Author: National Research Council

January 2012 saw the completion of the U.S. Army's Chemical Materials Agency's (CMA's) task to destroy 90 percent of the nation's stockpile of chem...

Convergence of the life sciences with fields including physical, chemical, mathematical, computational, engineering, and social sciences is a key s...

The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) - a program of the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology - has...

The charge of the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) is to provide biennial assessments of the scientific and technical q...

The United States is responsible for nearly one-fifth of the world's energy consumption. Population growth, and the associated growth in housing, c...

In some coalbeds, naturally occurring water pressure holds methanethe main component of natural gasfixed to coal surfaces and within the coal. In a...

Through direct exploration of the subseafloor, U.S.-supported scientific ocean drilling programs have significantly contributed to a broad range of...

The three National Security LaboratoriesLos Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), and Lawrence Livermore National ...

Educators and policy makers in the United States have relied on tests to measure educational progress for more than 150 years. During the twentieth...

Animal research will play an essential role in efforts to meet increasing demands for global health care. Yet the animal research community faces t...

The use of radio-frequency communicationcommonly referred to as wireless communicationis becoming more pervasive as well as more economically and s...

Digital technologies and networks are now part of everyday work in the sciences, and have enhanced access to and use of scientific data, informatio...

The District of Columbia (DC) has struggled for decades to improve its public education system. In 2007 the DC government made a bold change in the...

The U.S. food system provides many benefits, not the least of which is a safe, nutritious and consistent food supply. However, the same system also...

Biometric recognitionthe automated recognition of individuals based on their behavioral and biological characteristicis promoted as a way to help i...

The workshop was convened to explore the region's approach to urban sustainability, with an emphasis on building the evidence base upon which new p...

In 2012, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) approached the National Research Council's TIGER standing committee and asked it to develop a list o...

The theme of this international symposium is the promotion of greater sharing of scientific data for the benefit of research and broader developmen...

Recent well documented reductions in the thickness and extent of Arctic sea ice cover, which can be linked to the warming climate, are affecting th...

In 2008, the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation asked the National Research Council (N...

The Standing Committee on Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure (DMMI) conducted a workshop on July 23-24, 2012, to share information ...

A committee under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), is conducting a study of selected state and regiona...

The growth of electronic publishing of literature has created new challenges, such as the need for mechanisms for citing online references in ways ...

During the last 25 years, life expectancy at age 50 in the United States has been rising, but at a slower pace than in many other high-income count...