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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Representatives from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) worked together
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The health of coral reef ecosystems is endangered by many different forces – warming seas, carbon dioxide, diseases, fishing, and pollution to name a few. Can reefs recover once they become unhealthy?
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Some scientists are looking for methods that will help cool the Earth and cancel out global warming. But a new study says that one of these methods would have a huge impact on the Earth's protective ozone
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With the help of some powerful telescopes, a team of scientists has been spying on a black hole at the center of a galaxy that is 950 million light years from Earth. This is not just any black hole. This
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Two stars, each with the same mass and in orbit around each other, are twins that one would expect to be identical. So astronomers were surprised when they discovered that twin stars in the Orion Nebula
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Geologists have learned that a magnitude-8.1 earthquake and tsunami that killed 192 people on September 29, 2009 in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga was in fact a triple-whammy. The 8.1 "great earthquake"
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Scientists are using what they know about ocean circulation and the past climates in the Arctic region to predict the future impacts of climate change. They think if the changes that are currently happening
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