Editing National Academy of Sciences (section)

==Overview==
{{as of|2024}}, the National Academy of Sciences includes 2,687 [[Member of the National Academy of Sciences|NAS members]] and 531 [[Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences|international members]].<ref name=aboutnas>{{cite web
  | title = About NAS: Membership
  | publisher = National Academy of Sciences
  | year = 2013
  | url = http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/membership/
  | access-date = August 21, 2013
  | archive-date = March 20, 2019
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190320221546/http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/membership/
  | url-status = live
  }}</ref> It employed about 1,100 staff in 2005.<ref>{{cite web
  | last = Alberts
  | first = Bruce
  | title = Summing Up: Creating a Scientific Temper for the World
  | publisher = National Academy of Sciences
  | year = 2005
  | url = http://www.nasonline.org/site/DocServer/speech2005.pdf?docID=741
  | access-date = April 28, 2009
  | archive-date = June 29, 2011
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110629015209/http://www.nasonline.org/site/DocServer/speech2005.pdf?docID=741
  | url-status = live
  }}</ref><ref name=nasoverview>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/membership/|title=Overview: Membership|website=nasonline.org|access-date=April 2, 2018|archive-date=March 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190320221546/http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/membership/|url-status=live}}</ref> Some 190 members have won a Nobel Prize.<ref name=aboutnas/>  By its own admission in 1989, the addition of women to the academy "continues at a dismal trickle"; at that time there were 1,516 male members and 57 female members.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28046754/news_of_the_week_from_the_science_world/ |title=News of the week from the science world |date=May 20, 1989 |work=San Francisco Examiner |department=Journals |page=D-2 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=April 15, 2022}}</ref>

The National Academy of Sciences is one of the 135 member organizations of the [[International Science Council]] (ISC). Although there is no formal relationship with state and local academies of science, there often is informal dialogue. The National Academy is governed by a 17-member Council, made up of five officers (president, vice president, home secretary, international secretary, and treasurer) and 12 Councilors, all of whom are elected from among the academy membership.<ref>{{cite web|title=Constitution|url=http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/leadership/governing-documents/constitution.html|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|access-date=July 20, 2014}}</ref>  Agencies of the United States government fund about 85 percent of the academy's activities. Further funding comes from state governments, private foundations, and industrial organizations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sites.nationalacademies.org/deps/deps_037300|title=Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences FAQ|website=The National Academies|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090413202117/http://sites.nationalacademies.org/deps/deps_037300|archive-date=April 13, 2009|url-status=live|access-date=June 8, 2019}}</ref>

The council has the ability ad-hoc to delegate certain tasks to committees. For example, the Committee on Animal Nutrition has produced a series of ''Nutrient requirements of domestic animals'' reports since at least 1944, each one being initiated by a different sub-committee of experts in the field for example on [[dairy cattle]].{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}

The National Academy of Sciences meets annually in Washington, D.C., which is documented in the ''[[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences]]'' (PNAS), its scholarly journal. The [[National Academies Press]] is the publisher for the National Academies and makes more than 5,000 publications freely available on its website.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=06022011 |title=Newsroom |publisher=National-Academies.org |date=June 2, 2011 |access-date=March 12, 2012}}</ref>

From 2004 to 2017, the National Academy of Sciences administered the [[Marian Koshland Science Museum]] to provide public exhibits and programming related to its policy work. The museum's exhibits focused on [[global warming|climate change]] and [[infectious disease]]. In 2017, the museum closed and made way for a new science outreach program called LabX.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Science Out of the Box: Exploring Pathways to Relevance for the Millennial Generation |url=https://webassets.nationalacademies.org/LabX/audience-research/ |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=webassets.nationalacademies.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Science Out of the Box: Exploring Pathways to Relevance for the Millennial Generation |url=https://archive.informalscience.org/science-out-box-exploring-pathways-relevance-millennial-generation |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=informalscience.org |language=en}}</ref>