Author: Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

The field of corrosion science and engineering is on the threshold of important advances. Advances in lifetime prediction and technological solutio...

The United States military is arguably the most intensely technological, complex enterprise in existence. When compared to the gross domestic produ...

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

The Planning Committee on Connector Reliability for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations held the Workshop on Bolting Reliability for Offshore O...

Recent advancements in quantum-enabled systems present a variety of new opportunities and challenges. These technologies are important developments...

The Intelligence Community Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop on August 9-10, 2017 ...

Following an earlier NRC workshop on public response to alerts and warnings delivered to mobile devices, a related workshop was held on February 2...

The development and application of technology has been an essential part of U.S. airpower, leading to a century of air supremacy. But that developm...

The public-private partnership to develop vehicles that require less petroleum-based fuel and emit fewer greenhouse gases should continue to includ...

In recent years, planetary science has seen a tremendous growth in new knowledge. Deposits of water ice exist at the Moon's poles. Discoveries on t...

Changes in the 21st century security environment require new analytic approaches to support strategic deterrence. Because current adversaries may b...

Software update is an important mechanism by which security changes and improvements are made in software, and this seemingly simple concept encomp...

In 1972 NASA launched the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ETRS), now known as Landsat 1, and on February 11, 2013 launched Landsat 8. Current...

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...

The nanotechnology sector, which generated about $225 billion in product sales in 2009, is predicted to expand rapidly over the next decade with th...

On June 15, 2011, the Air Force Space Command established a new vision, mission, and set of goals to ensure continued U.S. dominance in space and c...

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

Computing in some form touches nearly every aspect of day to day life and is reflected in the ubiquitous use of cell phones, the expansion of autom...

The field of computer science (CS) is currently experiencing a surge in undergraduate degree production and course enrollments, which is straining ...

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

The United States spends approximately $4 million each year searching for near-Earth objects (NEOs). The objective is to detect those that may coll...

The Forum on Cyber Resilience of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted the Workshop on Recoverability as a First-Cla...

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

Improving State Voter Registration Databases outlines several actions that are needed to help make voter registration databases capable of sharing ...

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

The Transportation Security Administration requested a study by the National Research Council (NRC) to establish the Committee on Airport Passenger...

Emerging techniques in data analytics, including machine learning and artificial intelligence, offer exciting opportunities for advancing scientifi...

The United States is currently the only country with an active, government-sponsored effort to detect and track potentially hazardous near-Earth ob...

Advances in materials science and engineering play a crucial role in supporting the U.S. economy and national security. To maintain its leading edg...

Following a series of natural disasters, including Hurricane Katrina, that revealed shortcomings in the nation's ability to effectively alert popul...

The Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure standing and planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medi...

Digital health encompasses a broad array of tools and strategies with the goals of advancing research, increasing health care access and quality, a...

Commercially significant amounts of crude oil and natural gas lie under the continental shelf of the United States. Advances in locating deposits, ...

High-entropy materials, ultra-strong molecules, and nanoelectronics have become a focus of active research because of their unique potential and ap...

Facial recognition technology is increasingly used for identity verification and identification, from aiding law enforcement investigations to iden...

Additive manufacturing has the potential to positively affect human spaceflight operations by enabling the in-orbit manufacture of replacement part...