A small army of 100 scientists and 40 sophisticated vehicles and unmanned aircraft are set to storm the Midwest chasing tornadoes looking to get a better understanding of the dangerous storms and help forecasters predict the destructive events.
They are taking two radically different approaches but NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) are prepping to significantly alter the way scientists explore space.
Some math problems are as old as the wind, experts say and many remain truly unsolved. But a new open source-based site from the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) looks to help track work done and solve long-standing and difficult math problems.
Swarms of robots will soon be scooting across the ocean floor looking to monitor everything from protected marine areas and fish migration patterns to a variety of other biological activities.
Looking to help better understand how space weather affects a variety of everyday consumer technologies including global positioning systems (GPS), satellites for television reception, and cellular phones, researchers at Virginia Tech's Space@VT research group got a $2 million grant to build a chain...
University scientists have captured a picture of huge blasts of lightning known as gigantic jets that can shoot upwards over 40 miles from thunderstorms. Video showing the gigantic jet.
The National Science Foundation today said it was looking for a few good applications to run on its 200,000 processor core supercomputer known as Blue Waters once it comes online in 2011. The Blue Waters petascale supercomputer you may recall got the green light last summer as the University of Illinois...
The deep study and analysis of the vast amounts of online data continues to pick up steam. This week four research agencies teamed to develop an international competition they hope will heat up humanities and social science research using large-scale data analysis to develop international partnerships...
The National Science Foundation is furthering its search for highly interpretive technology to help all manner of government and private researchers evaluate the massive amounts of data generated in health care, computational biology, security and other fields.
The National Science Foundation is looking for a few good artificial intelligence revolutionaries. The agency today updated its call for new research to advance and integrate research of artificial intelligence, computer vision, human language research, robotics, machine learning, computational neuroscience,...
Researchers looking to improve the prospects for long-distance quantum networks set a speed record for the time quantum data needed to be storied and retrieved. The new record - 7 milliseconds for rubidium atoms stored in a system known as a dipole optical trap - smashed the old record of 32 microseconds,...
Researchers are using a satellite the size of a loaf of bread to study a high-altitude lightning-like phenomena that may go a long way toward improving scientific understanding of radiation belts, solar flares, cosmic shocks, and other planets, as well as dust devils and dust storms on Mars.
Small, inexpensive cube-shaped satellites could be all the space rage if researchers have their way. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a grant to SRI International to tackle the first mission of the tiny flying quadrangles known as CubeSats. CubeSats are tiny satellites with dimensions...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), today funded a $6 million, three year program that will focus on building low-power, high function multicore chips for servers, networking equipment and other key computer systems.
The 200,000 processor core system known as Blue Waters got the green light recently as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) said it has finalized the contract with IBM to build the world's first sustained petascale computational...
Earlier this year the National Science Foundation announced 14 Grand Engineering Challenges for the 21st century that, if met, would greatly improve our world. One of the key challenges-and the one that currently ranks as #1 (see below) - is making solar energy efficient and economical. That's where...
The National Science Foundation today said federal funding of academic science and engineering research and development failed to outpace inflation for the second year in a row, an unprecedented event in the 35 years it has been tracking such investments. The decrease, while small, only adds fuel to...
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