Author: National Academies of Sciences

Facial recognition technology is increasingly used for identity verification and identification, from aiding law enforcement investigations to iden...

Experiencing poverty during childhood can lead to lasting harmful effects that compromise not only children's health and welfare but can also hinde...

The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) is one of the U.S. Census Bureau's major surveys with features making it a uniquely valuable ...

Antarctica hosts some of the harshest and most remote environments on Earth - and it is a region of vital importance for scientific research. The e...

Although much research has been conducted on community-level factors related to the risk of dementia in general, less is known about the factors th...

In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamen...

Existing systems are not prepared to provide the mental health care services needed by the growing population of older adults. The National Academi...

The National Academies National Cancer Policy Forum hosted a Summer 2022 workshop to explore the current state of knowledge regarding risk factors ...

The transition to renewable energy has spurred many efforts to scale up the U.S. portfolio of efficient clean energy resources, including the devel...

Beginning in 1979 and in each subsequent decades, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has overseen the Healthy People initiative...

More than 100 U.S. institutions of higher education hosted Confucius Institutes (CIs), Chinese government-funded language and culture centers, on c...

Many young children in the United States are thriving and have access to the conditions and resources they need to grow up healthy. However, a subs...

Decades of continuous efforts to address known hazards in the national airspace system (NAS) and to respond to issues illuminated by analysis of in...

Nonhuman primates represent a small fraction of animals used in biomedical research, but they remain important research models due to their similar...

In September 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a workshop to explore the basic and translational research ...

Nurses make up the largest segment of the health care profession, with 3 million registered nurses in the United States. Nurses work in a wide vari...

Schools, workplaces, businesses, and even homes are places where someone could be subjected to particulate matter (PM) a mixture of solid particle...

The National Academies Roundtable on Obesity Solutions hosted an April, July, and October, 2022 workshop series to explore the gaps in knowledge wi...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, research demonstrated a significant impact of family caregiving responsibilities on the careers of professionals who ...

In recent years, significant progress has been made in the clinical development and use of various types of cancer immunotherapy, all of which rely...