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 ...