Author: National Academy of Sciences

India and the United States are the world's two largest democracies with distinguished scientific traditions and experts in a wide range of scienti...

Humans possess certain unique mental traits. Self-reflection, as well as ethic and aesthetic values, is among them, constituting an essential part ...

The Postdoctoral Experience Revisited builds on the 2000 report Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers. That ground-bre...

The primary federal program designed to ensure that all states are capable of participating the nation's research enterprise fall under the general...

Biodiversitythe genetic variety of lifeis an exuberant product of the evolutionary past, a vast human-supportive resource (aesthetic, intellectual,...

On August 25-26, 2014, the Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares (IPEN) and the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academy of ...

In an increasingly interconnected world, science and technology research often transects international boundaries and involves researchers from mul...

In order for the United States to maintain the global leadership and competitiveness in science and technology that are critical to achieving natio...

The central goal of the In the Light of Evolution (ILE) series is to promote the evolutionary sciences through state-of-the-art colloquiain the ser...

The globalization of science, engineering, and medical research is proceeding rapidly. The globalization of research has important implications for...

In the face of so many daunting near-term challenges, U.S. government and industry are letting the crucial strategic issues of U.S. competitiveness...

America's research universities have undergone striking change in recent decades, as have many aspects of the society that surrounds them. This cha...

Innovation has been a major engine of American economic and societal progress. It has increased per capita income more than sevenfold since the 19t...

The U.S. government has made safeguarding of weapons-grade plutonium and highly enriched uranium an international policy priority, and convened The...

The Human Condition is a collection of papers by leading evolutionary biologists and philosophers of science that reflect on the Darwinian Revoluti...

The Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program was created in 1991 as a set of support activities assisting the Former Soviet Union states in secur...

Biodiversitythe genetic variety of lifeis an exuberant product of the evolutionary past, a vast human-supportive resource (aesthetic, intellectual,...

Heritable human genome editing - making changes to the genetic material of eggs, sperm, or any cells that lead to their development, including the ...

As ballistic missile technology proliferates, and as ballistic missile defenses are deployed by both the Russian Federation and the United States, ...

The United States and India have pledged to deepen the linkages between their people, their businesses, and their governments for the mutual benefi...

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

During July 10-13, 2011, 68 participants from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, Turkey for a workshop organized by the United States National Rese...

America's economy and lifestyles have been shaped by the low prices and availability of energy. In the last decade, however, the prices of oil, nat...

Energy production and use touch our lives in countless ways. We are reminded of the cost of energy every time we fill up at the gas pump, pay an el...