National Science Foundation

Type: Organization

Name: National Science Foundation

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 39 mins ago - 3 reports

New smart fabric mimics the way skin perspires

Biomedical engineers say their textile microfluidic platform is water repellent and scalable.Researchers turned to the human skin for inspiration behind new moisture-wicking fabric.(Credit: Vox Efx/Flickr)Biomedical engineers are unveiling a new type ... [Published CNET News - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Surface Tension, University of California Davis, National Science Foundation, Manufacturing Process, Substrate

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Washington State University

'Redshirt' Programs Could Help Generate More Engineers

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> If the United States is to produce more engineering grads, universities will need to adopt creative approaches to recruit and retain students in engineering programs . Here’s one some universities are ... [Published IEEE Spectrum - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Washington State University, University of Washington, University of Colorado at Boulder, Retention Rate

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Manufacturing

The future of nanotechnology: Bringing more research to market

EVENT: In an effort to bridge the gap between university research and industry needs and to bring more nanotechnologies to market, more than 150 researchers and manufacturers will attend a workshop on nano- and micro-scale manufacturing. The goal is to ... [Published University of Michigan - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Nanotechnology, Manufacturing, Andrew Oliver, Precision Manufacturing, Michigan Economic Development Corp

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

Senior execs' bonuses under fire at agencies

New details of just how troubled the management of the General Services Administration was between 2009 and 2011 are emerging. GSA's inspector general and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) released separate, but related, reports that show the agency abused ... [Published Federal News Radio 1500 AM - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Claire McCaskill, Brian Miller, National Science Foundation

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

Geochemist aids development of geologic time scale for study of Earth's history

Geochemist Mark Schmitz is one of four editors on The Geologic Time Scale 2012, or GTS2012, a 1,144-page compilation of the latest understanding of Earth's history, and the means by which geoscientists around the world investigate the rock record. In ... [Published Science Daily - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Geologic Time, Isotope, Geochronology, National Science Foundation, Boise City (Idaho, United States)

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

National Science Foundation

Sequestration is imperiling scientific research — and economic growth

The multi-touch interface familiar to smartphone and tablet users actually originated from University of Delaware scientists whose work was initially supported by the National Science Foundation.Congress’ recent action to allow the Federal Aviation Administration ... [Published MinnPost - 9 hours ago]

Entities: National Science Foundation, Sequestration, Economic Growth

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

UW's new $239M underwater lab: big opportunities and challenges

Scientists are eager for access to information from a quarter-billion dollar lab at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that they hope will teach them about climate change, earthquakes and even the origins of life on Earth and other planets.The $239 million ... [Published DJC.com - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Hugo Swire, National Science Foundation, Pacific Ocean, Volcano

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

UW professor finds success with crowdfunding

Dan Jaffe -Dan Jaffe stands in his lab at UW Bothell. Using the crowdfunding platform Microryza, Jaffe and his team raised about $20,000 to aid their coal train research, a success he felt was largely due to the local awareness of train emission dang ... [Published UW Daily Online - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Atmospheric Sciences, Coal, National Science Foundation, environmental impact

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

Soft Matter Offers Ways to Study Arrangement of Ordered Materials in Non-spherical Spaces

A fried breakfast food popular in Spain provided the inspiration for the development of doughnut-shaped droplets that may provide scientists with a new approach for studying fundamental issues in physics, mathematics and materials.The doughnut-shaped ... [Published Noodls - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Torus, Georgia Institute of Technology, Surface Tension

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

Clemson professor receives CAREER Award from National Science Foundation

CLEMSON — Jeffrey Anker, assistant professor of analytical chemistry at Clemson University, received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for his work on high-resolution spectrochemical imaging through tissue.The CAREER Award is the National ... [Published Clemson University - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Clemson University, National Science Foundation, Chemical, Materials Science

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Wine and climate change

A climate change workshop relevant to the wine industry is coming to Blenheim.It will be led by Meredith Niles, a PhD student of ecology at the University of California and a US National Science Foundation Fellow, who will interpret the results of a farmer ... [Published Marlborough Express - May 20 2013]

Entities: Global Warming/Climate Change, US National, National Science Foundation, University of California

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

New lab to give scientists underwater access

SEATTLE Scientists around the world will soon have access to a wealth of data from a lab at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.The National Science Foundation is paying the University of Washington to put laboratory equipment as deep as 2 miles below the ... [Published Tacoma News Tribune - May 19 2013]

Entities: Volcano, Ocean Acidification, Microbe, National Science Foundation, University of Washington

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...The Shepard group continues to find ways to speed up these single-molecule measurements. "In some cases," he adds, "we may be able to speed things up to be a million times faster than current techniques."

Researchers Perform Fastest Measurements Ever Made of Ion Channel Proteins [Published Brightsurf Science News - 42 mins ago]

In advice to this year's participants, 2012 winner Mathew Cooper cautioned against viewing the competition as a one-time exercise, "We live in a world that is increasingly visual. We get our content online… As scientists, if you can encapsulate your project and results into a 3-minute video that's accessible to a broader community, to funding agencies, and people that need to see your results—that's a tool that will take you a long way in your career."

Graduate Students Embrace Video to Foster Public Understanding of Science [Published Sys-Con Belgium - 55 mins ago]

Morality patrols enforced proper dress codes and monitored what people ate. Spies reported "seditious" or "sacrilegious comments. The militants also banned music."

Paul Stoller: The Social Life of Music -- in Mali [Published Huffington Post - 58 mins ago]

...be continuously and uniformly varied all the way down to a single atomic layer of graphene - the ultimate "surface" of the film," Balandin said. "Thus, we were able to accomplish with multilayer graphene films something that researchers could not do with metal films in the last century. We probed the origin of 1/f noise directly."

Graphene Aids in Studying 1/f Noise Origins [Published Power Electronics News - 1 hour ago]

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