Author: Engineering

During the past century, the Everglades, one of the world's treasured ecosystems, has been dramatically altered by drainage and water management in...

The search for life is one of the most active fields in space science and involves a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including planetary sc...

For the United States, the 1991 Persian Gulf War was a brief and successful military operation with few injuries and deaths. However, soon after re...

The surface of the human body and its mucous membranes are heavily colonized by microorganisms. Our understanding of the contributions that complex...

Demand for tech professionals is expected to increase substantially over the next decade, and increasing the number of women of color in tech will ...

At the request of the U.S. Army, the Board on Army Research and Development of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conduc...

Transplantation of a solid organ, such as a kidney, heart, or liver, is a lifesaving procedure and is sometimes the only viable treatment for patie...

A pressing challenge in the modern health care system is the gap between education and clinical practice. Emerging technologies have the potential ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a public workshop in September 2017 to explore the evidence for achieving gl...

NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) currently operates over five dozen missions, with approximately two dozen additional missions in developme...

The Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is the corporate laboratory for the U.S. army, which bridges scientific and military communities. The ARL is cri...

What foods should Americans eat to promote their health, and in what amounts? What is the scientific evidence that supports specific recommendation...

High-quality primary care is the foundation of the health care system. It provides continuous, person-centered, relationship-based care that consid...

A Research Strategy to Examine the Taxonomy of the Red Wolf provides independent guidance about taxonomic research on the red wolf, Canis rufus. B...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop on August 22-23, 2018, in Washington, DC, to explore medical and publ...

Scientists strive to develop clear rules for naming and grouping living organisms. But taxonomy, the scientific study of biological classification ...

The increasing prevalence and burden of obesity transcends borders, straining populations worldwide. Data shows that 50 million girls, 74 million b...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) with a focus on procuring and managing medi...

Alcohol-impaired driving is an important health and social issue as it remains a major risk to Americans' health today, surpassing deaths per year ...

In 2002 Congress passed the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (ESRA), authorizing the creation of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) as ...

The aging population of the United States has significant implications for the workforce - challenging what it means to work and to retire in the U...

In 2022, the United States installed its first exascale computing system for the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, with an National Nuc...

Individuals from minoritized racial and ethnic groups continue to face systemic barriers that impede their ability to access, persist, and thrive i...

Behavioral economics - a field based in collaborations among economists and psychologists - focuses on integrating a nuanced understanding of behav...

Psychiatric illnesses - such as major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, substance use disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - are...

The Food Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a virtual workshop, Challenges and Opportunities for Preci...

On August 1 and 2, 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a public workshop in Washington, DC, on sustainable d...

Solving the world's health challenges requires multidisciplinary collaborations that bring together the talents, experiences, resources, and ideas ...

Globalization is rapidly changing lives and industries around the world. Drug development, authorization, and regulatory supervision have become in...

This midcourse report provides an initial assessment of how the process used to develop the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025 (DGA) compa...

Graduate medical education (GME) is critical to the career development of individual physicians, to the functioning of many teaching institutions, ...

Academic preparation is critical to increase Black representation in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, but so, too, are such interrelated factors...

The critical importance of using mobile technology is clear to anyone in the health professions, particularly those who treat people with central n...

Individuals in the United States and Americans abroad are exposed to inhalation hazards from a variety of sources, and these hazards can have both ...

Humans are potentially exposed to more than 80,000 toxic chemicals in the environment, yet their impacts on brain health and disease are not well u...

Every year, significant amounts of expensive drugs are discarded. This is due in part to the growing number of prescription drugs that are administ...

Electric power is essential for the lives and livelihoods of all Americans, and the need for electricity that is safe, clean, affordable, and relia...

BioWatch is the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) system for detecting an aerosolized biological attack using collectors that are positione...