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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 ...

The National Academies Forum on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) hosted a hybrid public workshop in May 2023 to explore what is needed to better serve ...

The National Academies Roundtable on Population Health Improvement hosted a workshop in February 2022, A Population Health Workforce to Meet 21st C...

The National Academies Forum on Microbial Threats and Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders hosted a hybrid public workshop in June 20...

Between 2020-2023, many health systems and organizations created formal positions to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and health equi...

A scientific workforce with cutting-edge skills is critical for the ability of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to carry out its mission to...

Over the past century, artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved from computational theory to everyday conversational technologies, capturing the at...

Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL) are promising tools that can be used to develop algorithms to better un...

On November 7-8, 2013, the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine held a workshop to discuss a...

Health literacy, cultural competence, and language access services are distinct but inextricably linked concepts for delivering equitable care to a...

Including Health in Global Frameworks for Development, Wealth, and Climate Change is the summary of a three-part public webinar convened by the Ins...

The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) was established in 1990 to assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and res...

Liquid fuels are a major part of modern life. They supply energy for ground, water, and air transportation as well as power for industrial and farm...

Nearly every major challenge the United States facesfrom alleviating unemployment to protecting itself from terrorismrequires understanding the cau...

The National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a public workshop, Incorporating Weight Mana...

Fusion offers the prospect of virtually unlimited energy. The United States and many nations around the world have made enormous progress toward ac...

Space-based observations have transformed our understanding of Earth, its environment, the solar system and the universe at large. During past deca...

Genetically engineered (GE) crops were first introduced commercially in the 1990s. After two decades of production, some groups and individuals rem...

While much progress has been made on achieving the Millenium Development Goals over the last decade, the number and complexity of global health cha...

The ability to see deeply affects how human beings perceive and interpret the world around them. For most people, eyesight is part of everyday comm...

In 1999 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a landmark report, Our Common Journey: A Transition toward Sustainab...

The United States and the world face serious threats to nuclear stability and peace, now and in the coming decades. Within the nuclear arena, U.S. ...