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The National Science Board was created in 1950 to advise the president and Congress on science and engineering policy, approve major funding awards and guide NSF's future.

The new images of the Sombrero Galaxy, captured by the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera, reveal its bright core amid 2,000 globular star clusters tightly bound by gravity.

Teaspoons are an essential component of any research institute. Some people use a spoon daily to eat their mousse while many others use them for dispensing instant coffee, fishing tea bags out of cups, or adding sugar or milk and stirring their beverage of choice.

Researchers conclude that there is a room within the Menkaure Pyramid that has eluded previous groups of scientists and explorers. The methods used to locate this space had no physical effect on the pyramid.

The terminology of day science and night science, introduced by François Jacob, helps scientists navigate challenges in the lab by encouraging a shift in mindset towards creativity and abstract thinking.

These faults can act like railroad tracks controlling the future direction the tectonic plate moves in. It may also mean plates can rotate one way more easily than another, as there is less tectonic resistance for the plate to turn in one direction - away from the fault - than the other.

The analysis grouped the krakens into two species: Nanaimoteuthis jeletzkyi and N. haggarti, and discovered that they belong to the same evolutionary group as modern dumbo octopuses.

Giant kraken-like octopuses that used powerful beaks to crunch through bones of prey were among the most formidable predators of the Cretaceous oceans. Some ancient octopus species reached up to 19 metres in length, meaning they would have rivalled and possibly even preyed upon apex predators such as mosasaurs and plesiosaurs.

The mystery of the missing scientists began with a Silver Alert. In late February, a retired Air Force major general named Neil McCasland left his house in New Mexico for a walk and never returned.

"The old methodology involved collecting thousands of experimental results and reinterpreting them to get the single number, the magnetic moment of the muon. Our approach was completely different."

Charging the capacitor banks initiates a tense moment in the control room, where silence prevails as everyone focuses on the monitors. After confirming the charge, the shot is fired, releasing stored energy into the beam.

The precise expansion rate of the universe - called the Hubble constant - has turned into a major pain point as attempts to nail it down keep leading to widely differing figures.

Venus suffered a massive runaway greenhouse effect, filling its atmosphere with heat-trapping carbon dioxide, resulting in 90 times the surface pressure of Earth and temperatures above 460 degrees Celsius.