Author: National Academies of Sciences

The importance of higher education has never been clearer. Educational attainmentthe number of years a person spends in schoolstrongly predicts adu...

An estimated 90 percent of oncology patients in the United States receive treatment in outpatient cancer centers and clinics. This change from the ...

Skilled technical occupationsdefined as occupations that require a high level of knowledge in a technical domain but do not require a bachelor's de...

At the request of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, the National Academies convened a committee to examine lessons learne...

Though cancer was once considered to be a problem primarily in wealthy nations, low- and middle-income countries now bear a majority share of the g...

Living independently and participating in one's community are priorities for many people. In many regions across the United States, there are progr...

Electricity is the lifeblood of modern society, and for the vast majority of people that electricity is obtained from large, interconnected power g...

Prior to 2012, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) technology had been primarily used by the military and hobbyists, but it has more recently transitio...

In November 2017, the The Forum on Promoting Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health, in collaboration with the Roundtable on the Pr...

The ocean is an integral component of the Earth's climate system. It covers about 70% of the Earth's surface and acts as its primary reservoir of h...

The Manufacturing USA initiative seeks to reinforce U.S.-based advanced manufacturing through partnerships among industry, academia, and government...

In 2014 the National Science Foundation (NSF) provided support to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for a series of For...

In its landmark report, Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion, the Institute of Medicine noted that there are 90 million adults in the U...

The Superfund program of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created in the 1980s to address human-health and environmental risks pose...

Spacecraft depend on electronic components that must perform reliably over missions measured in years and decades. Space radiation is a primary sou...

The social cost of carbon (SCC) for a given year is an estimate, in dollars, of the present discounted value of the damage caused by a 1-metric ton...

Obesity has come to the forefront of the American public health agenda. The increased attention has led to a growing interest in quantifying obesit...

Opioid prescriptions for acute and chronic pain increased dramatically from the late 1990s into the current decade in both the civilian and the Dep...

Although it is becoming increasingly more common for clinicians to use genomic data in their practices for disease prevention, diagnosis, and treat...

Pediatric subspecialists are critical to ensuring quality care and pursuing research to improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment for children. ...

On September 22, 2022, the National Academy of Sciences held a symposium entitled Endless Frontier 2022: Research and Higher Education Institutions...

The use and misuse of antibiotics contributes to the rise in drug-resistant bacteria - a serious and worsening threat to human health. The developm...

On September 13 and 14, 2022, the Board on Science Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop entit...

High energy density (HED) science has critical applications for society from fusion energy to sustaining the US nuclear deterrent, while also contr...

The National Academies Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education hosted a multi-day workshop series in March and April 2023 to ex...

From April 25-26, 2023 the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop to...

Ensuring the safety of food and the quality and safety of medicines in a country is an important role of government, made more complicated by globa...

While there is a limited data on safety-sensitive professionals, substance use disorders potentially affect pilots and flight attendants at the sam...

In 2016, the National Science Foundation (NSF) established a five-year program on Understanding the Rules of Life (URoL) to identify generalizable ...

The U.S. National Climate Assessment identified a number of ways in which climate change is affecting, and is likely to affect, people, infrastruct...

Since 1944, the National Research Council (NRC) has published seven editions of the Nutrient Requirements of Beef Cattle. This reference has guided...

Multimodal therapy approaches that combine interventions aimed at different aspects of disease are emerging as potentialand perhaps essentialways t...

While there are examples of successful weapon systems acquisition programs within the U.S. Air Force (USAF), many of the programs are still incurri...

Nearly 40 percent of the students entering 2- and 4-year postsecondary institutions indicated their intention to major in science, technology, engi...

Health information technology is providing patients, clinicians, and researchers with access to data that will enable novel approaches to science a...

The field of quantum information science (QIS) has witnessed a dramatic rise in scientific research activities in the 21st century as excitement ha...

Sharing research data on public health issues can promote expanded scientific inquiry and has the potential to advance improvements in public healt...

Emerging infectious disease threats that may not have available treatments or vaccines can directly affect the security of the world's health since...

As part of its responsibilities under the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sets National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQ...

In April 2015, the Institute of Medicine convened a public workshop to explore recent shifts in the health and health care industry and their impli...

Among the many troubling aspects of the rising prevalence of obesity in the United States and elsewhere in recent years, the growth of early childh...

The National Research Council has conducted 11 decadal surveys in the Earth and space sciences since 1964 and released the latest four surveys in t...