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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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I am a veterinarian parasitologist interested in transmission of zoonotic parasitic diseases from animals to humans, and the discovery of new diseases that cause crippling diseases in humans and ...

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 ...

Arkadi Nemirovski is applied mathematician recognized for his work on convex optimization (complexity, polynomial time and first order algorithms, conic programming, robust optimization) and ...

Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative disorders afflicting humans and other mammals. Uniquely, these diseases are manifest as sporadic, inherited, and infectious illnesses. Recently, ...