Author: National Academies of Sciences

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is one of the United States' leading federal science, technology, engineering, and mathema...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Population Health Improvement has been focused on the subject of dep...

New York City's water supply system is one of the oldest, largest, and most complex in the nation. It delivers more than 1.1 billion gallons of wat...

Technological advances in noninvasive neuroimaging, neurophysiology, genome sequencing, and other methods together with rapid progress in computati...

America's farms and farmers are integral to the U.S. economy and, more broadly, to the nation's social and cultural fabric. A healthy agricultural ...

Climate assessment activities are increasingly driven by subnational organizationscity, county, and state governments; utilities and private compan...

Oral health care and medical health care both seek to maintain and enhance human health and well-being. Yet, dentistry and primary care in the Unit...

Emerging economies, social and political transitions, and new ways of doing business are changing the world dramatically. To be the leader in this ...

On June 11 and June 12, 2019, the National Academies convened a workshop to explore the growing understanding of how the interplay between humans a...

For nearly a century, scientific advances have fueled progress in U.S. agriculture to enable American producers to deliver safe and abundant food d...

Data science is emerging as a field that is revolutionizing science and industries alike. Work across nearly all domains is becoming more data driv...

To explore the role of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in innovative drug development and its impact on patient access, the Board on Health...

Adolescence is a critical growth period in which youth develop essential skills that prepare them for adulthood. Prevention and intervention progra...

Marine recreational fishing is a popular activity enjoyed by more than 9 million Americans annually and is a driver of the American ocean-or blue-e...

A central goal of U.S. fisheries management is to control the exploitation of fish populations so that fisheries remain biologically productive, ec...

Quantum mechanics, the subfield of physics that describes the behavior of very small (quantum) particles, provides the basis for a new paradigm of ...

High-performance electronics are key to the U.S. Air Force's (USAF's) ability to deliver lethal effects at the time and location of their choosing....

Continuing advances in science and technology offer the promise of providing tools to meet global challenges in health, agriculture, the environmen...

The U.S. military has a stockpile of approximately 400,000 tons of excess, obsolete, or unserviceable munitions. About 60,000 tons are added to the...

The high rate of incarceration in the United States contributes significantly to the nation's health inequities, extending beyond those who are imp...

Genome editing is a powerful new tool for making precise alterations to an organism's genetic material. Recent scientific advances have made genome...

When communities face complex public health emergencies, state local, tribal, and territorial public health agencies must make difficult decisions ...

Biomedical research data sets are becoming larger and more complex, and computing capabilities are expanding to enable transformative scientific re...