2023 Annual Meeting—Research Briefings by Members Elected in 2021 and 2022 – Session 2
Four new members presented their research and answer questions from the audience: Force, Direction and Persistence: How Cells Crawl Julie A. Theriot, Professor, University of Washington; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Chief Scientific Advisor, Allen Institute for Cell Science Analyses from Near (Meteorites) and Far (Spacecraft): Complementary Approaches to Planetary Exploration Harry Y. McSween, Jr.,…
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NAS President Marcia McNutt opened the meeting with her annual address to NAS members.
Read More2023 Annual Meeting—Presentation Ceremony for Members Elected in 2022
Members elected in 2022 were introduced to their colleagues in the Academy and signed the “Registry of Membership.”
Read More2023 Annual Meeting—Research Briefings by Members Elected in 2021 and 2022 – Session 1
Dark Matter Illuminates Cholesterol Metabolism: Kathryn J. Moore, Jean and David Blechman Professor of Cardiology, and Director, Cardiovascular Research Center, New York University Grossman School of Medicine Human Skin Color as a Biocultural Adaptation, and More: Nina G. Jablonski, Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University Reimagining a World without Breast Cancer:…
Read More2023 Annual Meeting—Awards Ceremony
Since 1886, the National Academy of Sciences has honored outstanding achievement in the physical, biological, and social sciences through its awards program. This annual awards ceremony honored the major contributions made by the 17 researchers, including an address by the 2023 Public Welfare Freeman A. Hrabowski, III.
Read MoreDistinctive Voices—Hidden no more: Decoding glycan messages with chemical biology to create new biomedical opportunities
Our cells are encapsulated by a layer of sugary molecules called glycans. These glycans can serve as molecular beacons for cells to facilitate communication with their environment. Studying glycans and decoding their messages can unlock new opportunities for the discovery of new biomarkers and new opportunities to treat disease. However, due to their unique characteristics,…
Read MoreDistinctive Voices—From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Life
In this talk, Dr. Kriegman will describe recent efforts to bring AI out of the digital realm of bits and pixels and into the material world as living machines of diverse size, shape, composition, and niche. While the resulting creatures are exceedingly simple by modern standards, he will argue that they open the way to…
Read MoreDistinctive Voices—Planet Nine from Outer Space
For nearly 200 years astronomers have repeatedly claimed evidence for new planets beyond Neptune. All such claims have eventually been shown to be wrong. Until now? Eight years ago Konstantin Batygin and I showed new evidence that a giant planet is influencing the orbits of bodies in the distant Solar System. Since that time, the…
Read MoreDistinctive Voices—The Future of Artificial Intelligence
AI is all around us—recognizing our faces in photos, transcribing our speech, constructing our news feeds, navigating our driving routes, answering our search queries, and much more. But rapidly improving AI is poised to play a much bigger role in all of our lives. In this lecture, AI expert Melanie Mitchell will demystify how current-day…
Read MoreDistinctive Voices—Achieving sustainable productivity in agriculture through beneficial microbial associations
The availability of nitrogen and phosphorus is a major limitation to crop productivity and this is currently addressed primarily through application of inorganic fertilisers to augment these limiting nutrients. Use of such fertilisers contributes the greatest cause of pollution from agriculture in high and middle-income countries, while access to inorganic fertilisers is extremely limited for…
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