Author: Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is responsible for the stewardship of the nation's living marine resources and their habitat. As part ...

Questions about the reproducibility of scientific research have been raised in numerous settings and have gained visibility through several high-pr...

In February 2009, the commercial communications satellite Iridium 33 collided with the Russian military communications satellite Cosmos 2251. The c...

In a world of increasing dependence on information technology, the prevention of cyberattacks on a nation's important computer and communications s...

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

Report of a Workshop on the Scope and Nature of Computational Thinking presents a number of perspectives on the definition and applicability of com...

The Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) is under construction near Richmond, Kentucky, two dispose of one of the two remaini...

This book presents a summary of the Workshop on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices: Current Knowledge and Research Gaps, held...

For a century, almost all light-duty vehicles (LDVs) have been powered by internal combustion engines operating on petroleum fuels. Energy securit...

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

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) provides biennial asse...

At the request of the Advisory Committee for Geosciences of the National Science Foundation (NSF), a review of the Geospace Section of the NSF Divi...

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are engineered systems that are built from, and depend upon, the seamless integration of computational algorithms and ...

Nanoscale science, engineering, and technology, often referred to simply as nanotechnology, is the understanding, characterization, and control of ...

It is not yet 60 years since the first artificial satellite was placed into Earth orbit. In just over a half century, mankind has gone from no pres...

The future security, economic growth, and competitiveness of the United States depend on its capacity to innovate. Major sources of innovative capa...

NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is engaged in the final stages of a comprehensive, agency-wide effort to develop a new strategic plan at a...

Review of the Research Program of the U.S. DRIVE Partnership: Fifth Report follows on four previous reviews of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership,...

Attaining meaningful cybersecurity presents a broad societal challenge. Its complexity and the range of systems and sectors in which it is needed m...

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 three National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) national security laboratoriesLos Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Lawrence Livermore N...