According to all the known laws of physics, the Big Bang should have created a Universe consisting of both matter and ...

Sessions: Are We Alone? The Search for Life Among the Stars Brain-Computer-Interfaces Heat Stress and Human Health: Tackling the World’s Most Dangerous Hazard Invisible Frontiers of Life PFAS ...

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 ...

Distinctive Voices highlights innovations, discoveries, and emerging issues in an exciting and engaging public forum. Do you wonder how things work? What the future holds? If you are curious about the ...

The NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences recognizes research by a mid-career scientist (defined as up to 20 years since completion of PhD) at a U.S. institution who has made an extraordinary ...

As we mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October, we celebrate the work of Kornelia Polyak, a pioneering cancer biologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. For more than two decades ...

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 National Academy of Sciences announces the selection of eighty-seven of the nation’s brightest young scientists from industry, academia, and government to take part in the National Academy of ...

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 ...

On June 2, the NAS joined the science academies of the other G7 nations in issuing the “Ottawa Declaration,” emphasizing the importance of academic freedom, institutional autonomy, the integrity of ...

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The John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science is awarded every two years, to recognize noteworthy and distinguished accomplishments in any field of science within the National Academy of ...