As a young NASA scientist during the Apollo era, William Borucki helped design the heat shield that brought Apollo 11 ...

The Council of the National Academy of Sciences has approved the nomination of Neil H. Shubin, Robert R. Bensley ...

WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 24 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has selected six papers published by PNAS in 2024 to receive the Cozzarelli Prize, an award that ...

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced today that 20 Kavli Frontiers of Science alumni have been elected to membership in the NAS in recognition of their distinguished and continuing ...

William H. Press is a computer scientist and computational biologist with broad interests in the physical and biological sciences. Press is the Leslie Surginer Professor of Computer Science and ...

Planning Group Members: Falko Judt, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Kira Rehfeld, University of Tuebingen and Yoshihiro Nakayama, Hokkaido University INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Marie-Luise ...

The pandemic demonstrated that there is strong public benefit derived from researchers having prompt access to a variety of data sources, such as data from public and government bodies, as well as ...

Our lab studies the mechanisms by which cells and organisms respond to genetic change. The genetic landscape faced by a living cell is constantly changing. Developmental transitions, environmental ...

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 ...