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 ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Academy Honors 20 for Major Contributions to Science WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences will ...

The largest and most damaging earthquakes represent a tiny fraction of the seismic activity worldwide. In places like California and Japan, micro-earthquakes occur nearly every few minutes, forming ...

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 ...

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Biological tissues and fluids become far more transparent to light in the near infrared spectral window, at wavelengths too long for our eyes to detect. This increased transparency is highly promising ...

Lawrence Craig Evans is currently the Class of 1961 Collegium Professor in the Mathematics Department at UC Berkeley. He was born in 1949 in Atlanta, where he grew up. He took his undergraduate degree ...

As a glacial geologist I study the record of former large ice sheets and mountain-glacier complexes. This record affords insights about the dynamics of such ice masses throughout the Cenozoic and ...

Donna Strickland is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo and is one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 for developing chirped pulse ...

Dr. Philip Kim is Professor of Physics and Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard University. He was born and raised in Korea. He received his BS (1990) and MS (1992) degrees in physics from Seoul ...

The focus of Guinevere Kauffmann's research has been to establish a connection between theoretical models of structure formation in the Universe and the properties of the luminous galaxies that we ...