National Science Foundation

American

noun

U.S. Government.

an independent agency of the executive branch, created in 1950, that promotes and supports research and education in the sciences. NSF

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Support for the work was provided by the Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center through the National Science Foundation.

From Science Daily

The study, "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly," was supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

From Science Daily

Pavlick leads ARIA, a National Science Foundation AI research institute at Brown focused on building trustworthy AI assistants.

From Science Daily

National Science Foundation and researchers around the world to advance the exploration of the universe.

From Los Angeles Times

A spokesman for the National Science Foundation said the University of Wyoming has been invited to submit a proposal to operate the supercomputer; the college said it is interested.

From The Wall Street Journal

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