Author: Engineering

From daily commutes to cross-country road trips, millions of light-duty vehicles are on the road every day. The transportation sector is one of the...

Throughout history, perhaps no other disease has generated the level of social, scientific, and political discourse or has had the degree of cultur...

Healthy mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) development is a critical foundation for a productive adulthood. Much is known about strategies to ...

The 2011 National Research Council decadal survey on biological and physical sciences in space, Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration: Life an...

Every ten years, the Department of Health and Human Service's Healthy People Initiative develops a new set of science-based, national objectives wi...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issues standards regulations for energy conservation pursuant to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975...

Mentorship is a catalyst capable of unleashing one's potential for discovery, curiosity, and participation in STEMM and subsequently improving the ...

In 2002, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched the Pharmaceutical Quality for the 21st Century Initiative to encourage adoption of i...

Modern geoscience research informs many important decisions and projects, such as geological disaster preparation, natural resource extraction, and...

The border region shared by the United States and Mexico is currently experiencing multiple crises on both sides that present challenges to safegua...

In an increasingly interconnected world, perhaps it should come as no surprise that international collaboration in science and technology research ...

The drylands region shared by the United States and Mexico currently faces multiple sustainability challenges at the intersection of the human and ...

Adolescence is a dynamic time for both brain development and social pressures, making it a critical period to understand mental, emotional, and beh...

There are over 20 million young people of color in the United States whose representation in STEM education pathways and in the STEM workforce is s...

With rapidly rising rates of mental health disorders, changing patterns of occurrence, and increasing levels of morbidity, the need for a better un...

Modern software engineering practices, pioneered by the commercial software community, have begun transforming Department of Defense (DoD) software...

There are many reasons to be curious about the way people learn, and the past several decades have seen an explosion of research that has important...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held the workshop Applying Big Data to Address the Social Determinants of Health in O...

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges to the nation's K-12 education system. The rush to slow the spread of the virus led to...

The past decade has delivered remarkable discoveries in the study of exoplanets. Hand-in-hand with these advances, a theoretical understanding of t...

One of the holy grails in biology is the ability to predict functional characteristics from an organism's genetic sequence. Despite decades of rese...

On March 21, 2019, the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 1-da...

On November 18 and 19, 2019, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a public workshop in Washington, DC, titled Shari...

Rural America is economically, socially, culturally, geographically, and demographically diverse. This multidimensional diversity presents complex ...

When discussing the risk of introducing drones into the National Airspace System, it is necessary to consider the increase in risk to people in man...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has played a key role over the past several decades in advancing understanding of Earth's systems by funding ...

The laser has revolutionized many areas of science and society, providing bright and versatile light sources that transform the ways we investigate...

In September 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board convened a workshop in Washington, DC, ...

Women in the United States and Kuwait have made advances as researchers and leaders in science, engineering, and medical disciplines, yet challenge...

More than 3.7 million U.S. service members have participated in operations taking place in the Southwest Asia Theater of Military Operations since ...

Suicide prevention initiatives are part of much broader systems connected to activities such as the diagnosis of mental illness, the recognition of...

Flooding is the natural hazard with the greatest economic and social impact in the United States, and these impacts are becoming more severe over t...

In the wake of a large-scale disaster, from the initial devastation through the long tail of recovery, protecting the health and well-being of the ...

Trichloroethylene (TCE) is a solvent that is used as a degreasing agent, a chemical intermediate in refrigerant manufacture, and a component of spo...

We live on a dynamic Earth shaped by both natural processes and the impacts of humans on their environment. It is in our collective interest to obs...

To explore how mobile technology can be employed to enhance the lives of older adults, the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences of ...

In response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the societal disruption it has brought, national governments and the internatio...

The COVID-19 pandemic is resulting in widespread and ongoing changes to how the K-12 education system functions, including disruptions to science t...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a genetic condition that affects approximately 100,000 people in the United States and millions more globally. Individ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in collaboration with the InterAcademy Partnership and the European Academies Science...

Research and innovation in the life sciences is driving rapid growth in agriculture, biomedical science, information science and computing, energy,...

The Board on Science Education and the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicin...

Young people develop health literacy skills in a variety of environments, facing critical thinking challenges about their health from school, home ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved dozens of hormone therapy products for men and women, including estrogen, progesterone, te...

Recommendations for feeding infants and young children have changed substantially over time owing to scientific advances, cultural influences, soci...

For many years, laboratory dogs have served as important animal models for biomedical research that has advanced human health. Conducted at the req...

In response to a request from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, ...

The United States is formally represented around the world by approximately 14,000 Foreign Service officers and other personnel in the U.S. Departm...