Author: National Academies of Sciences

The United States has deployed commercial nuclear power since the 1950s, and as of 2021, nuclear power accounts for approximately 20 percent of U.S...

The COVID-19 pandemic spurred a rapid expansion of wastewater-based infectious disease surveillance systems to monitor and anticipate disease trend...

Over the last three decades, there have been fundamental shifts in the electricity system, including the growing adoption of clean distributed gene...

The marmoset, a type of small monkey native to South America, is a research model of increasing importance for biomedical research in the United St...

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

Even as malnutrition in the form of hunger and obesity affect the health and well-being of millions of people worldwide, a significant amount of fo...

During public health emergencies (PHEs) involving chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear threats or emerging infectious diseases, medical c...

A growing body of research indicates that social determinants of health have a significant impact on health care utilization and outcomes. Research...

In spring 2011 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine produced a report outlining the next decade in planetary sciences. Tha...

Since the 1980s, national and international planetary protection policies have sought to avoid contamination by terrestrial organisms that could co...

The Edwards Aquifer in south-central Texas is the primary source of water for one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, San Antonio, ...

In November 2018, an ad hoc planning committee at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine planned two sister workshops held i...

Antimicrobial resistance is a health problem that threatens to undermine almost a century of medical progress. Moreover, it is a global problem tha...

The National Academies Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education hosted a Fall 2022 workshop series to explore the various needs ...

Responding to climate change will entail massive socio-emotional and behavioral changes. Translating policies, investments, or built infrastructure...

Research in biological and physical sciences in space provides the critical scientific and technological foundations that make space exploration po...

The world confronts an existential challenge in responding to climate change, resulting in an urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from a...

The Roman Space Telescope will measurably advance knowledge of dark energy and exoplanet demographics. Locally, it will likely enhance understandin...

Climate change, driven by increases in human-produced greenhouse gases and particles (collectively referred to as GHGs), is the most serious enviro...

This proceedings summarizes the presentations and discussions at the Workshop on the 2020 Census Demographic and Housing Characteristics File, held...

The Roundtable on Population Health Improvement of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop at Hunter Coll...