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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An independent agency of the federal government responsible for the promotion of progress in science and engineering by supporting programs in research and education
Synonyms:
National Science Foundation; NSF
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("National Science Foundation" is a kind of...):
independent agency (an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments)
Context examples:
Using the supersharp radio vision of the US National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), astronomers have made the first detection of orbital motion in a pair of supermassive black holes in a galaxy some 750 million light-years from Earth.
(First-Ever Black-Hole 'Visual Binary' Revealed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
National Science Foundation (NSF) funded this fundamental research to understand and engineer the process of how living things create bones, shells and other mineral-based tissues, said Nora Savage, a program director for NSF's sustainable manufacturing program.
(Promising new solar-powered path to hydrogen fuel production, National Science Foundation)
Just released first images from the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope reveal unprecedented detail of the sun’s surface and preview the world-class products to come from this preeminent 4-meter solar telescope.
(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)
Tracing a chemical signature of helium in seawater, an international team of scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United Kingdom's (U.K.) Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has discovered a previously unknown volcanic hotspot beneath the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS).
(Previously unsuspected volcanic activity confirmed under West Antarctic Ice Sheet at Pine Island Glacier, National Science Foundation)
Researchers at the University of Minnesota, through the National Science Foundation Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, found that a common, non-disease-causing bacterium in the environment, Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, developed rapid resistance when repeatedly exposed to nanoparticles used in making lithium ion batteries, the rechargeable batteries used in portable electronics and electric vehicles.
(Nanoparticles may have bigger impact on the environment than previously thought, National Science Foundation)
This study shows that our current carbon dioxide emission rates are influencing not only the chemistry of the Southern Ocean but its food web structure as well, says Simone Metz, program director in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences.
(Marine organisms in Southern Ocean will face shallower zone for life, National Science Foundation)
The scientists at the National Science Foundation’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detected gravitational waves dubbed GW170817 from a pair of smashing stars tied to the gamma-ray burst, encouraging astronomers to look for the aftermath of the explosion.
(NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event, NASA)
Using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope, a team of astronomers has captured for the first time an image of large-scale, coherent, magnetic fields in the halo of a faraway spiral galaxy, confirming theoretical modeling of how galaxies generate magnetic fields and potentially increasing knowledge of how galaxies form and evolve.
(Giant magnetic ropes seen in Whale Galaxy's halo, National Science Foundation)
The collision was observed Aug. 14 at 10:30:43 a.m. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) using the two National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, and the Virgo detector, funded by CNRS and INFN and located near Pisa, Italy.
(LIGO and Virgo observatories jointly detect black hole collision, National Science Foundation)
National Science Foundation (NSF) provides funding for ALMA, an astronomical interferometer of 66 radio telescopes in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.
(ALMA spots most distant dusty galaxy hidden in plain sight, National Science Foundation)
