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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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Can a Camera Stream its own Destruction?
I saw this video on reddit and was suspicious it was fake. I thought if you pew pew your phone it would instantly break, so I decided to try it to for myself!
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Just a small teaser of my microwave cannon...
Lightbulb at 20'' 700w magnatron
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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,...
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Drone monitors construction site activity-NSF Science Now 43
In this week’s episode we follow a construction site drone, examine tunable window technology, learn how words are represented in the brain and finally we examine 240-million-year-old fossils.
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Ask a Scientist – Superhero Edition 4
We polled top nano experts for their nanotechnology enabled superpower of choice! In this edition, we hear from Kevin Walsh, from the University of Louisville and the Director of the NSF NNCI KY Multiscale Manufacturing and Nano...
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Ask a Scientist – Nano expert: Karen Wooley
You sent us your nano questions, and we answered! In this Ask a Scientist – Nano Edition, we join nano expert Karen Wooley, from Texas A&M University. See more nano videos and check out our Generation Nano: Small Science, Superheroes...
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Why must science be a group effort?
Why must science be a group effort? Dr. Saul Perlmutter answers your question in this special “Mysteries of the Cosmos” edition of Ask a Scientist.
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NSF GenNano Competition 2015 - 16 Finalist Nine
The third-place winner of the Generation Nano science comic competition in 2016. A little girl becomes the next victim of two notorious kidnappers. Nine, a rising superhero, takes this as an opportunity to test his new Nanosuit.This...
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High-tech Harvest: Engineering agriculture's future
What if emerging technologies for agriculture were put into practice? Researchers are engineering a sustainable balance of crops with more resilience and higher yields. They are exploring computer vision, robotics and intelligent sensor...