Author: Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics

The assessment of risk is complex and often controversial. It is derived from the existence of a hazard, and it is characterized by the uncertainty...

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. ...

As part of its responsibilities under the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sets National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQ...

On January 30-31, 2019 the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics, in collaboration with the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems and th...

Additive manufacturing (AM) is the process in which a three-dimensional object is built by adding subsequent layers of materials. AM enables novel ...

One of the pathways by which the scientific community confirms the validity of a new scientific discovery is by repeating the research that produce...

The Earth system - the atmospheric, hydrologic, geologic, and biologic cycles that circulate energy, water, nutrients, and other trace substances -...

Biomedical research results in the collection and storage of increasingly large and complex data sets. Preserving those data so that they are disco...

The needs and demands placed on science to address a range of urgent problems are growing. The world is faced with complex, interrelated challenges...

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

The Board on Science Education and the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicin...

Data science is emerging as a field that is revolutionizing science and industries alike. Work across nearly all domains is becoming more data driv...

Biomedical research data sets are becoming larger and more complex, and computing capabilities are expanding to enable transformative scientific re...

The effective use of data science - the science and technology of extracting value from data - improves, enhances, and strengthens acquisition deci...