Author: Engineering

The transition to renewable energy has spurred many efforts to scale up the U.S. portfolio of efficient clean energy resources, including the devel...

Beginning in 1979 and in each subsequent decades, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has overseen the Healthy People initiative...

More than 100 U.S. institutions of higher education hosted Confucius Institutes (CIs), Chinese government-funded language and culture centers, on c...

Many young children in the United States are thriving and have access to the conditions and resources they need to grow up healthy. However, a subs...

Decades of continuous efforts to address known hazards in the national airspace system (NAS) and to respond to issues illuminated by analysis of in...

Nonhuman primates represent a small fraction of animals used in biomedical research, but they remain important research models due to their similar...

In September 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a workshop to explore the basic and translational research ...

Nurses make up the largest segment of the health care profession, with 3 million registered nurses in the United States. Nurses work in a wide vari...

Schools, workplaces, businesses, and even homes are places where someone could be subjected to particulate matter (PM) a mixture of solid particle...

The National Academies Roundtable on Obesity Solutions hosted an April, July, and October, 2022 workshop series to explore the gaps in knowledge wi...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, research demonstrated a significant impact of family caregiving responsibilities on the careers of professionals who ...

In recent years, significant progress has been made in the clinical development and use of various types of cancer immunotherapy, all of which rely...