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Manoomin is a wild rice central to the culture and livelihoods of the Indigenous Ojibwe peoples who live in the Great Lakes area.

Boston Dynamics is known for its viral videos where its autonomous robots dance, tackle obstacle courses or decorate for the holidays.

What exactly are krill, and why are they getting attention?…

In June, a team of researchers supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation announced that they found the first evidence of the gravitational wave background that pervades the universe.

In 1989, the U.S. National Science Foundation launched the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2, and a summit "camp" was established.

In 1989, a pair of scientists posited sending swarms of robots, some as small as gnats, to explore other planets.

While we rest peacefully at night, our brains remain hard at work.

From visible starlight to radio waves, the Milky Way galaxy has long been observed through the various frequencies of electromagnetic radiation it emits.

You can't see or feel it, but everything around you — including your own body — is slowly shrinking and expanding.

It could be a scene from a Hollywood horror movie: NSF-funded researchers found a new species of living creatures — described as pale, eyeless and with nearly 500 legs — thriving in the soil under Los…