Lin Meng is the grand prize winner of the 2021 Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists for her work evaluating the impact of temperature change and artificial light on plants.
Being a scientist is about pursuing knowledge. But is there also a responsibility upon scientists to communicate or apply that knowledge in a way that contributes positively to society? The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to confront this question head on.
Some of the nation’s top experts and decision-makers on public policy matters impacting the science, engineering, and academic communities convened for the 46th Annual AAAS Science & Technology Policy Forum in October.
AAAS, in partnership with EducationCounsel, has released new and updated resources for higher education institutions to guide them as they seek to boost diversity and equity in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) while adhering to standards in a shifting and challenging legal landscape.
Six entries dealing with aspects of the continuing global COVID-19 pandemic are among the winners of the 2021 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards. Other winners dealt with important issues of equity and ethics in the conduct of science.
Dean Knox, recipient of the inaugural 2021 NOMIS & Science Young Explorer Award, applies new statistical techniques to imperfect data to reveal the extent and severity of racial bias in policing.
Sensations unrelated to hunger, like pain, influence neural activity in the brain’s hunger circuits, according to the recipient of the 2021 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology.
Dr. Andrew Peter Dobson, Dr. Xiang-Jin Meng and Dr. James A. Roth speak on zoonotic diseases and the role of agricultural research in preventing future pandemic during the 2021 Charles Valentine Riley Memorial Lecture.
Three teams of scientists have received the 2021 Golden Goose Award, which recognizes federally funded research that may sound unusual but has ultimately produced great societal benefits.
During National Hispanic Heritage Month, learn about the Hispanic scientists whose efforts, past and present, are paving the way for the future of the scientific enterprise.
For 46 years, the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Forum has been the premier space to address challenges at the intersection of science and policy and their implications for society.
Syukuro Manabe, a climatologist and elected Fellow of AAAS, was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics along with fellow climate researcher Klaus Hasselmann and theoretical physicist Giorgio Parisi.
Ardem Patapoutian, a neuroscientist based at Scripps Research and elected Fellow of AAAS, has received the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with colleague David Julius for uncovering the receptors that enable human beings to feel touch and temperature.
