Author: Engineering

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...