Eureka! NSF Science Research Portal
Windows to the Universe is now highlighting breaking science news and cool multimedia from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This page provides links to some of the best materials from NSF projects spanning many different scientific topics. Listen to a podcast, watch a video clip, click your way through an interactive feature, or check out a recent news story or press release. It's a fun way to keep up to date with the latest scientific breakthroughs.
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Podcasts from the National Science Foundation feature short audio stories from the world of science. Listen to them online or download.
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Interactive Multimedia allow you to explore topics from Earth and space science in depth. |
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Videos produced by the NSF cover a broad range of scientific topics. Take a look at these short videos online to see science in action. |
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News Stories & Press Releases highlight science research that is funded by the United States National Science Foundation. |
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This very special issue of The Earth Scientist (our biggest ever!) is sponsored by the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Ocean Research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and is focused on the world’s oceans.
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Scientists have learned that Mount Hood, Oregon's tallest mountain, has erupted in the past due to the mixing of two different types of magma. Adam Kent, a geologist at Oregon State University, says this
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The Earth's mantle is a rocky, solid shell that is between the Earth's crust and the outer core. The mantle is made up of many different reservoirs that have different chemical compositions. Scientists
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Some faults look strong and like they wouldn’t cause an earthquake. But it turns out that they can slip and slide like weak faults causing earthquakes. Scientists have been looking at one of these faults
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The sun goes through cycles that last approximately 11 years. These solar cycle include phases with more magnetic activity, sunspots, and solar flares. They also include phases with less activity. The
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Studying tree rings doesn't only tell us the age of that tree. Tree rings also show what climate was like while the tree was alive. This means that tree rings can tell us about climates of the past. Two
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Earth's first life form may have developed between the layers of a chunk of mica sitting like a multilayered sandwich in primordial waters, according to a new hypothesis. The mica hypothesis, which was
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Acid rain is what happens when some types of air pollution is washed out of the sky by rain. Power plants, factories, farms, houses, and cars all put pollution into the atmosphere. Sometimes, this pollution
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