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Reliable and valid forensic science analytic techniques are critical to a credible, fair, and evidence-based criminal justice system. There is wide...

The Department of Commerce operates two telecommunications research laboratories located at the Department of Commerce's Boulder, Colorado, campus:...

Immunotherapy is a form of cancer therapy that harnesses the body's immune system to destroy cancer cells. In recent years, immunotherapies have be...

Older adults are a growing demographic group in the United States, and a range of physical, social, financial, and cultural factors affect their nu...

Passenger screening at commercial airports in the United States has gone through significant changes since the events of September 11, 2001. In res...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was signed into law in 2010, has several provisions that could greatly improve the beha...

The public health burden from lung cancer is substantial: it is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related d...

The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is an interagency program, established by the Global Change Research Act (GCRA) of 1990, mandated ...

Military operations produce a great deal of trash in an environment where standard waste management practices may be subordinated to more pressing ...

Communities provide the context in which programs, principles, and policies are implemented. Their needs dictate the kinds of programs that communi...

The most recent Ebola epidemic that began in late 2013 alerted the entire world to the gaps in infectious disease emergency preparedness and respon...

The United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is moving towards a sustained assessment process that allows for more fluid and consisten...

Recent years have yielded significant advances in computing and communication technologies, with profound impacts on society. Technology is transfo...

A decade ago, the U.S. chemical industry was in decline. Of the more than 40 chemical manufacturing plants being built worldwide in the mid-2000s w...

New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (NWNH), the report of the 2010 decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics, put forward a v...

The 20142015 Ebola epidemic in western Africa was the longest and most deadly Ebola epidemic in history, resulting in 28,616 cases and 11,310 death...

Historically, the United States has been a world leader in aerospace endeavors in both the government and commercial sectors. A key factor in aeros...

The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (DOE) is responsible for the safe cleanup of sites used for nuclear weapons developme...

The importance of higher education has never been clearer. Educational attainmentthe number of years a person spends in schoolstrongly predicts adu...

An estimated 90 percent of oncology patients in the United States receive treatment in outpatient cancer centers and clinics. This change from the ...

Skilled technical occupationsdefined as occupations that require a high level of knowledge in a technical domain but do not require a bachelor's de...

At the request of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, the National Academies convened a committee to examine lessons learne...

Though cancer was once considered to be a problem primarily in wealthy nations, low- and middle-income countries now bear a majority share of the g...

Living independently and participating in one's community are priorities for many people. In many regions across the United States, there are progr...

Electricity is the lifeblood of modern society, and for the vast majority of people that electricity is obtained from large, interconnected power g...

Prior to 2012, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) technology had been primarily used by the military and hobbyists, but it has more recently transitio...

In November 2017, the The Forum on Promoting Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health, in collaboration with the Roundtable on the Pr...

The ocean is an integral component of the Earth's climate system. It covers about 70% of the Earth's surface and acts as its primary reservoir of h...

The Manufacturing USA initiative seeks to reinforce U.S.-based advanced manufacturing through partnerships among industry, academia, and government...

In 2014 the National Science Foundation (NSF) provided support to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for a series of For...

In its landmark report, Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion, the Institute of Medicine noted that there are 90 million adults in the U...

The Superfund program of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created in the 1980s to address human-health and environmental risks pose...

Spacecraft depend on electronic components that must perform reliably over missions measured in years and decades. Space radiation is a primary sou...