FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Academy Honors 20 for Major Contributions to Science WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences will ...

The largest and most damaging earthquakes represent a tiny fraction of the seismic activity worldwide. In places like California and Japan, micro-earthquakes occur nearly every few minutes, forming ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SPEAKER: Improving SARS-CoV-2 Drug Development: Using AI and Molecular Dynamics to Understand Mutations and Resistance, Yang Li, Global Health Discovery Institute (GHDDI) SPEAKER: Image-based Deepp ...

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.

Emery N. Brown is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and professor of computational neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of ...

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 ...

Hongkui Zeng, PhD, is Executive Vice President and Director of the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Zeng received her BS in Biochemistry from Wuhan University in China. She received her PhD in ...

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 talk will begin with a history of coronavirus research, from the 1960s, until the present. It will include the stories of three zoonotic coronaviruses- severe acute respiratory syndrome ...