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Economist Donna Ginther ScienceLives
Having children forced Professor Donna Ginther to better focus on her work and to budget time wisely. It also gave the University of Kansas economics researcher first-hand experience with being a mother in a rigorous, mostly male,...
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Climate Models - How Do We Know?
How are climate models on climate change being improved?
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City Car - Green Revolution
A clean car that you can stack like a shopping cart? That customizes everything from its color to the radio the instant you step in? That you can always find a parking space for? Too good to be true? Nope, it's just one of the brilliant...
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Cheetah's are specialized hunters! NSF Science Now 56
In this week’s episode, we learn what makes cheetah’s specialized hunters; new ways of remotely sensing water trends, and finally, we examine fruit bat sonar. Check it out!
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Computer scientist Anthony Joseph - ScienceLives
The Cold War may be over, but silent dangers still lurk in cyber space. With increasing amounts of sensitive personal information — social security numbers, financial data, stock transactions — finding its way onto computing networks,...
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Potato cannon powered glider!
My friend & I collaborated in Dropbox Paper to build a collapsible glider for a potato cannon!
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DIY MEGA Microwave! - Microwaving a Microwave
DIY MEGA Microwave! - Microwaving a Microwave
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4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About This Week Episode 19
The whole tooth and nothing but the tooth, slipping into something solar, wet and dry disease, and mucus modifications to save lives The Whole Tooth The Whole Tooth: New Method to Find Biological Sex From a Single Tooth UC Davis, USAFA,...
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Passport to Discovery - Listening to the Universe’s Whispers
Today, your Passport to Discovery takes you to Green Bank, West Virginia, home to the Green Bank Observatory. This observatory studies radio transmissions from space and boasts the largest movable object on land! What could it be? Come...
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Singing in the brain - Finding Your Science
Neuroscientist Nina Kraus talks about how the brain hears music. Visit the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory homepage at www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu to learn more about this fascinating research. Finding Your Science engages the...
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Shoe-based tech helps amputees get extra mileage out of physical therapy - CES 2015
It looks like Fitbit for feet, but it’s actually Google for gait, according to Stacy Bamberg, CEO and founder of Veristride. Veristride, a small business funded by NSF’s SBIR/STTR program, is developing tools to help amputees rehab...
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See the SHELTER device in action.
Learn how the SHELTER (TM) device works and see it in action, removing a gummi bear "clot" from a model of blood vessels in the brain.
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Tiny toad offers big potential for research on plasticity
Spadefoot toads fooled biologists for years, and now the species offers new insights on adaptive evolution Spadefoot toads are master "shape-shifters," able to make drastic changes to their form and behavior in response to their...
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New dinosaur species sheds light on the beginnings of birds and dinosaurs
Through an expedition to the Gobi Desert of China, scientists have solved the puzzle of how one group of dinosaurs came to look like birds--independent of birds. The discovery extends the fossil record of the family Alvarezsauridae--a...
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Happy Birthday NSF!
For more than six decades, the National Science Foundation has funded science and engineering research that has led to discoveries and innovations that transformed our world. In episode 53, Charlie and Jordan celebrate by picking a few...
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Turtle GPS - Science Nation
Sea turtles, salmon, and sharks sometimes travel the width of the ocean to return to their, "breeding ground," to reproduce. With funding from the National Science Foundation, Biologist Ken Lohmann at the University of North Carolina -...
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Tragedy of the Commons Part 2 - Chalk Talk
Are there any solutions to The Tragedy of the Commons? What happens when many people seek to share the same, limited resource? This animated series of short videos acts as a video glossary to define specific scientific terms or concepts...
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Safepay
For the first time, researchers have developed an inexpensive, secure method to prevent mass credit card fraud using existing magnetic card readers. The novel technique--called SafePay--works by transforming disposable credit card...
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Physicist Nergis Mavalava - ScienceLives
Ever curious, Nergis Mavalava knew from a young age that she wanted a career that involved math and science. As a physics professor at MIT, she studies gravitational waves using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory...
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New sensors to monitor storm surge on bridges
A University of Florida team is starting to gather real-time data on the impact of waves and rising water on bridges during hurricanes. Unlike studies that rely on tests in wave laboratories, this research will use data transmitted...
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IoT sensor to reduce emissions – K&A Wireless
K&A Wireless, a small business funded by the National Science Foundation, manufactures an internet-of-things (IoT) emissions sensor that is placed in a vehicle’s exhaust pipe. Globally, 80 percent of pollution comes from the...
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4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About - Episode 36
High five… and a half, snakehead stroll, designer meat, and capturing the symphony of life Article Titles/Links, Credited Institutions & Directorate: Gimme six! Researchers discover aye-aye’s extra finger...
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What impact does government funded basic research have on the economy?
What impact does NSF-funded basic research have on the economy? Lara Philips Schroeder, founder and CEO of Spheryx Inc., answers in Ask a Scientist. Spheryx is supported by America’s Seed Fund powered by the National Science Foundation,...
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Obstetrics and gynecology professor Teresa K. Woodruff - ScienceLives
Obstetrics and gynecology professor Teresa K. Woodruff - ScienceLives