Six NAS members have received 2026 Kavi Prizes, announced this week by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Eva Andrei, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, and Allan MacDonald were awarded the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience “for foundational work that established the field of Twistronics.”
Christine Holt, Kelsey Martin, and Erin Schuman were recognized with the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience alongside Oswald Steward “for the discovery of local protein translation in neurons and establishing its importance for brain development and plasticity.”
NAS President Marcia McNutt Delivered Annual State of the Science Address
Marcia McNutt discussed the status of the United States’ research enterprise, global leadership in science, and implications for economic competitiveness in the third State of the Science address, on June 2 in Washington, D.C. “Science is our best hope for creating a future we all want — one in which our economy thrives, our country…
Statement by National Academies Presidents on Importance of NSF’s Ocean Observatories Initiative
In announcing its decision to begin removing the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s (OOI) deep-sea infrastructure, the National Science Foundation inaccurately cited a 2025 National Academies report on the future of ocean science. The committee that wrote the peer-reviewed report said the importance of investing in ocean-observing infrastructure and technology, such as OOI, for better understanding of…
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