Author: Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

The U.S. military does not believe its soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines should be engaged in combat with adversaries on a level playing field...

Assessment of Supercritical Water Oxidation System Testing for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant reviews and evaluates the resu...

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

Review of the Research Program of the U.S. DRIVE Partnership: Fourth Report follows on three previous NRC reviews of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partne...

Derelict satellites, equipment and other debris orbiting Earth (aka space junk) have been accumulating for many decades and could damage or even po...

NASA's space and Earth science program is composed of two principal components: spaceflight projects and mission-enabling activities. Most of the b...

The end of dramatic exponential growth in single-processor performance marks the end of the dominance of the single microprocessor in computing. Th...

The Committee on an Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives set forth to provid...

Advances in computing hardware and algorithms have dramatically improved the ability to simulate complex processes computationally. Today's simulat...

Biofuels made from algae are gaining attention as a domestic source of renewable fuel. However, with current technologies, scaling up production of...

The United States is in the midst of a major demographic shift. In the coming decades, people aged 65 and over will make up an increasingly large p...

Models are fundamental for estimating the possible costs and effectiveness of different policies for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. There...

Despite many advances, security and privacy often remain too complex for individuals or enterprises to manage effectively or to use conveniently. S...