The US-UK Scientific Forum was established in 2008 to help the scientific leadership of the United Kingdom and the United States forge an enduring and productive partnership on pressing topics of ...

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 ...

Marcia McNutt is a geophysicist and president of the National Academy of Sciences. From 2013 to 2016, she served as editor-in-chief of the Science journals. Prior to joining Science, she was director ...

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 ...

Lisa Ainsworth is a plant physiologist recognized for her work on crop responses to global atmospheric change. She is known particularly for her experimental studies and quantitative syntheses of crop ...

Walter S. Leal is a Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, and chaired the UC Davis Department of Entomology. He ...

SPEAKER: Improving SARS-CoV-2 Drug Development: Using AI and Molecular Dynamics to Understand Mutations and Resistance, Yang Li, Global Health Discovery Institute (GHDDI) SPEAKER: Image-based Deepp ...

Mercury is a naturally occurring element that has been mined and released by humans for over 3,000 years. Inorganic mercury, released through human activities, makes up the majority of the mercury ...

Wilfried Schmid was born in Germany. He came to the United States when his father spent a year as visitor to the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in 1960. That year Schmid entered the ...

Susan Wessler is Distinguished Professor of Genetics emerita at the University of California Riverside. In 2011 she was elected Home Secretary of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the first ...

Michel Georges is Professor in Genetics and Genomics at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Liège in Belgium. He heads the Unit of Genetics of the GIGA Research Institute in the ...

My long-term research has focused on microbial ecology, especially the physiology, diversity, and function of microbes in their natural or managed habitats. In the first part of my career I worked on ...