The National Science Foundation is a US federal agency that funds non-medical scientific and engineering research and education nationwide.
Georgia Tech opened its Nexus AI supercomputer to researchers nationwide, with 90 percent of capacity allocated through NSF-coordinated peer review. For a lab that cannot host a machine of that size, the way in is a proposal to reviewers.
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NSF, the main US basic research funder, has issued a 10-page memo steering money toward priorities such as the $1.5bn X-Labs program. Former UK research council chief John Womersley told Times Higher Education it may embolden UK supporters of directed funding.
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Labor Department investigators have subpoenaed nine universities, Harvard and MIT among them, over J-1 visas held by foreign postdocs. The White House did not immediately source Vance's case, a 61% J-1 rate at the schools against a 38% national average.
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Ginkgo Bioworks is offering remote time on its Boston robotic lab to teams in NSF's X-Labs, a decade-long program that could invest up to $1.5 billion. The offer tests whether federally funded teams will rent a robotic wet lab before building their own.
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National Compute plans to pledge $100 million in compute credits to the Genesis Mission at Thursday's White House event, Business Insider reported. Researchers cannot schedule work against the credits until the providers, eligibility rules and start date are disclosed.
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Francis Halzen, who leads the IceCube observatory at the South Pole, won the 2026 physics Nobel for detecting high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources. The committee's citation names the observatory alongside the discovery, so the instrument in the Antarctic ice is part of what the prize honours.
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CGMNet, described in npj Computational Materials, learns from chemical fragments to predict properties of polyester, epoxy-resin and vitrimer formulations. Its authors argue fragments can carry one pretrained representation from small molecules into blends that a single repeat unit does not describe.
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Nobel physics laureate Francis Halzen said he proposed neural nets for physics data in 1991 and credits them with finally showing IceCube the Milky Way. His account links an idea he says took decades to mature to one of the Antarctic detector's best-known results.
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Oregon State chemists report a framework, BVR-19, that makes hydrogen from water in light with no added expensive metal catalyst. Without a reported rate or efficiency, its bearing on green hydrogen's roughly $5-a-kilogram price is still untested.
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Researchers from eight countries reviewed hundreds of studies and found vertebrates use insects as medicine, shelter and bait as well as food. Their Nature Reviews Biodiversity paper says studies of insect decline rarely count anything beyond lost food.
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Europe's €500 million Choose Europe for Science package is about 0.3% of the up to $177 billion in US federal grants cut. US researchers' applications to European programmes number in the hundreds, so the talent employers can count today is a small academic intake.
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Eighty percent of respondents reported at least one harmful interaction during fieldwork, and three quarters of the worst incidents went unreported. Severe violence and misconduct were excluded by design, which makes the headline figure a floor rather than a prevalence estimate.
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LSU geologists imaged the plate sinking off Vancouver Island tearing apart, with part of the slab dropped about 5 kilometres along one fault. The finding suggests subduction zones end in stages, though its bearing on future Cascadia earthquakes is stated only as a possibility.
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A five-year, $3.3 million project led at Worcester Polytechnic Institute will test whether the biology that builds sea sponge skeletons can break silicon-rich industrial waste apart gently enough to free the minerals inside.
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North Carolina State University researchers say calcium makes the protein Sfi1 go slack, tightening a fishnet of myonemes around a single-celled ciliate. They are still working out what starts the calcium signal and how the cell resets to fire again.
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Uncertainty quantification on PDE inverse problems normally costs either an adjoint solve or a large offline training set. A Nature Communications paper reports a sampler whose gradients come from a small local fine-tune instead.
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A new report combines a survey of 637 scientists with 15 million Gemini conversations. Its authors trace the gap between mathematics and biology to what it costs to check whether an answer is right.
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Ethan Secor's group sprays ink as a mist through a nozzle a robotic arm carries over non-flat surfaces, at feature sizes of 10 to 100 microns. NASA has put $150,000 behind commercialising it.
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Michigan State and the University of Hawaii are placing ocean-bottom sensors on the Alaskan-Aleutian subduction zone, where batteries and atomic clocks replace the solar panels and GPS that a land station would use, to record how the fault behaves now.
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A Frontiers Q&A says funding losses have put Dan Blumstein's yellow-bellied marmot study at risk. A marked-animal record that lapses cannot be rebuilt later, and his OnlyFans account is the response.
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