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A light-conducting silica nanowire wraps
a
beam of light around a strand of human
hair. The nanowires are flexible and can be
as slender as 50 nanometers in width, about
one-thousandth the width of a hair. Credit: Limin Tong/Harvard University |
December 19, 2003 Highlights
Researchers Develop Nanoscale Fibers that are Thinner than the
Wavelengths of Light they Carry
Stable Isotope Data Provide Evidence for Huge Global Methane Release
about 600 Million Years Ago
Researchers Engineer Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells to Form Sperm
Cell Precursors
Detecting Terrorists and Other Hidden Groups on the Internet
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December 4, 2003 Highlights
Top Scientists Conclude Human
Activity Is Affecting Global Climate
New Fossils from Ethiopia
Open a Window on Africa's "Missing Years"
Taking Cues from Mother Nature
to Foil Cyber Attacks
Now Available:FY2004 Guide to Programs
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October 24, 2003 Highlights
President Names Eight Elite Scientists and Engineers to Receive
National Medals of Science
NSF Grantees Awarded 2003 Nobel Prizes in
Economics, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine
NSF Awards $219 Million Over Five Years for Earthscope Project:
Far-Reaching Geosciences Effort to Understand the North
American Continent Nanoscale Iron Could Help Cleanse the Environment
NSF Grants Establish New Centers For Learning and Teaching at
Missouri, Rutgers, Berkeley
Discover the Physical World Through the National Science Digital Library
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October 3, 2003 Highlights
NSF Sponsors Public Symposium on Astronomy
NSF Announces Three Awards to Extend the Reach of the
Terascale Facility
NSF'S 'FIBR' to Mix Disciplines, Use Breakthroughs on 5-Year
Explorations
into Biology's Mysteries
Liberty Bell Web Portal Unites History and Technology
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Mongolian Frost Rings
Image courtesy: Dee Breger, LDEO; sample courtesy of G. Jacoby. |
September 12, 2003 Highlights
NSF, Science Name Winners of Inaugural International Science & Engineering
Visualization Challenge
Baboon Fathers Really Do Care About Their Kids
Nanoscale Iron Could Help Cleanse the Environment
NSF Publishes Unique Learning Resource in Time for New School Year
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August 22, 2003 Highlights
September 11, 2003 - Patriot Day
Atmospheric Science Goes to Ground: Researchers Present New
Findings on the Natural Hydrogen Cycle
Genome Sequence for Tomato-Infecting Microbe May
Show How Bacteria Adapt to Plant Defenses
Microbe from Depths Takes Life to Hottest Known Limit
New Report Identifies Grand Research Challenges
for Information Systems
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Spectacular, long-lived Lost City vents, showing accretion of vent-building carbonate.
Credit: National Science Foundation, with cooperation from the University of Washington |
July 28, 2003 Highlights
Hydrothermal Vent Systems Could Have Persisted for Millions
of Years, Incubated Early Life
Self-Assembling Devices at the Nanoscale
Scientists Discover Planetary System Similar to Our Own
Biodiversity's Response to Ecosystem Productivity Depends on
Historical Plant and Animal Relationships
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Photos of high-throughput reactor showing A) reactor with common headspace top plate (used for catalyst reduction) and B) reactor with isolated headspace plate (used for reaction and gas chromatograph analysis).
Credit: G. W. Huber, J. W. Shabaker, and J. A. Dumesic, University of Wisconsin-Madison; NSF, DOE |
June 30, 2003 Highlights
New Catalyst Paves Way for Cheap, Renewable Hydrogen
Behavior of Arctic Ocean Ridge Confounds Predictions;
May Lead to New Insights into Crust Foundation
For Ferrets, GPI Means 'Get Pregnancy Initiated'
Draft FY2003-2008 GPRA Strategic Plan Available
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June 11, 2003 Highlights
Earliest Homo Sapiens Fossils Discovered in Ethiopia
Going with the Grain: A Tale of Rice's Smallest Chromosone
New Results Force Scientists to Rethink Single-Molecule Wires
Draft FY2003-2008 GPRA Strategic Plan Available
NSB Seeks Comments on Draft Report on National Workforce Policies
for Science and Engineering
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Neurospora asci. The asci are from a cross of histone
H1-GFP x wild type. Four of the eight ascospores in each ascus show
glowing hH1-GFP nuclei. The remaining four ascospores contain non-glowing
wild type nuclei.
