National Science Foundation

1. Preparing science educators to use and teach AI in the classroom

   An interdisciplinary team of researchers funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation has created a teacher-driven curriculum called Shark AI. This optional online program introduces Florida middle school teachers and students to artificial…

2. Lab-synthesized botanical compound shows promise for fighting aggressive breast cancer

   Chemists funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation have developed a new process to synthesize a plant-based compound that shows effectiveness against triple-negative breast cancer cells. According to the American Cancer Society, triple-negative…

3. 4 planets discovered around Barnard's star, one of the closest stars to Earth

   Researchers supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation have discovered four tiny exoplanets orbiting Barnard's star, a red dwarf at the center of the nearest single-star system to Earth. Using a specialized instrument mounted on the NSF…

4. Using machine learning to speed up discovery for drug delivery and disease treatment

   A new computational tool developed with support from the U.S. National Science Foundation could greatly speed up determining the 3D structure of RNAs, a critical step in developing new RNA-based drugs, identifying drug-binding sites and using RNAs in…