Author: Division on Earth and Life Studies

Biokinetic modeling provides a mathematical technique for estimating absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of chemicals, including pa...

Precision medicine is focused on the individual and will require the rapid and accurate identification and prioritization of causative factors of d...

On June 27-28, 2018, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) convened an international workshop...

Coeur d'Alene Lake in northern Idaho is an invaluable natural, recreational, and economic resource for communities in Idaho and eastern Washington....

Oil and natural gas represent more than 50 percent of the worldwide energy supply, with high energy demand driven by population growth and improvin...

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

Safeguarding U.S. agriculture from foreign animal diseases and protecting our food system require cutting-edge research and diagnostic capabilities...

The predominant way of making steel in the United Sates is by using an electric arc furnace (EAF) to melt scrap steel, which results in the formati...

Steel is a common component of U.S. infrastructure, but that steel can corrode when buried in soil, rock, or fill. Steel corrosion is estimated to ...

Research on gene drive systems is rapidly advancing. Many proposed applications of gene drive research aim to solve environmental and public health...

Spurred on by new discoveries and rapid technological advances, the capacity for life science research is expanding across the globeand with it com...

When, in late 2011, it became public knowledge that two research groups had submitted for publication manuscripts that reported on their work on ma...

The Global Nuclear Detection Architecture (GNDA) is described as a worldwide network of sensors, telecommunications, and personnel, with the suppor...

Earth science, which in this context does not include oceanic, atmospheric, and space sciences, is vital to the wellbeing of the United States and ...

Increasing renewable energy development, both within the United States and abroad, has rekindled interest in the potential for marine and hydrokine...

A respected resource for decades, the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals has been updated by a committee of experts, taking into cons...

For more than 75 years, high-hazard structures in the U.S., including dams and nuclear power plants, have been engineered to withstand floods resul...

Research supported by scientific ocean drilling has fundamentally transformed our understanding of the planet with key contributions to the discove...

Biological collections are a critical part of the nation's science and innovation infrastructure and a fundamental resource for understanding the n...

Reliable, affordable, and technically recoverable energy is central to the nation's economic and social vitality. The United States is both a major...

Advances in the life sciences - from the human genome to biotechnology to personalized medicine and sustainable communities - have profound implica...

The stresses associated with climate change are expected to be felt keenly as human population grows to a projected 9 billion by the middle of this...

From the oceans to continental heartlands, human activities have altered the physical characteristics of Earth's surface. With Earth's population p...

Citrus greening, a disease that reduces yield, compromises the flavor, color, and size of citrus fruit and eventually kills the citrus tree, is now...

Science is increasingly driven by data, and spatial data underpin the science directions laid out in the 2007 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Science...

Evolution is the central unifying theme of biology. Yet today, more than a century and a half after Charles Darwin proposed the idea of evolution t...

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

Our world is changing at an accelerating rate. The global human population has grown from 6.1 billion to 7.1 billion in the last 15 years and is pr...

Most countries in the world use the SI (Système International, also known as the metric system) units for radiation measurements in commercial and ...

Undergraduate research has a rich history, and many practicing researchers point to undergraduate research experiences (UREs) as crucial to their o...

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is responsible for collecting informatio...

The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it means to be human, in...

Volcanic eruptions are common, with more than 50 volcanic eruptions in the United States alone in the past 31 years. These eruptions can have devas...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) mission is to provide reliable and impartial scientific information to understand Earth, minimize loss of life an...

Convergence-based research approaches are critical in solving many scientific challenges, which frequently draw on large teams of collaborators fro...

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

Convergence of the life sciences with fields including physical, chemical, mathematical, computational, engineering, and social sciences is a key s...

Oil and gas well completion and stimulation technologies to develop unconventional hydrocarbon resources in the United States have evolved over the...

In some coalbeds, naturally occurring water pressure holds methanethe main component of natural gasfixed to coal surfaces and within the coal. In a...

Through direct exploration of the subseafloor, U.S.-supported scientific ocean drilling programs have significantly contributed to a broad range of...

Marine mammals face a large array of stressors, including loss of habitat, chemical and noise pollution, and bycatch in fishing, which alone kills ...

Produced waterwater from underground formations that is brought to the surface during oil and gas productionis the greatest volume byproduct associ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a mission and regulatory responsibility to protect human health and the environment. EPA's pursu...

The continued presence of highly enriched uranium (HEU) in civilian installations such as research reactors poses a threat to national and internat...

Over the last decade, several large-scale United States and international programs have been initiated to incorporate advances in molecular and cel...

In 1943, as part of the Manhattan Project, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was established with the mission to produce plutonium for nuclear weapon...