Author: Engineering

An international consensus policy to prevent the biological cross-contamination of planetary bodies exists and is maintained by the Committee on Sp...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two programs that provide benefits based on disability: the Social Security Disability Insuran...

The radio frequency spectrum is a limited resource with ever increasing demand from an expansive range of applicationsall the way from commercial, ...

The history of the U.S. criminal justice system is marked by racial inequality and sustained by present day policy. Large racial and ethnic dispari...

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 ...

In response to a request from Congress, the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conducted...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Obesity Solutions convened a three-part workshop series that explored...

COVID-19 has proven among the worst public health crises in a generation. Public health emergencies (PHE) have always been anticipated. Despite the...

The widespread adoption of electric vehicles will play a critical role in decarbonizing the transportation sector as the nation moves toward net-ze...

On December 7 and 8, 2020, the Roundtable on Black Men and Black Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences,...

As the demographics of the United States shift toward a population that is made up of an increasing percentage of older adults and people with disa...

With the amount of data in the world exploding, big data could generate significant value in the field of infectious disease. The increased use of ...

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) began 40 years ago as a pilot program and has since grown to serv...

Educating dual language learners (DLLs) and English learners (ELs) effectively is a national challenge with consequences both for individuals and f...

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

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...

Since the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in early 2020, many individuals infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, s...

Vaccines are a public health success story, as they have prevented or lessened the effects of many infectious diseases. To address concerns around ...

Many federal agencies provide data and statistics on inequality and related aspects of household income, consumption, and wealth (ICW). However, be...

Interest in decarbonizing various sectors of the U.S. economy has produced a rich body of scholarly research, policy studies, and practitioner repo...

The use of immune modulator therapeutics, a type of immunotherapy enhancing the body immune system response to cancer, was perceived as the beginni...

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

Pain is both a symptom and a disease. It manifests in multiple forms and its treatment is complex. Physical, social, economic, and emotional conseq...

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...

Global advances in medicine, food, water, energy, microelectronics, communications, defense, and other important sectors of the economy are increas...

Approximately 30 percent of the edible food produced in the United States is wasted and a significant portion of this waste occurs at the consumer ...

The imperative that all students, including English learners (ELs), achieve high academic standards and have opportunities to participate in scienc...

The social cost of carbon (SC-CO2) is an economic metric intended to provide a comprehensive estimate of the net damages - that is, the monetized v...

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

Although people in the United States have historically been reasonably supportive of federal censuses and surveys, they are increasingly unavailabl...

The process of discovering and developing a new drug or therapy is extremely costly and time consuming, and recently, it has been estimated that th...

Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregiv...

Because of the role of innovation as a driver of economic productivity and growth and as a mechanism for improving people's well-being in other way...