National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues
Wired
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.
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Iconic Arecibo Observatory crumples after cable and structural failures
TechSpot
DECEMBER 1, 2020
Last month, the National Science Foundation decided there was no safe way to repair Arecibo's support cables, which failed in August and again in November. The NSF determined it would be safer to take down the facility in a controlled demolition. However, before it could even schedule the decommission, the.
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High-speed internet could be coming to Antarctica
The Verge
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
Run by the US National Science Foundation, the station sees up to 1,000 visitors in the Antarctic summer from October to February, who travel here to conduct research on topics ranging from climate to ocean science. National Science Foundation. After that, NSF will decide whether to proceed with the project.
Minerva Lithium uses absorbent material to change the way we extract lithium
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Before Minerva was officially founded, Dawood and Rathnayake took part in a National Science Foundation (NSF) program designed to help universities with entrepreneurship programs. The two went from regional to national intensive programs, traveling all over the U.S. By 2021, Minerva had received pre-seed funding from NSF.
Lung-health startup Respira Labs inhales $2.8M to help respiration patients breathe easier
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
million in grants from Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes for Health (NIH). On top of the investment raised, the company was awarded an additional $1.8
Cyberinfrastructure: What is it? What does it mean?
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DECEMBER 17, 2007
The National Science Foundation is convinced cyberinfrastructure will transform the conduct of the sciences and that other academic disciplines will soon follow. The director of the NSF has gone so far as to say that it will "usher in a technological age that dwarfs everything we have yet experienced in its sheer scope and power.
How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework
Tech Soup
APRIL 25, 2014
As an example, the National Science Foundation (NSF) found that by not commuting, each NSF teleworker reclaims an average of 62 hours of their lives back and saves $1,201 a year. The Mobile Work Exchange has a handy benefits calculator where you can quantify how much telework can help your particular organization.
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