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The NSF Inouye Solar Telescope has enabled a major discovery about a hidden solar process, marking a significant advancement in solar physics.

NVIDIA joins the NSF State and Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs program to expand access to AI computing, data, and expertise for research and education across US colleges and universities.

The U.S. National Science Foundation announced a $47 million pilot initiative to create four-year Ph.D. programs that integrate industry research placements, aiming to better prepare STEM doctoral students for careers outside academia.

The NSF announces a first-of-its-kind 4-year PhD program across 30+ universities with students spending over a year embedded in industry, prompting a critical response from @npparikh.

This paper argues that as AI systems achieve breakthroughs in mathematics, the United States is neglecting the human mathematical infrastructure needed to understand, verify, and direct these systems, posing a strategic risk.

Insiders report that the NSF is cutting existing research programs to redirect funding toward a new technology initiative.

The NSF's decommissioning of Ocean Station Papa, a key ocean monitoring network, will leave Alaskans with reduced weather forecasting capabilities and increased vulnerability for coastal communities.

The Trump administration is dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a system of over 900 ocean monitoring instruments, which provides critical data on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a key current system at risk of collapse due to climate change.

A federal judge blocks the government's attempt to transfer a supercomputing center from UCAR/NCAR, ruling the decision was arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedures Act.

In a thread, @agupta agrees with @JTLonsdale's suggestions on the US biotech crisis and adds that the US should aggressively expand the research university system and 10x NIH and NSF budgets to leverage AI.