Author: National Research Council

Benefit-cost analyses hold great promise for influencing policies related to children, youth, and families. By comparing the costs of preventive in...

Population surveys traditionally collect information from respondents about their circumstances, behaviors, attitudes, and other characteristics. I...

The development and application of increasingly autonomous (IA) systems for civil aviation is proceeding at an accelerating pace, driven by the exp...

Aligning the Governance Structure of the NNSA Laboratories to Meet 21st Century National Security Challenges is an independent assessment regarding...

Since the early 1960s, the U.S. strategic nuclear posture has been composed of a triad of nuclear-certified long-range bombers, intercontinental ba...

Despite decades of government, university, and employer efforts to close the gender gap in engineering, women make up only 11 percent of practicing...

Historically, regulations governing chemical use have often focused on widely used chemicals and acute human health effects of exposure to them, as...

Diplomacy for the 21st Century recommends steps that the Department of State should embrace to take full advantage of the leading science and techn...

For over a century, field stations have been important entryways for scientists to study and make important discoveries about the natural world. Th...

Eyewitnesses play an important role in criminal cases when they can identify culprits. Estimates suggest that tens of thousands of eyewitnesses mak...

Once ice-bound, difficult to access, and largely ignored by the rest of the world, the Arctic is now front and center in the midst of many importan...

The forested land in the United States is an asset that is owned and managed not only by federal, state, and local governments, but also by familie...

The National Children's Study (NCS) was authorized by the Children's Health Act of 2000 and is being implemented by a dedicated Program Office in t...

People's bonds, associations and networks - as well as the civil, political, and institutional characteristics of the society in which they live - ...

The National Science Foundation developed the Science of Science and Innovation Policy program (SciSIP) in 2006 to fund basic and applied research ...

Subjective well-being refers to how people experience and evaluate their lives and specific domains and activities in their lives. This information...

The Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) is a program within the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that is responsible for developing t...

It has become trite to observe that increases in health care costs have become unsustainable. How best for policy to address these increases, howev...

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the nation's primary resource for advancing scientific research, development, and evaluation on crime an...

Science, engineering, and technology permeate nearly every facet of modern life and hold the key to solving many of humanity's most pressing curren...

Research and development (R&D) organizations are operated by government, business, academe, and independent institutes. The success of their pa...

Using Science as Evidence in Public Policy encourages scientists to think differently about the use of scientific evidence in policy making. This r...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)recognizing that information and insights gained through continual examination of practice...

Scientific research has enabled America to remain at the forefront of global competition for commercially viable technologies and other innovations...