Author: Board on Physics and Astronomy

The Committee to Assess the Current Status and Future Direction of High Magnetic Field Science in the United States was convened by the National Re...

The Roman Space Telescope will measurably advance knowledge of dark energy and exoplanet demographics. Locally, it will likely enhance understandin...

We live in a time of extraordinary discovery and progress in astronomy and astrophysics. The next decade will transform our understanding of the un...

The potential for using fusion energy to produce commercial electric power was first explored in the 1950s. Harnessing fusion energy offers the pro...

In the fall of 2010, the Office of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Secretary for Science asked for a National Research Council (NRC) commit...

Fusion offers the prospect of virtually unlimited energy. The United States and many nations around the world have made enormous progress toward ac...

Active remote sensing is the principal tool used to study and to predict short- and long-term changes in the environment of Earth - the atmosphere,...

The electromagnetic spectrum is a vital part of our environment. Measures of radio frequency emissions from natural phenomena enable both practical...

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

High energy density (HED) science has critical applications for society from fusion energy to sustaining the US nuclear deterrent, while also contr...

NASA proposed to make a hardware contribution to the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission in exchange for U.S. membership on the Euclid S...

The National Research Council (NRC) has been conducting decadal surveys in the Earth and space sciences since 1964, and released the latest five su...

Biological physics, or the physics of living systems, has emerged fully as a field of physics, alongside more traditional fields of astrophysics an...

One of the major challenges in materials science today is developing materials that can survive and function in extreme environments, such as the h...

The radio frequency spectrum is a limited resource with ever increasing demand from an expansive range of applicationsall the way from commercial, ...

The passive, receive-only Radio Astronomy Service (RAS) and the Earth Exploration-Satellite Service (EESS) provide otherwise impossible scientific ...

Traditionally, the natural sciences have been divided into two branches: the biological sciences and the physical sciences. Today, an increasing nu...

Evaluation of the Implementation of WFIRST in the Context of New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics assesses whether the proposed A...

The past decade has delivered remarkable discoveries in the study of exoplanets. Hand-in-hand with these advances, a theoretical understanding of t...

The laser has revolutionized many areas of science and society, providing bright and versatile light sources that transform the ways we investigate...

Plasma Science and Engineering transforms fundamental scientific research into powerful societal applications, from materials processing and health...

Fusion energy offers the prospect of addressing the nation's energy needs and contributing to the transition to a low-carbon emission electrical ge...

The radio frequency spectrum is a limited resource for which there is an ever-increasing demand from an expansive range of applications - all the w...

The field of atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) science underpins many technologies and continues to progress at an exciting pace for both scient...