Hurricane season: Has anyone checked on the beach?
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season will be more active than normal. This comes after an energetic 2023 season,...
NSF invites K-12 students to design their own video games and compete for Game Maker Awards
The U.S. National Science Foundation announces the NSF Game Maker Awards "Life in 2100" competition for K-12 students. To commemorate the agency’s milestone 75th anniversary,...
The mother of all motion sensors
Sandia National Laboratories scientist Jongmin Lee, left, prepares a rubidium cold-atom cell for an atom interferometry experiment while scientists Ashok Kodigala, right, and Michael Gehl...
Studying the journey, not the destination, provides new insight into songbird migrations
New research supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation using two decades worth of data could change how scientists think about bird migrations and the...
Tuskan named DOE Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellow
“Jerry is a creative, impactful leader who is successfully stewarding a large team of scientists from multiple institutions and disciplines as head of CBI. He...
Neutrons reveal the existence of local symmetry breaking in a Weyl semimetal
The first materials scientists might have been early humans who — through trial-and-error experiments — discovered the first “cutting-edge” technologies. They found that the best...
This week with NSF Director Panchanathan
This week, NSF marked the second anniversary of the "CHIPS and Science Act of 2022," signed into law on August 9, 2022. This landmark legislation...
Sandia researcher recognized for electrification work with tribal communities
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories Senior Scientist Stan Atcitty has been honored with the A.P. Seethapathy Rural Electrification Excellence Award by the Institute of...
Radio astronomers and satellite internet provider develop new sky-sharing system
New techniques developed by the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) and SpaceX enable radio astronomy telescopes to operate without interference...
Students get hands-on learning at national labs through DOE’s 26th National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering
“Scattering is the most exciting way for me to study the materials I am making,” said NXS attendee Anya Mulligan, a graduate student at the...