endless Frontier," the National Science Foundation held a two-day symposium. This symposium spotlights the importance of...
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NSF's 66th Birthday - Selfie Contest
It's our 66th #NSFbday and we challenge you to submit a photo/selfie of yourself using stuff made possible by NSF-funded research! The "Best Of" will win a very special prize!
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High School Students - Enter the Generation Nano Challenge
Create a superhero that uses nanotechnology to solve crimes and meet today's challenges! Then share your hero’s story in a comic and video and you could win prizes! http://bit.ly/2cN5Lyr
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Nobel Prize winner Kip Thorne on LIGO's legacy
2017 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Kip Thorne comments on the cultural contributions of our era and LIGO's place in it.
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AUV SENTRY!
This is SENTRY… Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s state of the art Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. Supported by the National Science Foundation—capable of exploring the ocean and seafloor untethered to depths of 19,000 feet. With...
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Advanced Wireless Research Initiative - Live Stream
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