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National Science Foundation

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noun

U.S. Government.
  1. 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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The remaining disputes in the case involve the National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Institutes of Health and the Departments of Defense, Transportation and Energy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The research was supported by the National Science Foundation under award No. 2241605.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

The work was performed in part at the Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems, a member of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, which is supported by National Science Foundation award No. ECS-0335765.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

The work was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

The largest semi-steerable radio/radar observatory on the planet Earth is the Arecibo facility, which Cornell University operates for the National Science Foundation.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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