National Science Foundation
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The National Science Foundation, one of the most important scientific grant-making agencies in the world, would lose $4.8 billion, or 55% of its funding.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
Using a neutron detector funded through the National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation program and constructed at UT, the scientists uncovered three major findings.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
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 • Feb. 19, 2026
Prior to that, she was a paleoanthropology researcher and received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2016 for work focused on hominin bipedalism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 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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