NSF: year of discovery and innovation

Advances in autonomous vehicles, or AVs, are bringing driverless cars closer to public use. But the number of drivers in the U.S.

Across the developing world, daily cooking responsibilities are largely held by women and girls who cook — often indoors — on open fires fueled by organic matter like wood or dung.

That magnet on your refrigerator? Let's supersize it. Imagine it's 1 million times more powerful than Earth's magnetic field and as heavy as a small herd of elephants.

The quantum future is on our doorstep — and the U.S. National Science Foundation is helping to bring it home.

The U.S. National Science Foundation supports multiple programs for high school, undergraduate and post-baccalaureate students to help fund research opportunities.

Congress passed the bipartisan “CHIPS and Science Act,” a watershed moment for U.S. innovation and industry. It unlocks investments in U.S.

In the U.S., more people are learning to read, write and speak in a new language using the app Duolingo.

Every picture tells a story. Each portrait in the gallery of directors at the U.S. National Science Foundation headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, is a chapter in the U.S.

Because breathing is generally involuntary, we sometimes forget how complicated it is.

When high school students think about producing hip-hop tracks, many of them also understand the importance of learning to code.