Author: National Research Council

Tobacco use has declined because of measures such as high taxes on tobacco products and bans on advertising, but worldwide there are still more tha...

How we produce and consume food has a bigger impact on Americans' well-being than any other human activity. The food industry is the largest sector...

The 2012 National Research Council report Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative highlighted the challenges of increasing national resilience i...

Tide gauges show that global sea level has risen about 7 inches during the 20th century, and recent satellite data show that the rate of sea-level ...

Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers...

The scientific and technological progress in inertial confinement fusion has been substantial during the past decade. However, many of the technolo...

Extensively modified over the last century and a half, California's San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary remains biologically diverse and functions as a...

Science at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is intrinsically global, and from early in its history, the USGS has successfully carried out internat...

In the late 1980s, the National Cancer Institute initiated an investigation of cancer risks in populations near 52 commercial nuclear power plants ...

Immigration enforcement is carried out by a complex legal and administrative system, operating under frequently changing legislative mandates and p...

The National Research Council's Science and Technology for Sustainability Program hosted two workshops in 2011 addressing the sustainability challe...

New astronomical facilities, such as the under-construction Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and planned 30-meter-class telescopes, and new instrume...

The Florida Everglades is a large and diverse aquatic ecosystem that has been greatly altered over the past century by an extensive water control i...

In 1993 the National Research Council released its landmark report Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect (NRC, 1993). That report identified child ...

Research Universities and the Future of America presents critically important strategies for ensuring that our nation's research universities contr...

For the past decade, the U.S. Marine Corps and its sister services have been engaged in what has been termed hybrid warfare, which ranges from acti...

Developing credible short-term and long-term projections of Medicare health care costs is critical for public- and private-sector policy planning, ...

Despite efforts to reduce drug consumption in the United States over the past 35 years, drugs are just as cheap and available as they have ever bee...

All six species of sea turtles found in U.S. waters are listed as endangered or threatened, but the exact population sizes of these species are unk...

Various combinations of commercially available technologies could greatly reduce fuel consumption in passenger cars, sport-utility vehicles, miniva...

Recent outbreaks of illnesses traced to contaminated sprouts and lettuce illustrate the holes that exist in the system for monitoring problems and ...

Critical Code contemplates Department of Defense (DoD) needs and priorities for software research and suggests a research agenda and related action...

Although the progress of environmental restoration projects in the Florida Everglades remains slow overall, there have been improvements in the pac...

Driven by discoveries, and enabled by leaps in technology and imagination, our understanding of the universe has changed dramatically during the co...