Celebrating Scientific Discoveries for the Benefit of Humankind and Paving the Way for Future Breakthroughs Join the Embassy ...

Distinctive Voices highlights innovations, discoveries, and emerging issues in an exciting and engaging public forum. Do you wonder how things work? What the future holds? If you are curious about the ...

Feng Zhang, 2021 Richard Lounsbery Award recipient, will present the 2024 Lounsbery Lecture on "Exploration of Biological ...

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 ...

Mercury is a naturally occurring element that has been mined and released by humans for over 3,000 years. Inorganic mercury, released through human activities, makes up the majority of the mercury ...

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 ...

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 ...

Richard Harland is the C.H. Li Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Developmental Biologist whose ...

I have spent most of my career studying transposition and recombination, two main contributors to genetic variability in plants. Maize species diversity is manifested at all levels, ranging from plant ...

George Coupland is a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany and an Honorary Professor at the University of Cologne. He is a plant molecular-geneticist ...

I am a condensed matter physicist who carries out experiments on a variety of different solid and liquid crystal systems. Our primary experimental methods are neutron and synchrotron x-ray scattering.

My research is focused on molecule-based designs for the creation of advanced materials and devices. We established a new paradigm in chemical sensors, by demonstrating that molecular wires ...