Author: Engineering

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

Brain health affects Americans across all ages, genders, races, and ethnicities. Enriching the body of scientific knowledge around brain health and...

Medium- and heavy-duty trucks, motor coaches, and transit buses - collectively, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, or MHDVs - are used in every secto...

There is a void in evidence-based information for making informed decisions on how to optimize care for older adults, particularly those 80 years a...

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

Recommended intake levels for nutrients and other dietary components were designed initially to prevent nutrient deficiency diseases in a given pop...

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

While the COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating health and economic impacts in the United States, communities of color, especially Black communitie...

On December 5, 2017, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a public workshop titled Nutrigenomics and the Future of ...

The United States is facing an opioid use disorder epidemic with opioid overdoses killing 47,000 people in the U.S. in 2017. The past three decades...

Despite being preventable and curable since the middle of the twentieth century, tuberculosis (TB) has long persisted as the world's deadliest infe...

The U.S. Army is working on a major science and technology development program to build the Strategic Long Range Cannon to fire a hypersonic projec...

To take stock of lessons learned from COVID-19 around the world and in the United States, the Forum on Microbial Threats held two virtual workshops...

Autoimmune diseases occur when the body's immune system malfunctions and mistakenly attacks healthy cells, tissues, and organs. Strong data on the ...

Encryption is a process for making information unreadable by an adversary who does not possess a specific key that is required to make the encrypte...

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...

Patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) rely on family members, their community, and the health care system for pr...

Dietary assessment in older adults presents many unique problems due to the diversity of health states and capabilities that span the population gr...

Patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) studies consider the questions and outcomes that are meaningful to patients to compare the effectiveness ...

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

In October 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 1-day public workshop on Principles and Practices for Fed...

Despite the integral contribution of oral health to general health status, it continues to be treated as a marginalized and less important practice...

Consequences of natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic have taken a cumulative toll on the health and well-being of people in the Gulf of Mexi...

The next decade of planetary science and astrobiology holds tremendous promise. New research will expand our understanding of our solar system's or...

Those involved in the drug development process face challenges of efficiency and overall sustainability due in part to high research costs, lengthy...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the lives of children and their families, who have faced innumerable challenges such as il...

The Roundtable on Obesity Solutions of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop in Washington, DC, on April 6,...

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...

One of the major challenges in materials science today is developing materials that can survive and function in extreme environments, such as the h...

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

Black men are increasingly underrepresented in medical schools and in the medical profession. A diverse workforce is a key attribute of quality hea...

Since 1938 and 1941, nutrient intake recommendations have been issued to the public in Canada and the United States, respectively. Currently define...