The National Science Foundation’s Directorate for STEM Education has issued a Dear Colleague Letter inviting supplemental funding requests to support the Presidential AI Challenge: Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth.

Vanderbilt University researchers Brett V. Benson and Brett J. Goldstein are sounding the alarm on the rise of AI-driven propaganda, urging urgent action from academia, government, and industry.

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $3 million to establish the NSF ACE-3D Chip Design Hub at the University of Chicago, a national center to accelerate domestic semiconductor innovation.

Two faculty members and two graduate students from Oklahoma State University’s Boone Pickens School of Geology recently returned from a five-week NSF-funded international research expedition aboard the R/V Roger Revelle, studying sediment and seawater…

The U.S. National Science Foundation and NVIDIA have announced a $152 million public-private partnership to create the Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure to Accelerate Science (OMAI), led by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). The initiative will produce…

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $29.2 million through its EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (FEC) to advance transformative, multi-state research in historically underfunded jurisdictions.

The National Science Foundation has awarded University of Rhode Island (URI) assistant professor Reza Abiri a prestigious NSF CAREER Award to develop fully noninvasive, intelligent assistive robotics technologies that help individuals with severe motor…

The U.S. National Science Foundation, with additional support from the Simons Foundation, has launched the Institute for Computer-Aided Reasoning in Mathematics (ICARM) at Carnegie Mellon University, a bold initiative to modernize mathematical reasoning…

The U.S. National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (NSF CISE) invites researchers to a live webinar introducing its Future Computing Research (Future CoRe) Solicitation – NSF 25-543.

The U.S. National Science Foundation has issued a new solicitation (NSF 25-543) inviting proposals for transformative research in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) through its Future Computing Research (Future CoRe) and CPS programs.

The NIH Common Fund has announced FY2026 funding opportunities for the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, New Innovator Award, and Transformative Research Award in the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.

Baylor University chemistry professor Liela Romero, Ph.D., has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to advance research in sustainable chemical synthesis and cancer drug discovery.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with Capital One and Intel, has announced a $100 million investment in five new National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes, plus a central coordination hub.

Dr. Zhen Cong of Chapman University has received a $133,453 NSF grant to lead social science research that enhances household hurricane preparedness by analyzing vulnerability, resilience, and strategies for effective mitigation.

UTA assistant professor Yichen Zhang has received a $500,067 NSF CAREER Award to improve grid stability and safety by advancing grid-forming control technologies for renewable energy systems, with guidance from industry partners like ERCOT and Oncor.

The NSF has awarded $20 million to Georgia Tech, UIUC’s NCSA, and partners to build Nexus—a 400-quadrillion-operations-per-second, AI-driven supercomputer with 330 trillion bytes of memory and 10 quadrillion bytes of storage—set for spring 2026 to…