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“The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…tasked with keeping the United States at the leading edge of discovery in areas from astronomy to geology to zoology. So, in addition to funding research in the traditional academic areas, the agency also supports high-risk, high pay-off ideas, novel collaborations and numerous projects that may seem like science fiction today, but are the future of tomorrow.”At the NSF website, explore the Discoveries section, where a panopoly of innovations are featured: the Internet, robots, artificial heart valves, frozen frogs, extrasolar planets, memory, data mining, and more.Visit the News area to get the latest breakthroughs in science and to check out the multimedia gallery, which contains audio clips, video files, and interactive features spotlighting fascinating looks at a robonurse, an artificial retina, an Internet telescope, human and dolphin brain size, and atomic bonding--just to name a few!Browse this website by NSF research areas:
- Arctic & Antarctic
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- Computing
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- Mathematics
- Nanoscience
- People & Society
- Physics
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