Author: National Academies of Sciences

Science is a way of knowing about the world. At once a process, a product, and an institution, science enables people to both engage in the constru...

Quality of care is a priority for U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The agency's missions abroad and their host country partners w...

The Department of Commerce operates two telecommunications research laboratories located at the Department of Commerce's Boulder, Colorado, campus:...

The workshop summarized in this report was organized as part of a study sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ...

Currently, many states are adopting the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) or are revising their own state standards in ways that reflect the...

The market for high-skilled workers is becoming increasingly global, as are the markets for knowledge and ideas. While high-skilled immigrants in t...

In 2004, the Institute of Medicine released Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion, a report on the then-underappreciated challenge of en...

Children living in poverty are more likely to have mental health problems, and their conditions are more likely to be severe. Of the approximately ...

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs provide federal research and development fundi...

Recent demographic trends in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region will shape the growth and age composition of its populations for decades...

Antarctic and Southern Ocean scientific research has produced a wide array of important and exciting scientific advances. Spanning oceanography to ...

The United States manufactured significant quantities of chemical weapons during the Cold War and the years prior. Because the chemical weapons are...

The electromagnetic spectrum is a vital part of our environment. Measures of radio frequency emissions from natural phenomena enable both practical...

In 1993, the United States signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international treaty outlawing the production, stockpiling, and use of ...

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 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships, and was established in 19...

The proliferation of consumer-facing technology and personal health information technology has grown steadily over the past decade, and has certain...

Pathogens transmitted among humans, animals, or plants by insects and arthropod vectors have been responsible for significant morbidity and mortali...

Since the 2014 Ebola outbreak many public- and private-sector leaders have seen a need for improved management of global public health emergencies....

In recent years, the U.S. federal government has invested approximately $463 billion annually in interventions that affect the overall health and w...

The U.S. Department of State charged the Academies with the task of producing a protocol for development of standard operating procedures (SOPs) th...

In recent years, the field of oncology has witnessed a number of technological advances, including more precise radiation therapy and minimally inv...

There are approximately 4,000 fatalities in crashes involving trucks and buses in the United States each year. Though estimates are wide-ranging, p...

Gulf Coast communities and natural resources suffered extensive direct and indirect damage as a result of the largest accidental oil spill in US hi...

In February 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop to explore options for expanding the Substance Abus...

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is recognized worldwide as a major cause of disability, morbidity, and mortality. According to the World Health Org...

The aging and evolving racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. population has the United States in the midst of a profound demographic shift and ...

Reliable and valid forensic science analytic techniques are critical to a credible, fair, and evidence-based criminal justice system. There is wide...

The Department of Commerce operates two telecommunications research laboratories located at the Department of Commerce's Boulder, Colorado, campus:...

Immunotherapy is a form of cancer therapy that harnesses the body's immune system to destroy cancer cells. In recent years, immunotherapies have be...

Older adults are a growing demographic group in the United States, and a range of physical, social, financial, and cultural factors affect their nu...

Passenger screening at commercial airports in the United States has gone through significant changes since the events of September 11, 2001. In res...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was signed into law in 2010, has several provisions that could greatly improve the beha...

The public health burden from lung cancer is substantial: it is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related d...

The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is an interagency program, established by the Global Change Research Act (GCRA) of 1990, mandated ...

Military operations produce a great deal of trash in an environment where standard waste management practices may be subordinated to more pressing ...

Communities provide the context in which programs, principles, and policies are implemented. Their needs dictate the kinds of programs that communi...

The most recent Ebola epidemic that began in late 2013 alerted the entire world to the gaps in infectious disease emergency preparedness and respon...

The United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is moving towards a sustained assessment process that allows for more fluid and consisten...

Recent years have yielded significant advances in computing and communication technologies, with profound impacts on society. Technology is transfo...

A decade ago, the U.S. chemical industry was in decline. Of the more than 40 chemical manufacturing plants being built worldwide in the mid-2000s w...

New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (NWNH), the report of the 2010 decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics, put forward a v...

The 20142015 Ebola epidemic in western Africa was the longest and most deadly Ebola epidemic in history, resulting in 28,616 cases and 11,310 death...

Historically, the United States has been a world leader in aerospace endeavors in both the government and commercial sectors. A key factor in aeros...

The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (DOE) is responsible for the safe cleanup of sites used for nuclear weapons developme...