Author: National Academies of Sciences

Educating dual language learners (DLLs) and English learners (ELs) effectively is a national challenge with consequences both for individuals and f...

Research on gene drive systems is rapidly advancing. Many proposed applications of gene drive research aim to solve environmental and public health...

For more than 75 years, high-hazard structures in the U.S., including dams and nuclear power plants, have been engineered to withstand floods resul...

Since the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in early 2020, many individuals infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, s...

Vaccines are a public health success story, as they have prevented or lessened the effects of many infectious diseases. To address concerns around ...

Many federal agencies provide data and statistics on inequality and related aspects of household income, consumption, and wealth (ICW). However, be...

Interest in decarbonizing various sectors of the U.S. economy has produced a rich body of scholarly research, policy studies, and practitioner repo...

The use of immune modulator therapeutics, a type of immunotherapy enhancing the body immune system response to cancer, was perceived as the beginni...

Research supported by scientific ocean drilling has fundamentally transformed our understanding of the planet with key contributions to the discove...

Pain is both a symptom and a disease. It manifests in multiple forms and its treatment is complex. Physical, social, economic, and emotional conseq...

Biological collections are a critical part of the nation's science and innovation infrastructure and a fundamental resource for understanding the n...

Reliable, affordable, and technically recoverable energy is central to the nation's economic and social vitality. The United States is both a major...

Global advances in medicine, food, water, energy, microelectronics, communications, defense, and other important sectors of the economy are increas...

Approximately 30 percent of the edible food produced in the United States is wasted and a significant portion of this waste occurs at the consumer ...

The imperative that all students, including English learners (ELs), achieve high academic standards and have opportunities to participate in scienc...

The social cost of carbon (SC-CO2) is an economic metric intended to provide a comprehensive estimate of the net damages - that is, the monetized v...

Questions about the reproducibility of scientific research have been raised in numerous settings and have gained visibility through several high-pr...

Although people in the United States have historically been reasonably supportive of federal censuses and surveys, they are increasingly unavailabl...

The process of discovering and developing a new drug or therapy is extremely costly and time consuming, and recently, it has been estimated that th...

Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregiv...

Because of the role of innovation as a driver of economic productivity and growth and as a mechanism for improving people's well-being in other way...

Evidence from the public health sector demonstrates that health care is only one of the determinants of health, which also include genes, behavior,...

Recent health care payment reforms aim to improve the alignment of Medicare payment strategies with goals to improve the quality of care provided, ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) provides biennial asse...

At the request of the Advisory Committee for Geosciences of the National Science Foundation (NSF), a review of the Geospace Section of the NSF Divi...

Our world is changing at an accelerating rate. The global human population has grown from 6.1 billion to 7.1 billion in the last 15 years and is pr...

Most countries in the world use the SI (Système International, also known as the metric system) units for radiation measurements in commercial and ...

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are engineered systems that are built from, and depend upon, the seamless integration of computational algorithms and ...

Undergraduate research has a rich history, and many practicing researchers point to undergraduate research experiences (UREs) as crucial to their o...

Nanoscale science, engineering, and technology, often referred to simply as nanotechnology, is the understanding, characterization, and control of ...

Cardiac arrest often strikes seemingly healthy individuals without warning and without regard to age, gender, race, or health status. Representing ...

Countering violent extremism consists of various prevention and intervention approaches to increase the resilience of communities and individuals t...

Additive manufacturing (AM) methods have great potential for promoting transformative research in many fields across the vast spectrum of engineeri...