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The mission of Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is to discover, innovate, and transition science and technology to ensure dominant strategic land pow...

A high-quality preschool education can foster critical development and learning that promotes joyful, affirming, and enriching learning opportuniti...

Between 1980 and mid-2023, 232 billion-dollar disasters occurred in the U.S. Gulf Coast region, with the number of disasters doubling annually sinc...

Recent disclosures about the bulk collection of domestic phone call records and other signals intelligence programs have stimulated widespread deba...

Does the public trust science? Scientists? Scientific organizations? What roles do trust and the lack of trust play in public debates about how sci...

Bullying has long been tolerated as a rite of passage among children and adolescents. There is an implication that individuals who are bullied must...

Students, parents, and government agencies need as much information as possible about the outcomes of the higher education experience and the exten...

To derive statistics about crime – to estimate its levels and trends, assess its costs to and impacts on society, and inform law enforcement approa...

In 2005, the National Research Council report Rising Above the Gathering Storm recommended a new way for the federal government to spur technologic...

The 21st century has witnessed a complete revolution in the understanding and description of bacteria in eco- systems and microbial assemblages, an...

Over the past several decades, fertility rates have fallen substantially in low- and middle-income countries, and efforts to limit fertility, prima...

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

Separation science plays a critical role in maintaining our standard of living and quality of life. Many industrial processes and general necessiti...

The United States prides itself on being a nation of immigrants, and the country has a long history of successfully absorbing people from across th...

Instructional materials are a key means to achieving the goals of science education—an enterprise that yields unique and worthwhile benefits to ind...

Since 1969, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has been providing policymakers, educators, and the public with reports on acade...

Recent advancements in quantum-enabled systems present a variety of new opportunities and challenges. These technologies are important developments...

The U.S. Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a technical study on lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear acciden...

The Intelligence Community Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop on August 9-10, 2017 ...

Proactive policing, as a strategic approach used by police agencies to prevent crime, is a relatively new phenomenon in the United States. It devel...

Software update is an important mechanism by which security changes and improvements are made in software, and this seemingly simple concept encomp...

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals generate a stream of scientific discoveries and technological innovations tha...

The U.S. Census Bureau maintains an important portfolio of economic statistics programs, including quinquennial economic censuses, annual economic ...

Since its origin 23 years ago as a pilot test conducted in four U.S. counties, the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) has been th...

The Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 2-day public workshop from Decembe...

Computing in some form touches nearly every aspect of day to day life and is reflected in the ubiquitous use of cell phones, the expansion of autom...

Retail trade has experienced dramatic changes over the past several decades in the United States, with changes in the types of outlets where goods ...

This Proceedings of a Workshop summarizes the presentations and discussions at the Workshop on the Implications of Convergence for How the National...

The National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), one of the nation's principal statistical agencie...

For the past 17 years, the U.S. National Commission on Mathematics Instruction (USNC/MI) has held workshops with mathematics educators from countri...

The primary function of the intelligence analyst is to make sense of information about the world, but the way analysts do that work will look profo...

The field of computer science (CS) is currently experiencing a surge in undergraduate degree production and course enrollments, which is straining ...

The environment for obtaining information and providing statistical data for policy makers and the public has changed significantly in the past dec...