The talk will begin with a history of coronavirus research, from the 1960s, until the present. It will include the stories of three zoonotic coronaviruses- severe acute respiratory syndrome ...

NAS vice president Diane Griffin died unexpectedly on Monday, October 28 at age 84 in Baltimore, where she was a University Distinguished Service Professor, Gilman Scholar, and chair emeritus of the W ...

The Act to Incorporate the National Academy of Sciences, also known as the Academy Charter, was signed by President Lincoln on 3 March 1863, establishing the Academy as an independent honorary and ...

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The U.S. National Academy of Sciences has entered into a partnership with the Einstein Foundation Berlin for the Einstein ...

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 ...

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 ...

Omar M. Yaghi is known for pioneering reticular chemistry, which is concerned with linking organic and inorganic molecules by strong bonds to make crystalline frameworks such as metal-organic ...

I have been engaged since 1990 in the more philosophical aspects of science. Geology being a science with a temporal dimension, I have been searching for a physical theory of time. My search has ...

Over the course of her career, Professor Kimberly Prather has co-authored over 230 publications on a variety of topics related to atmospheric aerosols. Awards for her work include being an elected ...

Our laboratory at Princeton is dedicated to the Molecular Beam Epitaxial growth of gallium arsenide crystals of the highest quality. In magneto-transport experiments aluminum gallium arsenide-gallium ...

My scientific interests are mostly in the field of quantum theory of condensed matter physics. For a long while I worked to improve the theoretical understanding of the effects of disorder and ...