NSF
1 Americanabbreviation
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At the NSF, around two-thirds of research dollars flow through small awards to individual university investigators.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
The research team plans to search through more ZTF data to locate other examples, and future observatories such as the NSF and Department of Energy's Vera C. Rubin Observatory may also uncover additional large TDEs.
From Science Daily • Nov. 7, 2025
The NSF Science and Technology Center, established in 2021, was created to explore the Antarctic ice sheet, the largest reservoir of frozen water on Earth.
From Science Daily • Nov. 5, 2025
At question during the Tuesday hearing was whether cuts to NSF grants were illegal under Lin’s June court order that blocked science funding terminations to many UC researchers throughout the nine-campus system.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2025
The American administration withdrew from its last major involvement in the Internet in April 1995, when the NSF ceased to finance some of the networks and, thus, privatised its hitherto heavy involvement in the net.
From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel
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