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Components the size of a few atoms, known as quantum materials, can enhance how technology functions and manages its heat. However, little is known about how heat is emitted and exchanged in quantum materials in contrast with their more common...

NSFs mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.

Invitation to Idaho EPSCoR RII Track-1 listening sessions March 12, 2021 Idaho will be eligible to submit one Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) Track-one proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) in August 2022. The Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Track-1 awards “provide up to $20 million total over five years to support research-driven improvements to jurisdictions’ physical and cyber infrastructure and human capital development in topica...

  It’s 35 degrees in the Lake Tahoe Basin and the weather calls for precipitation. Will it be rain or snow? Turns out, that is not an easy question for scientists to answer. However, scientists at the Desert Research Institute, with the help of citizen scientists, are trying to find an easier answer to that question with their ‘Tahoe Rain or Snow?’ project. Keith Jennings, a water resource scientist with Lynker Technologies is the “data guru” on the project. “In a water resources m...

Nick Carroll, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at The University of New Mexico, was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for a project that could eventually lead to smart implantable medical devices and other biomedical and technological advances. Carroll’s research — which focuses on genetically-engineered biomaterials created by the interplay of biology and polymer physics — seeks to develop synthetic cell populations that can �...

◆ A former post-doctoral fellow at the McGovern Medical School, part of the University of Texas (UT) Health Science Center, admitted to committing research misconduct by “knowingly and intentionally falsifying, fabricating, and plagiarizing data and text” in six papers and eight manuscripts, according to the HHS Office of Research Integrity (ORI). In its Feb. 4 Federal Register notice, ORI said Yibin Lin “falsely created fictitious author names and affiliations without listing himself...

Lincoln, Neb. — Scientists have long known that all living things require specific amounts of elements such as carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous to survive and thrive — it’s why we fertilize our yards and crops, for example. But the increasing frequency of phenomena such as harmful algal blooms, nitrate-contaminated water, and “dead zones” in oceans [...]

Credit American Indian Science and Engineering Society The University of Wyoming Native American Program is starting a chapter of a STEM program that focuses on providing support to native students. The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), was founded in 1977 to support Native students and their involvement in STEM programs. The Native American Resource Center wants to partner with community colleges in the state. Reniette Tendore is the UW Native American Program student ou...

UD Professor Frank Schroeder has traveled to some of the most remote locations on the planet to set up radio antennas to detect cosmic rays, which are nature’s highest-energy particles. At right, he is shown in Siberia with a research team from Germany and Russia prior to his UD career. UD physicist named Sloan Research Fellow Article by Tracey Bryant Photos courtesy of Frank Schroeder | Photo illustration by David Barczak February 16,...

February 3, 2021 The Wind River Startup Challenge, a regional entrepreneurship opportunity designed to distribute thousands of dollars to Native-owned startups, received significantly more applications from Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone entrepreneurs this year. Eight finalist teams will advance to the Final Pitch Day, currently scheduled for May. “We are encouraged to see the increase in applications and the wide variety of the business concepts this year for the Wind River Startup Ch...