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.
 |
Podcasts from the National Science Foundation feature short audio stories from the world of science. Listen to them online or download.
|
|
Interactive Multimedia allow you to explore topics from Earth and space science in depth. |
 |
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. |
 |
News Stories & Press Releases highlight science research that is funded by the United States National Science Foundation. |
|
You might also be interested in:
Evolution is the process of change through time. Many things evolve. Language evolves so that English spoken four hundred years ago during the time of playwright Shakespeare was very different than English
...more
A new study has found that a mixing of two different types of magma is the key to the historic eruptions of Mount Hood, Oregon's tallest mountain, and that eruptions often happen in a relatively short
...more
Researchers have found a primitive Earth mantle reservoir on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. Geologist Matthew Jackson and his colleagues from a multi-institution collaboration report the finding--the
...more
Some geologic faults that appear strong and stable, slip and slide like weak faults. Now an international team of researchers has laboratory evidence showing why some faults that 'should not' slip are
...more
A new analysis of the unusually long solar cycle that ended in 2008 suggests that one reason for the long cycle could be a stretching of the sun's conveyor belt, a current of plasma that circulates between
...more
Anyone who has ever cut down a tree is familiar with the rings radiating out from the center of a tree trunk marking the tree's age. Careful study of tree rings can offer much more: a rich record of history
...more
Earth's first life form may have developed between the layers of a chunk of mica sitting like a multilayered sandwich in primordial waters, according to a new hypothesis. The mica hypothesis, which was
...more
