Author: and Medicine

Despite decades of government, university, and employer efforts to close the gender gap in engineering, women make up only 11 percent of practicing...

The United States has deployed commercial nuclear power since the 1950s, and as of 2021, nuclear power accounts for approximately 20 percent of U.S...

The COVID-19 pandemic spurred a rapid expansion of wastewater-based infectious disease surveillance systems to monitor and anticipate disease trend...

Over the last three decades, there have been fundamental shifts in the electricity system, including the growing adoption of clean distributed gene...

The marmoset, a type of small monkey native to South America, is a research model of increasing importance for biomedical research in the United St...

During the past century, the Everglades, one of the world's treasured ecosystems, has been dramatically altered by drainage and water management in...

Even as malnutrition in the form of hunger and obesity affect the health and well-being of millions of people worldwide, a significant amount of fo...

During public health emergencies (PHEs) involving chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear threats or emerging infectious diseases, medical c...

A growing body of research indicates that social determinants of health have a significant impact on health care utilization and outcomes. Research...

In spring 2011 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine produced a report outlining the next decade in planetary sciences. Tha...

Since the 1980s, national and international planetary protection policies have sought to avoid contamination by terrestrial organisms that could co...

The Edwards Aquifer in south-central Texas is the primary source of water for one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, San Antonio, ...

In November 2018, an ad hoc planning committee at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine planned two sister workshops held i...

Antimicrobial resistance is a health problem that threatens to undermine almost a century of medical progress. Moreover, it is a global problem tha...

The National Academies Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education hosted a Fall 2022 workshop series to explore the various needs ...

Responding to climate change will entail massive socio-emotional and behavioral changes. Translating policies, investments, or built infrastructure...

Research in biological and physical sciences in space provides the critical scientific and technological foundations that make space exploration po...

The world confronts an existential challenge in responding to climate change, resulting in an urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from a...

The Roman Space Telescope will measurably advance knowledge of dark energy and exoplanet demographics. Locally, it will likely enhance understandin...

Climate change, driven by increases in human-produced greenhouse gases and particles (collectively referred to as GHGs), is the most serious enviro...

This proceedings summarizes the presentations and discussions at the Workshop on the 2020 Census Demographic and Housing Characteristics File, held...

The Roundtable on Population Health Improvement of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop at Hunter Coll...

The mental health and well-being of health professionals is a topic that is broad, exceptionally relevant, and urgent to address. It is both a loca...

Continuing education, continuing professional development, and high-value continuing professional development exist along a continuum. Continuing e...

Industrial stormwater is derived from precipitation and/or runoff that comes in contact with industrial manufacturing, processing, storage, or mate...

An accurate measure of poverty is necessary to fully understand how the economy is performing across all segments of the population and to assess t...

The field of health literacy has evolved from early efforts that focused on individuals to its current recognition that health literacy is a multid...

The assessment of risk is complex and often controversial. It is derived from the existence of a hazard, and it is characterized by the uncertainty...

Every community is affected by traumatic brain injury (TBI). Causes as diverse as falls, sports injuries, vehicle collisions, domestic violence, an...

The United States possesses a treasure-trove of extraterrestrial samples that were returned to Earth via space missions over the past four decades....

An estimated 8 million metric tons (MMT) of plastic waste enters the world's ocean each year - the equivalent of dumping a garbage truck of plastic...

We live in a time of extraordinary discovery and progress in astronomy and astrophysics. The next decade will transform our understanding of the un...

Building communication capacity is a critical piece of preparing for, detecting, and responding to infectious disease threats. The International He...

Natural gas extraction from shale formations, which includes hydraulic fracturing, is increasingly in the news as the use of extraction technologie...

As of 2021, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have reached historically unprecedented levels, higher than at any time in the past 800,000 years. W...

More than 2 million Americans below age 24 self-identify as being of American Indian or Alaska Native descent. Many of the serious behavioral, emot...

Research shows that that children learn science and engineering subjects best by engaging from an early age in the kinds of practices used by real ...