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...