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News From the National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) — For more information about NSF and its programs, visit www.nsf.gov
NSF News
- 3-Jul-2008 - In unique stellar laboratory, Einstein's theory passes strict, new test
- National Science Foundation
- 3-Jul-2008 - Radicals shake up molecules in a tug o' war
- National Science Foundation
- 3-Jul-2008 - Species have come and gone at different rates than previously believed
- National Science Foundation
- 2-Jul-2008 - NSF signs Memorandum of Understanding with Department of Defense for national security research
- National Science Foundation
NSF Funded Research News
- 3-Jul-2008 - Geologists push back date basins formed, supporting frozen Earth theory
- University of Florida
- 3-Jul-2008 - Nature reserves attract humans, but at a cost to biodiversity
- University of California - Berkeley
- 3-Jul-2008 - Unique stellar system gives Einstein a thumbs-up
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory
- 3-Jul-2008 - Ancient marine invertebrate diversity less explosive than thought
- Penn State
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NSF and the Birth of the Internet |
| The Internet is now a part of modern life, but how was it created? Learn how the technology behind the Internet was created and how NSFNET, a network created to help university researchers in the 1980s, grew to become the Internet we know today. |
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X-treme Microbes |
| They're called 'extremophiles' because they're able to live in shocking extremes of cold, heat, pressure, acidity and more. Research on these strange organisms is redefining the limits of life on Earth and, perhaps, on other worlds. |
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U.S. South Pole Station |
| In the most forbidding environment on Earth, NSF has created a uniquely designed high-tech haven to support research and to house the scientists and others who keep the effort going year-round. NAGC Winner |
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