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To draw attention to health determinants and health inequities among populations that live in urban environments and to explore challenges faced in...

New York City's municipal water supply system provides about 1 billion gallons of drinking water a day to over 8.5 million people in New York City ...

Millions of people are living with dementia in the United States and globally. To live well with dementia, people need care, services, and supports...

Temporomandibular disorders (TMDs), are a set of more than 30 health disorders associated with both the temporomandibular joints and the muscles an...

Consumer genomics, encompassing both direct-to-consumer applications (i.e., genetic testing that is accessed by a consumer directly from a commerci...

The National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a virtual workshop in March 2021 to exam...

Plasma Science and Engineering transforms fundamental scientific research into powerful societal applications, from materials processing and health...

On March 22, 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop to examine the collaboration between the faith...

Understanding, quantifying, and tracking atmospheric methane and emissions is essential for addressing concerns and informing decisions that affect...

Widely available, trustworthy government statistics are essential for policy makers and program administrators at all levels of government, for pri...

In 1943, as part of the Manhattan Project, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was established with the mission to produce plutonium for nuclear weapon...

Legionnaires' disease, a pneumonia caused by the Legionella bacterium, is the leading cause of reported waterborne disease outbreaks in the United ...

In late 2016, U.S. Embassy personnel in Havana, Cuba, began to report the development of an unusual set of symptoms and clinical signs. For some of...

A virtual workshop series titled Approaches to Assessing Intake of Food and Dietary Supplements in Pregnant Women and Children 2 to 11 Years of Age...

Disparities in educational attainment among population groups have characterized the United States throughout its history. Education is sometimes c...

Fusion energy offers the prospect of addressing the nation's energy needs and contributing to the transition to a low-carbon emission electrical ge...

Solving problems related to use of water resources will be of paramount importance in coming decades as increasing pressure from growing population...

The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, whic...

On September 14, 2017, the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a ...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) manages the energy and mineral resources on the outer continental shelf. BOEM's environmental program,...

Coral reefs are critical to ocean and human life because they provide food, living area, storm protection, tourism income, and more. However, human...

While the public is generally aware of the use of hydraulic fracturing for unconventional resource development onshore, it is less familiar with th...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies have conducted activities to develop atomic energy for civilian and defense purpos...

The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2017 contained a request for a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine rev...

The frequency and severity of disasters over the last few decades have presented unprecedented challenges for communities across the United States....

The American chestnut, whitebark pine, and several species of ash in the eastern United States are just a few of the North American tree species th...

Sediments, ice, corals, and trees are just some of the natural storehouses of information that help tell the complicated history of Earth's climate...

Modern science is ever more driven by computations and simulations. In particular, the state of the art in space and Earth science often arises fro...

Advanced aerial mobility is a newly emerging industry that aims to develop and operate new air vehicles potentially capable of safe, reliable, and ...

To effectively mature and transition DoD manufacturing science and technology advances into production, DoD must have access to a robust and respon...

During the 20th century, the city of Los Angeles diverted surface water flowing into Owens Lake for water supply, transforming the large, closed-ba...

Openness and sharing of information are fundamental to the progress of science and to the effective functioning of the research enterprise. The adv...

To explore issues related to community-driven power-building efforts to improve population health, the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement ...

Children are the foundation of the United States, and supporting them is a key component of building a successful future. However, millions of chil...

Among the various segments of society affected by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year and a half, few were hit as hard as the aviation industr...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop on February 4th and 5th, 2021 to review the issues related to saf...

Coral reef declines have been recorded for all major tropical ocean basins since the 1980s, averaging approximately 30-50% reductions in reef cover...

The world is transforming its energy system from one dominated by fossil fuel combustion to one with net-zero emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), th...

Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: Interim Report evaluates the general viability of the U.S. Department of Energy's...

In the last twenty years, citizen science has blossomed as a way to engage a broad range of individuals in doing science. Citizen science projects ...

On November 29-30, 2018, in Washington, D.C., the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held the Workshop on the Continuous Imp...

Every year roughly 100,000 fatal and injury crashes occur in the United States involving large trucks and buses. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety A...

Patterns of food consumption and nutritional intake strongly affect the population's health and well-being. The Food Economics Division of USDA's E...

Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United State...