Author: Engineering

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...

In the United States, broad study in an array of different disciplines arts, humanities, science, mathematics, engineering as well as an in-depth s...

In September 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted at the United Nations Development Summit to serve as a 15-year plan of act...

To achieve goals for climate and economic growth, negative emissions technologies (NETs) that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will...

Engineering education is emerging as an important component of US K-12 education. Across the country, students in classrooms and after- and out-of-...

Resilient supply chains are crucial to maintaining the consistent delivery of goods and services to the American people. The modern economy has mad...

Among the many who serve in the United States Armed Forces and who are deployed to distant locations around the world, myriad health threats are en...

The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is a collection of 13 Federal entities charged by law to assist the United States and the world to u...

With the worst human refugee crisis since World War II as the backdrop, from March 16 through March 18, 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, E...

In July 2016 The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop with the goal of bringing together industrial and or...

A planning committee convened by the Forum on Microbial Threats of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a virtual wor...