The AAAS Mentor Awards The two categories of the AAAS Mentor Awards (Lifetime Mentor Award and Mentor Award) both honor individuals who during their careers demonstrate extraordinary leadership to ...

Vision & Change efforts have achieved some success, but to date we have lacked objective, quantifiable measures to confirm or ...

a series of recommendations aimed at ensuring that all students— biology majors and those majoring in other fields—gain a ...

Earlier this year, we spotted a forthcoming study which reported that levels of taurine did not consistently decline with age. But we knew Science had published research on this topic in 2023 that ...

Since 1976, the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program has served as a leading source of independent data and analysis on federal support for research and development (R&D). Access our data tools, ...

The below charts and tables present a range of federal R&D data series, including federal research budgets by agency, character and discipline, and some national totals. Most data come from annual ...

In the hunt for a remedy, when the baton is passed from dedicated academic scientists to an innovative company to trusted community advocates, outcomes for society can be especially powerful. Today, ...

AAAS Strategic Vision AAAS MISSION: Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. Advancing Science, Serving Society. AAAS VISION STATEMENT: A boldly ...

Scientific evidence can be incredibly useful in policymaking, but too often, it is undervalued and can sometimes be difficult to access or understand. We want to make it easier for policymakers and ...

Nominations for the 2026 award cycle open on April 15, 2025. The deadline is June 30, 2025. For more information on the AAAS David and Betty Hamburg Award for Science Diplomacy, please visit the award ...

The AAAS fulfills its mission to advance science and serve society through initiatives in science policy, diplomacy, education, career support, public engagement with science, and more.

Human babies pick up language at an exceptional pace during their first year of life, but it has mostly been a mystery whether exposure to language before birth primes their brains to acquire a ...