Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences (CPNAS) organizes a diverse set of activities that explore the intersections among the arts, science, medicine, engineering, and popular culture.

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 ...

While AI has shown tremendous success in many scientific fields, it remains a grand challenge to incorporate physical principles in a systematic manner into the design and training of these models. In ...

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 ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is the NASA Astrophysics Division’s next flagship mission. Roman will conduct surveys of the sky to help reveal some of our Universe’s most interesting ...

A full playlist of all symposium sessions may be found here.

My main research interests are focused on regulation of immune and inflammatory responses. Inflammation can be initiated by a variety of noxious conditions, including infections, cellular stress and ...

Emery N. Brown is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and professor of computational neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of ...

Rodolphe Barrangou Ph.D. is the T. R. Klaenhammer Distinguished Professor in Probiotics Research at North Carolina State University. Rodolphe spent 9 years in R&D and M&A at Danisco and DuPont, and ...

Cynthia Dwork, a Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research, spearheaded a successful effort to place privacy-preserving analysis of data on a firm mathematical foundation. A cornerstone of this ...

My research has primarily been in the areas of Bayesian statistics, statistical decision theory, foundations of statistics, and various interdisciplinary areas of science and industry. The work in ...

In my lab I use C. elegans molecular genetics and genomics to study problems in developmental biology and physiology. I have have studied the pathways by which microRNAs and other small RNAs regulate ...