The 2025 award recipients have been announced. They will be honored in a ceremony on Sunday, April 27 during the National ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Masaki Kashiwara, PhD is Programm-Specific Professor at Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study and Project Professor at Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University. He had a ...

Günter Wagner is the Alison Richard Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University known for his work on the evolution of development and gene regulation. He was born and raised in ...

Keiko U. Torii, PhD is Professor and Johnson & Johnson Centennial Chair in Plant Cell Biology at the Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Texas at Austin. She is also a Howard Hughes ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michael S. Turner is a Visiting Professor at UCLA and the Rauner Distinguished Service Professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, where he was the Director of the Kavli Institute for ...