Pnas Science Sessions

Vinay Pathak describes when and where HIV sheds its capsid coating while infecting human cells.

Jeannie Lee describes the discovery of self-cleaving ribozymes.

Josh Bongard describes AI-designed, reconfigurable biological organisms made from frog cells.

Jonathon Yuly, David Beratan, and Peng Zhang investigate how electron bifurcation reactions work.

Adam Mastroianni and Daniel Gilbert explore why conversations almost never end when people want them to.

Joe Levy shows how glaciers on Mars can reveal its climate history.

Marianne Alleyne, Aimy Wissa, and Ophelia Bolmin explain how the click beetle amplifies power to pull off its signature jump.

Mara Reed and Michael Manga explore why Yellowstone's Steamboat Geyser resumed erupting in 2018.

Martin Bizzarro tells what zircon crystals reveal about the geological history of Mars.

Aleix Martinez explains why facial expressions often are not accurate indicators of emotion.

Amanda Rodewald, Ivan Rudik, and Catherine Kling talk about the hazards of ozone pollution to birds.

Se-Jin Lee and Emily Germain-Lee explain a way to preserve bone and muscle mass during spaceflight.

David Crowder and Gengping Zhu explain how to predict the spread of the Asian giant hornet.

Brian Fields explores a hypothesis that a supernova may be responsible for a mass extinction.

Eric Horvitz discusses AI’s promises and perils.

Juliana Vianna and Rauri Bowie explain the origin and diversification of penguins.

William Nordhaus explains the economic consequences of Greenland ice sheet melt.

NAS member Dalton Conley explains how the Vietnam War draft lotteries are a natural experiment for studying how military service affects life outcomes.

Clark Larsen describes the costs of urban life a Neolithic city.

Mette Svenning and Alexander Tveit describe a bacterium that can live on gases in the air.