Author: National Academies of Sciences

The responsible management of natural resources for present-day needs and future generations requires integrated approaches that are place-based, e...

Note: This is the French translation of Recent Fertility Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa. Fertility rates and population growth influence economic dev...

This is the fourth in a series of five letter reports that provide an independent review of the more than 30 evidence reports that NASA has compile...

Over the last decade, several large-scale United States and international programs have been initiated to incorporate advances in molecular and cel...

Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familywhich includes all primary caregiversare at the f...

Large catastrophic events, or rare acute events, may cause situations in which a local jurisdiction's medicines and medical supplies are not suffic...

In 1943, as part of the Manhattan Project, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was established with the mission to produce plutonium for nuclear weapon...

Health literacy is a critical skill for engaging in healthy behaviors to reduce disease risk and improve health outcomes across the continuum of ca...

Leadership in gas turbine technologies is of continuing importance as the value of gas turbine production is projected to grow substantially by 203...

The Earth system - the atmospheric, hydrologic, geologic, and biologic cycles that circulate energy, water, nutrients, and other trace substances -...

Scholars, policymakers, and the public view police legitimacy and community trust in the police alike as essential components of an effective polic...

The NASA Science Mission Directorate/Earth Science Division's (SMD/ESD's) Earth Venture (EV) is a program element within the Earth System Science P...

The COVID-19 pandemic and overlapping global crises, including geopolitical conflict and climate change, have made achievement of the United Nation...

Topology optimization is a digital method for designing objects in order to achieve the best structural performance, sometimes in combination with ...

The Manufacturing USA initiative seeks to reinforce U.S.-based advanced manufacturing through partnerships among industry, academia, and government...

Improved observations of the atmospheric boundary layer (BL) and its interactions with the ocean, land, and ice surfaces have great potential to ad...

In the 1970s, flame retardants began to be added to synthetic materials to meet strict flammability standards. Over the years, diverse flame retard...

Vehicle weight reduction is an effective strategy for reducing fuel consumption in civilian vehicles. For combat vehicles, it presents not only an ...

In the quest to mitigate the buildup of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere, researchers and policymakers have increasingly turned their attenti...

To better support the need for timely, effective manufacturing technology development and transition, the Department of Defense (DoD) has establish...

Quantum concepts hold the potential to enable significant advances in sensing and imaging technologies that could be vital to the study of biologic...

The Roundtable on Obesity Solutions of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a virtual workshop on September 16, 2020 ...

Chemistry plays a pivotal role in the strength of the U.S. economy and the advancement of humankind. Chemists' achievements include life-saving pha...

The number of Black students in science, engineering, and medicine in the United States has remained disproportionately low over the past several d...

Emerging real-time data sources, together with innovative data science techniques and methods - including artificial intelligence and machine learn...

Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, with petroleum accounting for 90 percent of transportation f...

Since around 1980, fewer Americans than before are doing better than their parents had that is, more are experiencing downward social and economic...

U.S. leadership in technology innovation is central to our nation's interests, including its security, economic prosperity, and quality of life. Ou...

Land-grant colleges and universities play a crucial role in addressing the complex challenges facing the U.S. agricultural system and global food s...

The U.S. system of graduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has served the nation and its science and enginee...

During the 2016 presidential election, America's election infrastructure was targeted by actors sponsored by the Russian government. Securing the V...

In 2014, the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) engaged the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a pla...

The Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine was convened in 1940 in response to a request f...

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) - often called The Nation's Report Card - is the largest nationally representative and conti...

Despite the changing demographics of the nation and a growing appreciation for diversity and inclusion as drivers of excellence in science, enginee...

Information technology (IT) is widely understood to be the enabling technology of the 21st century. IT has transformed, and continues to transform,...

A convergent manufacturing platform is defined as a system that synergistically combines heterogeneous materials and processes (e.g., additive, sub...

Satellite remote sensing is the primary tool for measuring global changes in the land, ocean, biosphere, and atmosphere. Over the past three decade...

On September 16, 2019, the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions of the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, ...

Biomedical research results in the collection and storage of increasingly large and complex data sets. Preserving those data so that they are disco...

Wildland fires pose a growing threat to air quality and human health. Fire is a natural part of many landscapes, but the extent of area burned and ...

Radioactive Sources: Applications and Alternative Technologies assesses the status of medical, research, sterilization, and other commercial applic...

The needs and demands placed on science to address a range of urgent problems are growing. The world is faced with complex, interrelated challenges...

The U.S. space science community includes thousands of scientists across multiple disciplines that influence and are influenced by the many enginee...

In recent decades, production processes of intermediate and final products have been increasingly fragmented across countries in what are called gl...