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2024 Nobel Prize Symposium
Celebrating Scientific Discoveries for the Benefit of Humankind and Paving the Way for Future Breakthroughs Join the Embassy ...
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2024 Lounsbery Lecture—Exploration of Biological Diversity
Feng Zhang, 2021 Richard Lounsbery Award recipient, will present the 2024 Lounsbery Lecture on "Exploration of Biological ...
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Distinctive Voices—Forty Years of Coronaviruses
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 ...
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Distinctive Voices – Seeing infrared: bioinspired nanomaterials to enable deep tissue biomedical imaging
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 ...
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NAS President to Serve on U.S. S&T Task Force
NAS President Marcia McNutt is one of more than 60 leaders in science, industry, education, philanthropy, and public policy appointed to a new bipartisan task force for developing a Vision for ...
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Distinctive Voices
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 ...
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The Einstein Memorial
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 ...
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NAS Award in Molecular Biology
The NAS Award in Molecular Biology is supported by Pfizer Inc. and recognizes a recent notable discovery by a young scientist (no older than 50) who is a citizen of the United States. The award is ...
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Kavli Frontiers of Science
The Frontiers of Science symposium series was created as the first program of the National Academy of Sciences targeted specifically for early career scientists. Frontiers was designed to bridge the ...
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Distinctive Voices—Mercury Cycling in Warming Oceans
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 ...
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NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences
The NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences recognizes research by a mid-career scientist (defined as up to 20 years since completion of PhD) at a U.S. institution who has made an extraordinary ...