Author: National Academies of Sciences

In the U.S. criminal justice system in 2014, an estimated 2.2 million people were in incarcerated or under correctional supervision on any given da...

The term service-learning generally refers to projects planned as components of academic coursework in which students use knowledge and skills taug...

The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel & Readiness), referred to throughout this report as P&R, is responsible for the tot...

Hepatitis B and C cause most cases of hepatitis in the United States and the world. The two diseases account for about a million deaths a year and ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a mission and regulatory responsibility to protect human health and the environment. EPA's pursu...

U.S. strength in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines has formed the basis of innovations, technologies, and indust...

To examine the science, policy, and practice surrounding supporting family and community investments in young children globally and children in acu...

The continued presence of highly enriched uranium (HEU) in civilian installations such as research reactors poses a threat to national and internat...

The 2012 National Research Council report Continuing Innovation in Information Technology illustrates how fundamental research in information techn...

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

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 ...