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The U.S. National Science Foundation and partner agencies in the U.S., Canada, Finland, Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK), and the United Kingdom today announced funding awards totaling nearly $82 million in their Global Centers competition. 2024…

"On behalf of the U.S. National Science Foundation, I extend my warmest congratulations to NSB Board Member Keivan Guadalupe Stassun on receiving the prestigious MacArthur Foundation 2024 'Genius' Grant. NSF is proud to have supported Keivan…

This week, NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan met with key leaders, celebrated scientific breakthroughs and highlighted NSF's vital role in bolstering research initiatives for artificial intelligence. On Monday at NSF headquarters, Panchanathan…

The Network Coordination Hub for the National Network for Microelectronics Education will establish and operate regional nodes to offer consistent, rigorous, engaging curricula, instructional materials, experiential opportunities, teacher…

The U.S. National Science Foundation, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization of Australia (CSIRO) signed a memorandum of cooperation…

DARPA announced its new Human-AI Communications for Deontic Reasoning Devops program, or CODORD for short. Deontics, a philosophical term, refers to obligations, permissions, and prohibitions. Devops refers to the combination of software development and IT operations, including development that continues during operations.

CODORD seeks to enable communication of deontic knowledge from humans via natural language (e.g., spoken or written English, French, German, etc.) automatically into a highly expressive logical programming language. If successful, CODORD will vastly reduce the cost and time needed to transfer massive amounts of human-generated knowledge about obligations, permissions, and prohibitions into logical languages that an AI can understand and reason rigorously with to provide decision support.

The U.S. National Science Foundation is providing half of $15 million in funding to establish the new Center for Advancing Elementary Science through Assessment, Research, and Technology (CAESART) to address the nationwide availability of high…

In a new study, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation-supported researchers suggests that 4 billion years ago, plate tectonics likely looked closer to what we experience today than previously thought. The team published its findings in the…

From DARPA's pioneering work with Other Transactions, to fast-pitch proposals, to the exploration of previously unrealized authorities, hear how the agency is breaking down the barriers of government contracting, providing companies a clearer path to the national security mission.

In the U.S., just over 21% of the undergraduate student body identified as Hispanic in 2021. Nearly 63% of those students were enrolled at Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs).* Despite representing only a small portion of the nation's public and…

The dietary preferences of bacteria that eat organic molecules called lipids can affect how carbon dioxide from the ocean's surface moves to the deep ocean, where it can be sequestered away for hundreds of years, potentially affecting future climate…

The newly updated U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) University of Wyoming (UW) King Air Research Aircraft (King Air) is set to fly its first research mission in the summer of 2025. The university is hosting an open house on Sept. 24 to celebrate…

This week, NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan engaged in discussions and announcements that underscored the agency's commitment to advancing research, innovation and global collaboration. On September 18, NSF announced two new National Artificial…

The U.S. National Science Foundation announced an inaugural investment of more than $18 million to 44 multidisciplinary, multi-sector teams across the U.S. through the NSF Responsible Design, Development and Deployment of Technologies (NSF ReDDDoT)…

Building off the success of the program Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (RACE), which recently released its code on GitHub, PWND2 will develop formal models of emergent communication pathways (AKA weird networks) to fundamentally improve the deployment and detection of robust and resilient hidden networks.

Atmospheric rivers cross the planet. These large, narrow sections of Earth's atmosphere carry moisture from the tropics to the poles. A recently published paper in Nature Communications discovered that low-frequency, large-scale circulation changes…

DARPA, the Canadian Department of National Defence, and the U.K. Ministry of Defence will collaboratively pursue research, development, test, and evaluation technologies for artificial intelligence (AI), cyber, resilient systems, and information domain-related technologies.

A team of researchers supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation has developed a new method of tracking the ultra-fast heat progression in warm, dense matter plasmas — the type of matter created when metals are struck with high-powered lasers…

The U.S. National Science Foundation is making awards of $48M to the NSF Broadening Participation in Computing Alliances (NSF BPC Alliances), which seek to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in computer and information science and…

From the early telescopes made hundreds of years ago by Galileo to the sophisticated astronomical observatories of today, people have built increasingly innovative tools to probe and measure the cosmos. Soon, researchers at two new institutes funded…