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 research. Those ...

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced today that 19 Kavli Frontiers of Science alumni have been elected to membership in the NAS in recognition of their distinguished and continuing ...

In a statement, the presidents of NAS, NAE, and NAM urge the Trump administration to maintain a welcoming environment for international students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities, ...

From the walls of the Alhambra to the floors of Winchester Cathedral, virtually every culture uses repeated shapes for decorative purposes. Mathematical interest in these patterns, called ...

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 ...

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 ...

A consistent finding in aging research is that older adults tend to perform worse than younger adults on tests of memory and cognitive function. These differences are often attributed to age-related ...

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 ...

Leif Andersson is a specialist in genetics and genome biology. He explores the relationship between genetic and phenotypic variation. He has been working on comparative genomics using domestic animals ...

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 ...

My research is primarily focused on observational cosmology. I have been very active in measuring the current expansion rate of the universe, or the Hubble constant, making use of large optical ...