Author: and Law

Eyewitnesses play an important role in criminal cases when they can identify culprits. Estimates suggest that tens of thousands of eyewitnesses mak...

Research universities are critical contributors to our national research enterprise. They are the principal source of a world-class labor force and...

On October 17, 2014, spurred by incidents at U.S. government laboratories that raised serious biosafety concerns, the United States government laun...

When, in late 2011, it became public knowledge that two research groups had submitted for publication manuscripts that reported on their work on ma...

Thirty years ago federal policy underwent a major change through the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which fostered greater uniformity in the way research a...

Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security is a study on the ethical, legal, and societal issues relating to the research on...

U.S. leadership in technology innovation is central to our nation's interests, including its security, economic prosperity, and quality of life. Ou...

During the 2016 presidential election, America's election infrastructure was targeted by actors sponsored by the Russian government. Securing the V...

Climate change is creating impacts that are widespread and severe for individuals, communities, economies, and ecosystems around the world. While ...

Technological advances in noninvasive neuroimaging, neurophysiology, genome sequencing, and other methods together with rapid progress in computati...

The potential misuse of advances in life sciences research is raising concerns about national security threats. Dual Use Research of Concern in the...

The Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, Third Edition, assists judges in managing cases involving complex scientific and technical evidence by...

Facial recognition technology is increasingly used for identity verification and identification, from aiding law enforcement investigations to iden...