Author: Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology

In 2002, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched the Pharmaceutical Quality for the 21st Century Initiative to encourage adoption of i...

To achieve goals for climate and economic growth, negative emissions technologies (NETs) that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will...

The tremendous progress in biology over the last half century - from Watson and Crick's elucidation of the structure of DNA to today's astonishing,...

Chemistry plays a critical role in daily life, impacting areas such as medicine and health, consumer products, energy production, the ecosystem, an...

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

The growing use of nuclear medicine, the potential expansion of nuclear power generation, and the urgent needs to protect the nation against extern...

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

The nanotechnology sector, which generated about $225 billion in product sales in 2009, is predicted to expand rapidly over the next decade with th...

Wildfires in America are becoming larger, more frequent, and more destructive, driven by climate change and existing land management practices. Man...

Over the past century, the work of chemical engineers has helped transform societies and the lives of individuals, from the synthetic fertilizers t...

Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are a type of unconventional explosive weapon that can be deployed in a variety of ways, and can cause loss of ...

The goal of the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD's) Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP) is to provide support and world-class capabilit...