Water. It's an essential building block of life, constantly moving in a hydrologic cycle that flows in a continuous loop above, across and even below the Earth's surface. But water is also constantly moving through another cycle --...

The impact of comets on the surface of Jupiter are a fairly common experience. At the University of Central Florida, astronomers Joseph Harrington and Csaba Palotai are leading a project that studies precisely how these impacts happen,...

Responding to the challenge of climate change requires understanding more about climate variability and the changes expected. Jim Kinter, director of the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA), explains how scientists there are...

Two parts math and one part writer make Jordan Ellenberg a very readable mathematician. Yes, Ellenberg is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard that allows him to...

Scientists and engineers installed a new component in the core of the ATLAS detector--one of two general-purpose detectors at the Large Hadron Collider. This new component, called the Insertable B-Layer, sits merely centimeters from...

What is the relationship between food, energy and water? Jack Brouwer of University of California, Irvine, answers the question on this edition of "Ask a Scientist."



The number of humans alive on our planet today is 7.6...

Ocean "dead zones" along the Washington and Oregon coasts are threatening critical U.S. fishing areas. These oxygen-depleted regions, that lose virtually all of their marine life in the summer, are expanding, and new ones are appearing...

Imagine if engineers could build a computer to be millions of times faster than anything that exists today, yet so small it's microscopic. John Preskill, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology, explains the...

A team at the University of Arkansas, Boston Mountain Biotech, explain the work they are doing to simplify protein pharmaceutical production.

Next generation wind engineering facility draws researchers from all over the country; new tools provide information to help save lives, protect property



Description: Wind engineer and 13th generation Floridian...

Four deaf or hard of hearing undergraduate interns describe their summer research project in "Polymers for Fuel Cell Technologies". Roman Nawrocki and Christopher Sloan (from Gallaudet University) and Ashley Speranza and Joshua Wilson...

James Woodenlegs first learned to communicate using Plains Indians Sign Language from his family, growing up on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana. Also known as "hand talk," the language has been used by both deaf and hearing...

Mehdi Kalantari Khandani at the University of Maryland has created a sensor system that constantly monitors different types of stresses on bridge structures and, when it detects anything unusual, alerts those who need to know.
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Telerehab, or doctor-patient consultation by phone or video, lacks a sense of touch that makes it impossible for the doctor to fully evaluate her patient’s musculoskeletal movements, says UT-Dallas computer science professor Dr....

A racecar driver is like Goldilocks: The car always seems to be too loose or too tight. Getting the right balance is hard because the weight of the fuel changes and the tires wear during each green-flag run. Understanding the science is...

These days it seems everything is going green. Now you can add green roofs to that list. A green roof is covered with a waterproof membrane, a growing medium (such as dirt) and vegetation. Environmentalists have long touted the...

A green roof can certainly make a building look nicer, but can it measurably lower energy requirements and improve water management? In this episode of Green Revolution, hear from researchers studying that question and learning how to...

New test uses brain's electrical activity to pinpoint reading challenges early, increasing chances for success in school



Description: Children who have difficulty learning to read, in addition to being at risk...

Francine Berman is Professor of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She serves on a broad spectrum of national and international leadership groups and committees, including the newly-established Research Data Alliance,...

Sabine Kastner, a professor of neuroscience and psychology at Princeton University, is studying how the brain determines what information is most important in everyday scenes. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, Kastner is able...

James Kendra, director of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, and Tricia Wachtendorf, the center's associate director, were both present in New York City in the days following 9/11. In partnership with colleagues...

When did the first stars light up the universe? After 12 years of experimental effort, a team of scientists has detected the fingerprints of the earliest stars in the universe. Find out how they did it! __For more on the discovery, see...

In this episode of NSF Science Now, we also learn about a new tool for combating mosquito-borne disease, we explore how kirigami is inspiring new materials, and finally, we discover new hydrothermal vents. Check it out!

Scientists have discovered the oldest cousin to the dinosaur!  The

creature named Teleocrater rhadinus, is a carnivorous animal living more than 245 million years ago during the Triassic Period, before dinosaurs.  Recently...