Author: National Academies of Sciences

The 2013 report Solar and Space Physics; A Science for a Technological Society outlined a program of basic and applied research for the period 2013...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Manufacturing USA Institutes aim to protect national security and increase U.S. competitiveness in manufacturi...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that approximately 40 million people in the United States suffer from a serious illness th...

The US Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) provides assistance and supports capacity building for crim...

Strategically moving communities and infrastructureincluding homes and businessesaway from environmentally high-risk areas, such as vulnerable coas...

The education landscape in the United States has been changing rapidly in recent decades: student populations have become more diverse; there has b...

The Intelligence Community Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 2-day virtual workshop on Dece...

The Transport Airplane Risk Assessment Methodology (TARAM) is a process for calculating risk associated with continued operational safety issues in...

On October 14 and 15, and December 8, 2021, the Board on Science Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a ...

Fostering diverse and inclusive teams that are highly skilled, innovative, and productive is critical for maintaining U.S. leadership in space expl...

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), in partnership with other agencies and divisions of the United States Dep...

Affecting technological systems at a global-scale, space weather can disrupt high-frequency radio signals, satellite-based communications, navigati...

In thousands of communities across the United States, drinking water is contaminated with chemicals known as perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl sub...

Scientific thinking and understanding are essential for all people navigating the world, not just for scientists and other science, technology, eng...

In recent years, interest and progress in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have boomed, with new applications vig...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and other U.S. science research agencies operate a fleet of research aircraft and other ai...

The effective use of data science - the science and technology of extracting value from data - improves, enhances, and strengthens acquisition deci...

The radio frequency spectrum is a limited resource for which there is an ever-increasing demand from an expansive range of applications - all the w...

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other minority institutions (MIs) represent a valuable resource to expand the Department o...

Radiation exposure at low doses (below 100 milligray) or low-dose rates (less than 5 milligray per hour) occurs in a wide range of medical, industr...

The Air Force Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a three-part workshop series to examine the ris...

Regular use of sunscreens has been shown to reduce the risk of sunburn and skin cancer, and slow photoaging of skin. Sunscreens can rinse off into ...

The United States faces a significantly aging population as well as a growing share of the population that is living longer with multiple chronic c...