Author: National Academies of Sciences

Coral reef declines have been recorded for all major tropical ocean basins since the 1980s, averaging approximately 30-50% reductions in reef cover...

The world is transforming its energy system from one dominated by fossil fuel combustion to one with net-zero emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), th...

Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: Interim Report evaluates the general viability of the U.S. Department of Energy's...

In the last twenty years, citizen science has blossomed as a way to engage a broad range of individuals in doing science. Citizen science projects ...

On November 29-30, 2018, in Washington, D.C., the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held the Workshop on the Continuous Imp...

Every year roughly 100,000 fatal and injury crashes occur in the United States involving large trucks and buses. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety A...

Patterns of food consumption and nutritional intake strongly affect the population's health and well-being. The Food Economics Division of USDA's E...

Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United State...

In the United States, broad study in an array of different disciplines arts, humanities, science, mathematics, engineering as well as an in-depth s...

In September 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted at the United Nations Development Summit to serve as a 15-year plan of act...

To achieve goals for climate and economic growth, negative emissions technologies (NETs) that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will...

Engineering education is emerging as an important component of US K-12 education. Across the country, students in classrooms and after- and out-of-...

Resilient supply chains are crucial to maintaining the consistent delivery of goods and services to the American people. The modern economy has mad...

Among the many who serve in the United States Armed Forces and who are deployed to distant locations around the world, myriad health threats are en...

The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is a collection of 13 Federal entities charged by law to assist the United States and the world to u...

With the worst human refugee crisis since World War II as the backdrop, from March 16 through March 18, 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, E...

In July 2016 The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop with the goal of bringing together industrial and or...

A planning committee convened by the Forum on Microbial Threats of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a virtual wor...

Science and technology are embedded in virtually every aspect of modern life. As a result, people face an increasing need to integrate information ...

In November 2018, National Academy of Sciences (NAS) President Marcia McNutt visited China for the first time in her official role. As part of this...

According to the Government Accountability Office, sustainment of weapon systems accounts for approximately 70 percent of the total life-cycle cost...

On February 26, 2020, the Board on Health Sciences Policy of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a 1-day public wo...