Ten Big Ideas for Future NSF Investment

Watch below as the National Science Foundation (NSF) expands on it's "Big Ideas", first revealed last year. These are 10 bold, long-term research and process ideas that identify areas for future investment at the frontiers of science and engineering. With its broad portfolio of investments, NSF is uniquely suited to advance this set of cutting-edge research agendas and processes that will require collaborations with industry, private foundations, other agencies, science academies and societies, and universities and the education sector. The Big Ideas represent unique opportunities to position our Nation at the cutting edge -- indeed to define that cutting edge -- of global science and engineering leadership and to invest in basic research and processes that advance the United States' prosperity, security, health and well-being.

Video credit: National Science Foundation