National Academy of Sciences

1Alan I. Leshner is the chief executive officer emeritus of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is the former executive publisher of Science. 2Victor J. Dzau is president of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine), Washington, DC, USA.

But just 2% of the authors of IPCC's first report in 1990 were women, reported a study published last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( PNAS ). That share had increased to 23% by 2013, when its fifth report was being written, the survey found. In 2015, the United Nations put a ...

Research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that spouses tend to be more genetically similar than two individuals chosen at random. A more recent study has found the same for close adult friends, too. But it's not just about appearance. Back in 1962, psychologist Donn Byrne ...

In a study published this month in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dirk Sanders of the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and his coauthors show that when you remove a species from a simple community—that is, a community with fewer overall species—it can trigger extinctions in other species.

The National Academy of Sciences is conducting days of meetings in Richland, Washington, this week. On the agenda is what to do with a lot of liquid radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear reservation. More than a dozen academy scientists are studying a steady stream of PowerPoints from experts on ...

Justin Crepp, Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics in the College of Science at the University of Notre Dame, and director of the Engineering and Design Core Facility, has been selected to serve on the Exoplanet Science Strategy committee that's part of the upcoming 2020-2030 National Academy of ...

Which makes all the more welcome last week's issuance of the long-awaited National Academy of Sciences study, “Decrypting the Encryption Debate: A Framework for Decision Makers.” The report, a product of a year and a half of work by a “diverse array of leaders from law enforcement, computer science, ...

Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences will celebrate its centennial anniversary this year. Almost two years ago, Ukraine introduced a new law for science to regulate relations between the state and the National Academy of Sciences. This legislative move did not help, however. The National Academy of ...

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released a much-anticipated report yesterday that attempts to influence the encryption debate by proposing a “framework for decisionmakers.” At best, the report is unhelpful. At worst, its framing makes the task of defending encryption harder. The report collapses ...

Sea level rise is happening now, and the rate at which it is rising is increasing every year, according to a study released Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers, led by University of Colorado-Boulder professor of aerospace engineering sciences Steve Nerem, used ...