Jan Elaine Soriano asked a question that researchers had struggled to answer for decades: What if the nervous system could be ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a more common part of everyone’s lives, how is AI impacting K-12 students and teachers? How can the use of AI in the classroom benefit and enhance student ...

When Sergey Stavisky first started thinking about brain-computer interfaces (BCI) as an undergraduate at Brown University, he was motivated by three factors. “I liked building things,” he recalled, ...

The American Association for the Advancement of Science submitted a public comment in the Federal Register on July 13, 2026, to the White House Office of Management and Budget regarding the proposed ...

Since early 2025, the U.S. STEMM ecosystem has faced significant disruption and uncertainty, with effects felt globally. AAAS is hard at work to protect and strengthen the scientific enterprise by ...

More than 150 years ago, America faced a challenge that feels surprisingly familiar today. The nation’s largest workforce sector — agriculture — was at a crossroads and needed to modernize as ...

The Charles Valentine Riley Memorial Foundation (RMF), in partnership with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), is holding the second poster competition for students to ...

Now a postdoctoral associate at Duke University School of Medicine, her work brings together a foundation in microbiology, molecular biology, immunology, genomics, and pathology with a personal ...

For his work in revealing the hidden role of the microbiota in mosquito-borne disease, Yibin Zhu, a research associate professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, is the winner of the 2026 ...

Science and technology have been an essential component of the American political experiment since the beginning. The US constitution explicitly gives Congress the power to promote the progress of ...

The AAAS Office of Government Relations reviewed the 400+ page proposed rule from the Office of Management and Budget called Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance governing federal grants, ...

The AAAS Pathways to Policy Fellowship (PPF) provides experts from an array of backgrounds and scientific disciplines the opportunity to serve in yearlong assignments that impact science policy across ...