Can we stop the pain? It may be the oldest question in medicine, and it remains one of the most important. But with chronic pain afflicting billions of people worldwide, and few effective treatments besides highly addictive opioids, researchers are still searching for better answers.

The Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the United Kingdom are the largest unrestricted prize available to early career scientists in the Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry in the UK. The three 2021 Laureates each received £100,000, and two Finalists in each category received £30,000 per person....

The Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel is one of the largest prizes ever created for early-career researchers in Israel. Given annually to three outstanding, early-career faculty from Israeli universities in three categories—Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry—the awards recognize extraordinary scientific achievements and promote excellence, originality,

Although advances made in health and safety have more than doubled life expectancy throughout much of the world since 1900, it hasn’t been without consequence. Disease, disability, and frailty have all impacted the quality of life associated with these later years. This unfortunate reality was recently illuminated by the COVID-19...

We’re going to the Moon—again! In the next decade, NASA’s Artemis program will first orbit and then land on the lunar surface. What may seem like a rerun from the 1960s is designed to establish a more permanent human presence on the Moon. This will be used for both scientific...

When SARS-CoV-2—the respiratory virus that causes COVID-19—first emerged, most people did not anticipate that it would result in a global public health disaster. COVID-19 rapidly spread from person to person across all borders, bringing hospitals to the brink of collapse, causing a devastating loss of life, and shutting down global...

We’re going to the Moon—again! In the next decade, NASA’s Artemis program will first orbit and then land on the lunar surface. What may seem like a rerun from the 1960s is designed to establish a more permanent human presence on the Moon. This will be used for both scientific...

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, white males made up 53% of all full-time professors in 2018. And while the “STEM pipeline” is becoming more diverse–more than 40% of women and roughly 15% of people of color receive their PhDs in STEM fields–colleges and universities need to implement...

Previous conferences and workshops covering artificial intelligence (AI) for Materials Science have mainly focused on introducing AI into materials simulations, which is only the first step in new materials discovery. These efforts have largely ignored AI’s promise for materials synthesis and translating research into high-volume industrial production.

This panel discussion, presented by the New York Academy of Sciences and Hudson River Park, features diverse STEM experts as they discuss their career paths and the importance of supporting diversity in the STEM workforce.

Educational leaders, policymakers, teachers, and parents have deliberated over the return to school amid the COVID-19 pandemic. But few conversations include the voices of those at the center of it all—the students. As many schools have transitioned to virtual classrooms, students have adapted to their continuously changing learning environments. On...

Climate change has had catastrophic effects on ecosystems throughout the world and has created long lasting and potentially irreversible damage. In this eBriefing, experts discuss how rising temperatures have increased the number and intensity of forest fires and expedited global ice sheet melting.

Previous conferences and workshops covering artificial intelligence (AI) for Materials Science have mainly focused on introducing AI into materials simulations, which is only the first step in new materials discovery. These efforts have largely ignored AI’s promise for materials synthesis and translating research into high-volume industrial production.