The adage 'a picture is worth a thousand words' motivates visualization across disciplines, but how do we capture the motion ...

Kristi Anseth has been named recipient of the 2025 Simon Ramo Founders Award by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) ...

WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences has named Monica Feit as its next executive officer, effective Oct. 4, 2025. In this role, Feit will oversee NAS core membership activities, including the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

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 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 Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics is presented every three years and carries with it a $20,000 prize. The Award recognizes outstanding contributions made to the field of biophysics.

The NAS Public Welfare Medal is the Academy’s most prestigious award and is presented annually to honor extraordinary use of science for the public good. The Academy presented its 2025 Public Welfare ...

Gene E. Robinson obtained his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1986 and joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989. He holds a University Swanlund Chair and Center ...