The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has announced that the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded ...

Geoffrey Hinton received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh in 1978. After five years as a faculty member at ...

Richard Lounsbery Award recipient, will present the 2024 Lounsbery Lecture on "Neuron-glial Interactions in Health and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The NAS Award in Chemical Sciences is presented annually to honor innovative research in the chemical sciences that contributes to a better understanding of the natural sciences and to the benefit of ...

The Selman A. Waksman Award recognizes a major advance in the field of microbiology and is presented with a $20,000 prize. Nominations are being accepted now for the 2025 Award. Nancy A. Moran, The ...

The upcoming Lunar Trailblazer mission is among the first of a new type of NASA mission: small satellites for planetary exploration. Lunar Trailblazer follows up on one of the most surprising ...

My research interests are in the area of photosensory perception and signal transduction in plants. We study the molecular mechanisms by which the phytochrome family of informational photoreceptors ...

Current research is on the causes and principles governing linguistic change and diversity, through the study of change in progress in the speech community; the social and ethnic stratification of ...