The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Those ...

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced today that 19 Kavli Frontiers of Science alumni have been elected to membership in the NAS in recognition of their distinguished and continuing ...

In a statement, the presidents of NAS, NAE, and NAM urge the Trump administration to maintain a welcoming environment for international students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities, ...

The Frontiers of Science symposium series was created as the first program of the National Academy of Sciences targeted specifically for early career scientists. Frontiers was designed to bridge the ...

Andrea Liu is a theoretical soft and living condensed matter physicist. She is best known for developing the field of jamming, which provides a unifying conceptual framework for understanding ...

Susan Wessler is Distinguished Professor of Genetics emerita at the University of California Riverside. In 2011 she was elected Home Secretary of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the first ...

The NAS Award for Scientific Discovery is presented every two years to recognize an accomplishment or discovery in basic research, achieved within the previous five years, that is expected to have a ...

The memorial to Albert Einstein, situated in an elm and holly grove in the southwest corner of the Academy grounds, was unveiled at the Academy's annual meeting, April 22, 1979, in honor of the ...

A full playlist of symposium session presentations may be found here. Organizers: Srijan Kumar, Georgia Institute of Technology INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: AI for Societal-Scale Problems – And How We Might ...

Marcia McNutt is a geophysicist and president of the National Academy of Sciences. From 2013 to 2016, she served as editor-in-chief of the Science journals. Prior to joining Science, she was director ...