Author: Board on Physics and Astronomy

Adapting to a Changing World was commissioned by the National Science Foundation to examine the present status of undergraduate physics education, ...

The scientific and technological progress in inertial confinement fusion has been substantial during the past decade. However, many of the technolo...

New astronomical facilities, such as the under-construction Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and planned 30-meter-class telescopes, and new instrume...

Driven by discoveries, and enabled by leaps in technology and imagination, our understanding of the universe has changed dramatically during the co...

Every 10 years the National Research Council releases a survey of astronomy and astrophysics outlining priorities for the coming decade. The most r...

According to the big bang theory, our Universe began in a state of unimaginably high energy and density, contained in a space of subatomic dimensio...

Current von Neumann style computing is energy inefficient and bandwidth limited as information is physically shuttled via electrons between process...

Helium has long been the subject of public policy deliberation and management, largely because of its many strategic uses and its unusual source-it...

Modern materials science builds on knowledge from physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, computer and data science, and engineering sciences to ...

On May 18-19, 2021, the Condensed Matter and Materials Research Committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened...