Author: and Medicine

During the last century and today, the Tennessee walking horse has been used primarily for pleasure and show competition. Unique and natural to the...

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

Significant efforts are ongoing within the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to improve national security and competitiveness by harnessing the growing power o...

As a living substrate, soil is critical to the function of Earth's geophysical and chemical properties. Soil also plays a major role in several hum...

At the request of Congress, this report presents findings and recommendations related to governance of the U.S. government's monitoring, detection,...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two programs that provide disability benefits: the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)...

Established in December 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Data Science Postsecondary Education wa...

In December 2019, new cases of severe pneumonia were first detected in Wuhan, China, and the cause was determined to be a novel beta coronavirus re...

Electric power is a critical infrastructure that is vital to the U.S. economy and national security. Today, the nation's electric power infrastruct...

Headlines frequently appear that purport to highlight the differences among workers of different generations and explain how employers can manage t...

Business structures, employment relationships, job characteristics, and worker outcomes have changed in the United States over the last few decades...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine last reviewed the state of the science on nutrition during pregnancy and lactation 30...

Human milk is considered the biologic norm for feeding the human infant during the first 6 months of life, and it is a preferred food from 6 to 12 ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)leads a nuclear security enterprise that includes three national laboratories, several productio...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine was asked to articulate a 5-year strategic vision for international health security p...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has overseen significant upgrades to the technology used to manage aviation operations to increase the sa...

In 2009 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) began to assess the need for better-defined medical and public health crisis standards of care (CSC) for ca...

The goal of planetary protection is to control, to the degree possible, the biological cross-contamination of planetary bodies. Guidelines develope...

The Earth system functions and connects in unexpected ways - from the microscopic interactions of bacteria and rocks to the macro-scale processes t...

On November 13 and 14, 2018, members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Global Forum on Innovation in Health Profes...

From daily commutes to cross-country road trips, millions of light-duty vehicles are on the road every day. The transportation sector is one of the...

Throughout history, perhaps no other disease has generated the level of social, scientific, and political discourse or has had the degree of cultur...

Healthy mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) development is a critical foundation for a productive adulthood. Much is known about strategies to ...

The 2011 National Research Council decadal survey on biological and physical sciences in space, Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration: Life an...