NSF Science Now

In this week’s episode we create an ice storm lab, discover gravitational-waves, track the path of chemo drugs, and finally test out new deep-sea ROV grippers for handling fragile coral and sponges.-Check it out.

In this week's episode, we examine tunable prosthetics, explore origami engineering and duck-billed dinosaurs, and discover how king crabs are migrating to the warming seas off the Antarctic Peninsula. Check it out!

In this week's episode we discover a protein that could someday eliminate malaria, learn about microbes battling it out in Antarctica, explore super Wi-Fi that uses UHF channels and virtually unwrap a 1500-year-old scroll.

In this week's episode we learn about models that simulate how a majority of Americans can eat locally grown food, how robots learn, fun and educational video games for the classroom and, finally, we explore a future forest.

In this week’s episode we learn about an app to detect sleep apnea, teen risk-taking, a new Wi-Fi booster and, finally, we explore a first-of-its-kind rehab robot.

In this week's episode we learn about: an app designed to detect depression, walking efficiency and how babies learn from being surprised. We also explore how high-tech tools are helping researchers better understand how granular materials like snow and sand behave.

In this week's episode we learn about smart bandages, magnetic organ retractors, floating wind turbines--and finally we examine how our brain remembers words.

In this week’s episode we explore the Earth’s inner-inner core, spot fires, haptic technology for touchscreens, and finally we examine the recent water contamination in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

In this week’s episode, we explore how babies learn, discover what is threatening coral reefs, see how coffee house hackers are stealing computer data and, finally, we explore our memories. Check it out!

In this week’s episode we discover a new genetic toolkit for achieving increased plant production, explore what our brain is doing when we read, discover ways of making a more reliable prosthesis, and, finally, we learn how researchers are working to better forecast the size of future earthquakes and tsunamis. Check it out!