Topic: National Science Foundation
A massive asteroid will make a rare fly-by Tuesday, and although it poses no danger of crashing to Earth, US scientists said this week they are eager for a closer look."This is not a potentially hazardous asteroid, just a good opportunity to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Science Foundation (NSF) will give researchers more workplace flexibility in a move to boost women's role in the sciences, the White House said on Monday.The NSF, the top source of federal money for many fields of basic ...
As a rocket scientist, Democratic Rep. Rush Holt has now served the 12th Congressional District of New Jersey for more than a decade. Holt recently won his seventh consecutive term during the Nov. 4, 2010, midterm elections. LiveScience took the opportunity to ...
Atlanta's huge Hartsfield-Jackson airport is one of the world's busiest; each year 82 million passengers go through it. Finding answers will require in-depth public understanding of science and technology. The Smithsonian Natural History Museum's Ocean Portal and Human Origins Web sites are ...
A third case of oseltamivir-resistant swine flu, announced last week in Hong Kong, has flu experts worried that resistance to the drug is spreading. Unlike two cases reported in Denmark and Japan, the Hong Kong patient hadn't taken oseltamivir herself. A Senate ...
To this day, the Internet has been growing for roughly 30 years, but the commercially accessible web as we know it is not yet 15 years old. Kevin Kelly, expert of digital culture and founder of Wired magazine, posits that "the rapidly ...
New research provides more evidence that ancestors of modern choanoflagellates may be the evolutionary bridge linking single-celled and multi-celled organisms. Choanoflagellares are single-celled eukaryotic cells classified as protozoans; tiny organisms that more closely resemble animals than plants. These tiny organisms are also ...
The National Science Foundation is a U.S. federal agency created to provide support for non-medical scientific research. ) The National Science Foundation has existed since 1950, and now provides research grants and opportunities from a budget of slightly less than $7 billion ...
Maize is one of the important food crops and possesses one of the well-studied and most tractable genetic systems. Even though rice has been regarded as a model reference plant for genomic studies, the enormous amount of local rearrangements have distorted the ...
This ScienceLives article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.. Mark Flanner studies cryosphere-climate processes to better understand possible effects of these dynamic interactions on the environment. Flanner, an assistant professor in University of Michigan's department of atmospheric, ...
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