Author: National Research Council

Since 1991, the National Research Council, under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, has undertaken a program of...

In the United States, we have come to depend on plentiful and inexpensive energy to support our economy and lifestyles. In recent years, many quest...

More and more young people are learning about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in a wide variety of afterschool, summer, an...

The undergraduate years are a turning point in producing scientifically literate citizens and future scientists and engineers. Evidence from resear...

Big Data in Materials Research and Development is the summary of a workshop convened by the National Research Council Standing Committee on Defense...

The Science of Responding to a Nuclear Reactor Accident summarizes the presentations and discussions of the May 2014 Gilbert W. Beebe Symposium tit...

Overall Air Force weapon system sustainment (WSS) costs are growing at more than 4 percent per year, while budgets have remained essentially flat. ...

Coal mine disasters in the United States are relatively rare events; many of the roughly 50,000 miners underground will never have to evacuate a mi...

Preserving the efficacy of herbicides and of herbicide-resistance technology depends on awareness of the increasing resistance of weeds to herbicid...

The global scientific and policy community now unequivocally accepts that human activities cause global climate change. Although information on cli...

Summary of a Workshop on Mississippi River Water Quality Science and Interstate Collaboration summarizes presentations and discussions of Mississip...

The potential for using fusion energy to produce commercial electric power was first explored in the 1950s. Harnessing fusion energy offers the pro...

In the fall of 2010, the Office of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Secretary for Science asked for a National Research Council (NRC) commit...

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are cultural achievements that reflect our humanity, power our economy, and constitute fun...

Extremely hazardous substances can be released accidentally as a result of chemical spills, industrial explosions, fires, or accidents involving ra...

The Arctic has been undergoing significant changes in recent years. Average temperatures are rising twice as fast as they are elsewhere in the worl...

Despite the increase in funding for research and the rising numbers of peer-reviewed publications over the past decade that address the environment...

Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy is the summary of a workshop convened by the Air...

STEM Integration in K-12 Education examines current efforts to connect the STEM disciplines in K-12 education. This report identifies and character...

Microbial forensics is a scientific discipline dedicated to analyzing evidence from a bioterrorism act, biocrime, or inadvertent microorganism or t...

Pathways to Urban Sustainability: Perspective from Portland and the Pacific Northwest is the summary of a workshop convened by the National Researc...

Stem cells offer tremendous promise for advancing health and medicine. Whether being used to replace damaged cells and organs or else by supporting...

It is probably only a matter of time before we witness the next event in which large numbers of people are exposed to ionizing radiation. In the pa...

Recent years have seen a growing tendency for social scientists to collect biological specimens such as blood, urine, and saliva as part of large-s...

Recent serious and sometimes fatal accidents in chemical research laboratories at United States universities have driven government agencies, profe...

Potential health effects from chemicals that disrupt endocrine function pose an environmental health concern because of their ability to interfere ...

We depend on information and information technology (IT) to make many of our day-to-day tasks easier and more convenient. Computers play key roles ...

Flexible electronics describes circuits that can bend and stretch, enabling significant versatility in applications and the prospect of low-cost ma...

Sociality, Hierarchy, Health: Comparative Biodemography is a collection of papers that examine cross-species comparisons of social environments wit...

By 2050 the world's population is projected to grow by one-third, reaching between 9 and 10 billion. With globalization and expected growth in glob...

The United States embarked on bold polices to enhance its food and agricultural system during the last half of the 19th century, investing first in...

Every day in the United States, children and adolescents are victims of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. These are not only ille...

Hurricane- and coastal-storm-related losses have increased substantially during the past century, largely due to increases in population and develo...

The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Economic Research Service's (ERS) Food Availability Data System includes three distinct but ...

This book is the eighth volume in the series Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals, and reviews AEGLs for acrolein, carbo...

As the availability of high-throughput data-collection technologies, such as information-sensing mobile devices, remote sensing, internet log recor...

Climate theory dictates that core elements of the climate system, including precipitation, evapotranspiration, and reservoirs of atmospheric and so...

The Everglades ecosystem is vast, stretching more than 200 miles from Orlando to Florida Bay, and Everglades National Park is but a part located at...

What students learn about the science disciplines, technology, engineering, and mathematics during their K-12 schooling shapes their intellectual d...

On September 8-9, 2011, experts in solar physics, climate models, paleoclimatology, and atmospheric science assembled at the National Center for At...

The Environmental Protection Agency's estimate of the costs associated with implementing numeric nutrient criteria in Florida's waterways was signi...

The ocean is a fundamental component of the earth's biosphere. It covers roughly 70 percent of Earth's surface and plays a pivotal role in the cycl...

On May 8, 2009, the symposium, The Federal Statistical System: Recognizing Its Contributions, Moving It Forward was held in Washington, DC. One of ...

Combustion has provided society with most of its energy needs for millenia, from igniting the fires of cave dwellers to propelling the rockets that...

People are constantly changing the land surface through construction, agriculture, energy production, and other activities. Changes both in how lan...

More than four decades have passed since a human first set foot on the Moon. Great strides have been made in our understanding of what is required ...

During the last decade, national and international scientific organizations have become increasingly engaged in considering how to respond to the b...

It is critical that we increase public knowledge and understanding of science and technology issues through formal and informal learning for the Un...