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U.S. Labs Focus on Making the Indoors Safer

The Global Innovation Index ranks the United States as the highest-spending country on research and devel...
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Check Out These Experiments on the International Space Station

Think of the International Space Station as a floating science lab that’s constantly conducting experimen...
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Safety is Top of Mind as U.S. Develops Coronavirus Vaccine

America, along with the rest of the world, is working swiftly to develop a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, th...
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Meet the U.S. Scientist Who Invented the N95 Mask Filter

When, in the 1990s, Peter Tsai invented the material that made the N95 mask possible, he never expected i...
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NASA Engineers Develop a Ventilator for COVID-19 Patients

A meeting over coffee at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has led to a ventilator prototype for COV...
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These Sea Turtles Face Peril

Sea turtles have been swimming the world’s oceans for more than 100 million years. Yet today the survival...
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New Satellite Tech Speeds Response during Natural Disasters

A platform created by a U.S. company will streamline the way satellites around the world are controlled. ...
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NASA Names Telescope for Pioneering Female Astronomer

NASA, the U.S. space agency, will name its next-generation space telescope in honor of Nancy Grace Roman....
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U.S. Launches Space Plane on Scientific Mission

The X-37B orbital test vehicle has successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, for its sixth miss...
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Check Out These Futuristic NASA Projects

NASA is considering a lightweight robotic vehicle (below) that uses interconnected rods rather than wheel...
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U.S. Researchers Map COVID-19 Cases to Predict Future Needs

Researchers from the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute have won a $10 million, five-year c...
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U.S. Company Uses Drones to Deliver COVID-19 Tests in Ghana

An American company based in California is using drones to transport COVID-19 tests between rural Ghana a...
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How America Beat Polio

During the 1950s, America lived every day in fear of polio. Hysteria was pervasive because there was no c...
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U.S. Military Has Long Worked to Stop Contagions

In the wake of the new coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Department of Defense has given $1.1 million in lab...
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NASA Scientists Operate Mars Rover From Home

Like so many other workers around the world affected by a COVID-19 lockdown, the team of scientists that ...
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U.S. Makes Advances on COVID-19 Vaccines

U.S. scientists are getting closer to a vaccine to keep the world safe from COVID-19. Several U.S. par...
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U.S. Supercomputers Take Aim Against Coronavirus

The United States is making the world's most advanced supercomputers available to scientists around the g...
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U.S. Leadership on Global Health is Unmatched

Viruses do not respect national boundaries. They are a global threat. And the United States’ investment i...
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