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 ...

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 ...

Celebrating Scientific Discoveries for the Benefit of Humankind and Paving the Way for Future Breakthroughs Join the Embassy of Sweden and the National Academy of Sciences for the 2024 Nobel Prize ...

May 21-22, 2025 Washington, DC Forum Program Short Summary of the Forum Assessing biodiversity is fundamental to understanding the distribution of biodiversity, the changes that are occurring and, ...

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 ...

Jan. 23, 2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Academy Honors 20 for Major Contributions to Science WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences will honor 20 individuals with awards recognizing their ...

The NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences was established in 2016, endowed through generous gifts from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research ...

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 ...

Andrea Liu is a theoretical soft and living condensed matter physicist. She is best known for developing the field of jamming, which provides a unifying conceptual framework for understanding ...