The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of ...

This year’s Annual Meeting will be held from Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27. Although in-person attendance is limited to NAS members, several sessions and ceremonies will be livestreamed ...

Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences (CPNAS) organizes a diverse set of activities that explore the intersections among the arts, science, medicine, engineering, and popular culture.

A full playlist of all symposium sessions may be found here.

Since mid-90's Dr. Hee-Sup Shin's group has pioneered in applying molecular genetics to studying neural mechanisms for animal behaviors, primarily focusing on defining the role of the thalamus. His ...

Geoffrey Hinton received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh in 1978. After five years as a faculty member at Carnegie-Mellon he became a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced ...

Emily A. Carter is the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment ...

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.

Geoffrey W. Coates is a chemist known for his work on the development of new catalysts for the synthesis of small molecules and polymers. He is known particularly for his research on the development ...

My research interests are the molecular, developmental, and behavioral genetics of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans; use of mutants and molecular biology to analyze the genetic control of cell ...

As a cognitive scientist interested in the origins and ontology of humans' capacity for language, I study language development in human infants from the earliest moments of life. Using cross-cultural ...