The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of ...

This year’s Annual Meeting will be held from Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27. Although in-person attendance is limited to NAS members, several sessions and ceremonies will be livestreamed ...

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 ...

Charles Marcus is an experimental condensed matter physicist known for contributions to mesoscopic physics, quantum Hall effects, and connections to quantum chaos. His work also spans spin transport, ...

Dr. Friesen's health policy interest is focused on the knowledge generated through research as the driver of change, continuous improvement and innovation in health systems; it is to see research as a ...

Mehran Kardar is known for his research and teaching in statistical physics. Born in Tehran, he studied in Cambridge University (BA in 1979), and at MIT (PhD in 1983). He was a Junior Fellow of the ...

Dr. Richard J. Roberts is the Chief Scientific Officer at New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts. He received a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1968 from Sheffield University and then moved as a ...

Lindy Elkins-Tanton studies the formation and subsequent evolution of rocky planets. She was born and grew up in Ithaca, New York, and now splits her time between Arizona and Massachusetts.

I am theoretical physicist interested in the qualitative understanding of the macroscopic and collective properties of condensed matter systems, and on the relation between this and the microscopic ...

Andrew D. Hanson is C.V. Griffin Sr. Eminent Scholar in the Horticultural Sciences Department at the University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. His B.Sc. in Biochemistry and ...

Richard S. Ostfeld is Distinguished Senior Scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York. He is also Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University and the University of ...

I was fortunate to have studied cytogenetics as an undergraduate and this led to my being employed in research in the new field of human cytogenetics. My research has remained focused in this field ...