NSF Funded Research News
Updates every hour. Last Updated: 18-Nov-2025 16:11 ET (18-Nov-2025 21:11 GMT/UTC)
18-Nov-2025
Engineers work to recruit students, narrow US talent gap in semiconductor workforce
Iowa State University
A team of Iowa State researchers is establishing a year-long program to recruit and train students for the semiconductor industry. It's all about giving students a head start on a semiconductor career and building a U.S. chip workforce.
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- U.S. National Science Foundation
18-Nov-2025
Cabernet sauvignon’s long memory revealed
University of California - DavisPeer-Reviewed Publication
UC Davis scientists find chemical "switches" that control gene expression in cabernet sauvignon remain stable across hundreds of years of clonal reproduction.
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- Genome Biology
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- U.S. National Science Foundation, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, E. & J. Gallo Winery, Ray Rossi Endowment
18-Nov-2025
Built by science for science
University of Texas at Austin
Horizon, the largest U.S. open-science supercomputer arriving in 2026, is being designed around the Characteristic Science Applications program: 11 cutting-edge software projects tackling the scientific challenges that will define the facility’s future.
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- Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
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- U.S. National Science Foundation
17-Nov-2025
Through the wires: Technology developed by FAMU-FSU College of Engineering faculty mitigates flaws in superconducting wires
Florida State UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
Through a partnership with industry, researchers at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and Florida State University’s Center for Advanced Power Systems and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have supported the development of a design that uses multiple strands of superconducting tape to create a cable, minimizing the chance of failure from defective spots within a wire.
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- Superconductor Science and Technology
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- U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy
17-Nov-2025
Social media sentiment can predict when people move during crises, improving humanitarian response
University of Notre DamePeer-Reviewed Publication
A new study co-authored by University of Notre Dame researcher Helge-Johannes Marahrens shows that analyzing social media posts can help experts predict when people will move during crises, supporting faster and more effective humanitarian aid delivery. Marahrens, assistant professor of computational social science in Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, said that this research highlights how powerful computational tools can help address major global challenges to human dignity.
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- EPJ Data Science
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- U.S. National Science Foundation, Georgetown University’s Massive Data Institute
17-Nov-2025
Monitoring hidden processes beneath Kīlauea could aid eruption forecast
University of Hawaii at ManoaPeer-Reviewed Publication
A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa revealed Kīlauea’s magma system started behaving anomalously about a year before the massive 2018 eruption began. This discovery, made using a unique seismic monitoring method, suggests that tracking these hidden processes could aid eruption prediction and volcanic hazard mitigation.
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- AGU Advances
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- U.S. National Science Foundation
17-Nov-2025
From artificial organs to advanced batteries: A breakthrough 3D-printable polymer
University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied SciencePeer-Reviewed Publication
A new material developed at UVA could lead to breakthroughs in transplant treatments, drug delivery systems, even battery storage.
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- Advanced Materials
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- U.S. National Science Foundation, NIH/National Institutes of Health, UVA LaunchPad for Diabetes, Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation
17-Nov-2025
New study identifies part of brain animals use to make inferences
New York UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
A team of NYU researchers identified a particular part of the brain that serves as an “inference engine.” The region, the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), allows animals to update their understanding of their surroundings based on changing circumstances.
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- Neuron
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- NIH/National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Science Foundation, DOE/US Department of Energy
17-Nov-2025
Researchers unveil first-ever defense against cryptanalytic attacks on AI
North Carolina State UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
Security researchers have developed the first functional defense mechanism capable of protecting against “cryptanalytic” attacks used to “steal” the model parameters that define how an AI system works.
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- U.S. National Science Foundation
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- Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems