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 Distinguished Service Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and associate dean of ...

WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 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 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 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 ...

The Einstein Memorial 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, ...

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 ...

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) is a private, nonprofit organization of the country’s leading researchers, recognizing and promoting outstanding science.

Emery N. Brown has developed the state-space point process paradigm to solve neuroscience data analysis challenges: decode how neurons dynamically represent information in their group spiking activity ...