Past Events

In recent years X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) have increased by ten or more orders of magnitude in coherence and brightness. XFELs allow for the first time the exploration of the structure and dynamics of atomic, molecular, and high energy density...

Oct22

The quality, scope, and impact of U.S. science and technology is admired the world over. International scientific collaborations highlight key values including evidence, peer review, transparency, teamwork, and dialog. Scientific leadership and technological prowess are also elements of national power...

Oct15

On the eve of Kepler's launch in 2009, astronomers knew of a few hundred planets orbiting other stars in the Milky Way. Today, the discoveries spill into the thousands, and the sensitivity boundaries continue to expand. NASA's Kepler Mission unveiled...

Oct8

Retinal prostheses represent an exciting development in science, engineering, and medicine - an opportunity to create devices that exploit our knowledge of neural circuitry in order to replace or even enhance normal function. The lessons we learn in developing them...

Oct2

Earthquake ground-motion data and magnitude-distance attenuation relationships, coupled with earthquake recurrence statistics and fault models, are the basis for our seismic hazard maps and building codes. Seismic hazard maps are constructed in a probabilistic sense for a given rate of...

May21

As microelectronics technology nears the end of exponential growth over time, known as Moore’s law, there is a renewed interest in new computing paradigms such as quantum computing. A key step in the roadmap to build a scientifically or commercially...

May7

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is technique capable of visualizing challenging systems that otherwise defy structural characterization, as it overcomes the need for crystallization, requires only small amounts of sample, and has the potential to deal with and describe compositional and conformational...

Apr30

When materials are nanostructured in the 1-100 nm range, fundamental length scales related to transport are often crossed. In the case of heat transport by phonons, the dominant wavelength at room temperature is typically in the 1-10 nm range. Hence...

Apr9

We present four new findings regarding the state of knowledge and remaining uncertainties concerning the anthropogenic agents of climate change. These agents include the long-lived greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and the short-lived climate forcers including methane and aerosols. ...

Apr2

Past Events

X-ray free-electron lasers and the exploration of matter at the angstrom-femtosecond scale

Science and national security

Exoplanet frontiers: Kepler & the next decade of NASA exploration

Toward a natural-resolution neural interface: artificial retina

Excitation and Propagation of Earthquake Ground Motions: Improving our Understanding of Earthquake Hazards

Quantum Supremacy: Checking a Quantum Computer with a Classical Supercomputer

Visualizing Structure, Dynamics and Interactions of Macromolecules Controlling the Reading of Our Genes

Transport of Heat, Mass and Charge in Nanostructured Materials

The Radiative Drivers of Climate Change: Known Knowns and Known Unknowns