The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of ...

This year’s Annual Meeting will be held from Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27. Although in-person attendance is limited to NAS members, several sessions and ceremonies will be livestreamed ...

Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences (CPNAS) organizes a diverse set of activities that explore the intersections among the arts, science, medicine, engineering, and popular culture.

A consistent finding in aging research is that older adults tend to perform worse than younger adults on tests of memory and cognitive function. These differences are often attributed to age-related ...

A full playlist of all symposium sessions may be found here.

Dr. Richard J. Roberts is the Chief Scientific Officer at New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts. He received a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1968 from Sheffield University and then moved as a ...

Dr. Angelaki is the Wilhelmina Robertson Professor & Chair of the Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical & Computer ...

Lindy Elkins-Tanton studies the formation and subsequent evolution of rocky planets. She was born and grew up in Ithaca, New York, and now splits her time between Arizona and Massachusetts.

I am theoretical physicist interested in the qualitative understanding of the macroscopic and collective properties of condensed matter systems, and on the relation between this and the microscopic ...

Andrew D. Hanson is C.V. Griffin Sr. Eminent Scholar in the Horticultural Sciences Department at the University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. His B.Sc. in Biochemistry and ...

My research interests are the molecular, developmental, and behavioral genetics of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans; use of mutants and molecular biology to analyze the genetic control of cell ...

Gary Yellen is a biophysicist and neuroscientist recognized for his work on the moving parts of ion channel proteins and on the dynamics of neural metabolism. He earned his AB in Biochemical Sciences ...