Photo Credit: Dr. Namboori B. Raju of Stanford University |
May 6, 2003 Highlights
Bread Mold Yields a Genome First for Filamentous Fungi
NSF Director Names 2003's Distinguished Teaching Scholars
Game Theorist Sandler Describes Unintended Consequences of U.S. Counter-Terrorism Policies
Mosaic Web Browser Celebrates 10th Birthday
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Artistic rendering of the theropod dinosaur Majungatholus
atopus feeding from the remains of a conspecific.
Artwork by Demetrios M. Vital |
April 4, 2003 Highlights
Dinosaur Cannibal Unearthed in Madagascar
Liberty Bell Passes Stress Test
Forest Fragmentation May Increase Lyme Disease Risk
Researchers Spy Stellar Bull's Eye; Dramatic images reveal unique star explosion
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A rendered image of the protein shell that surrounds monkey cancer virus Simian Virus SV40 (the image is based on cryo-electronmicroscopy data).
Image Credit: Image is from VIrus Particle ExploreR (VIPER) |
March 18, 2003 Highlights
Crystals on a Ball: Researchers attack 100-year-old puzzle, learn how
a
single layer of particles can pack on the surface
of a sphere
of "immediate national importance"
Educating for the Future: NSF Joins in ESTME Week Celebration
White House Announces Nation's Top Science, Engineering,
Mathematics Mentors
With Toxic Crystals, Bacterium Targets -- and Takes
out -- Nematodes
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3-D structure of a conical dendron (top), 12 of
which self-assemble into an 8,500-atom spherical dendrimer, shown
in simplified form constructed from cones (middle) and in its detailed
schematic structure (bottom). Photo Credit: Virgil Percec, University
of Pennsylvania |
February 24, 2003 Highlights
New Molecular Self-Assembly Technique May Mimic How Cells Assemble Themselves
NSF-Supported Researcher William R. Hammer to Lecture on Jurassic Dinosaurs
from Antarctica; NSF Will Webcast Live
Researchers Will No Longer Be "Snowed" in Predicting Future
Avalanches; Study
of variations in snow stability over geography and time are key, scientists
say
NSF,
Science Journal Announce Science Visualization Contest
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February 3, 2003 Highlights
NSF Seeks 2004 Budget of $5.48 Billion; Increase will address priorities
of "immediate national importance"
NSF Director Rita Colwell Calls on the Science Community to Engage in
the Policy Debate over Scientific Freedom and National Security
Earth Scientists Forge New Understanding of Mountain-Building Dynamics
Revelations in the Ice: Shackleton's Legacy, Antarctica Today
NSF Joins the NASA Family in Sorrow
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Ken Dial, who is a professor of vertebrate morphology
and a licensed commercial pilot, holds an adult chukar partridge in
his flight lab at the University of Montana
Photo Credit: K.P. Dial, University of Montana |
January 15, 2003 Highlights
New Study Suggests Missing Link that Explains How Dinosaurs Learned to
Fly
Commerce Secretary, President's Science Advisor to Keynote Conference
on Economic and Social Implications of Information
Technology
NSF Workshop Highlights Future of Organic Electronics and Photonics
Researchers Tie Worldwide Biodiversity Threats to Growth in Households
NSF Advisory Committee on Environmental Research and Education
Releases New Report
Scientists Find First Active 'Jumping Genes' in Rice
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January 6, 2003 Highlights
Genomes, Cosmos, and Nano Among NSF Science Highlights from 2002
Breakthrough Brings Laser Light to New Regions of the Spectrum
Spider vs. Fly: Specialized Deception, Attack and Defense Rule the Conflict
Public Comment Sought on Draft Infrastructure Report
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