National Science Foundation

noun

U.S. Government.

an independent agency of the executive branch, created in 1950, that promotes and supports research and education in the sciences. NSF

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Lawsuit accuses Trump’s reshaped National Science Foundation of imposing ideology and across-the-board cuts at a cost of scientific and economic advancement.

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The National Science Foundation supports the National Center for Atmospheric Research, but the foundation announced it was freezing all research grants on April 18.

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Emails to the National Science Foundation went unanswered.

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The National Science Foundation was told to comb through thousands of active research projects and defund any deemed too "woke."

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In addition to NIH, scientists have reported that that the National Science Foundation, a government agency that also disperses research funding, has also canceled activities.

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