Author: National Research Council

Early childhood care and education (ECCE) settings offer an opportunity to provide children with a solid beginning in all areas of their developmen...

The U.S. Congress charged the National Academies with conducting a review of the Internal Revenue Code to identify the types of and specific tax pr...

The Chemical Sciences Roundtable (CSR) was established in 1997 by the National Research Council (NRC). It provides a science oriented apolitical fo...

The National Science Foundation funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and future direction of discipline-based education research ...

Computing and information and communications technology (ICT) has dramatically changed how we work and live, has had profound effects on nearly eve...

Chemistry graduate education is under considerable pressure. Pharmaceutical companies, long a major employer of synthetic organic chemists, are dra...

Derelict satellites, equipment and other debris orbiting Earth (aka space junk) have been accumulating for many decades and could damage or even po...

Young adulthood - ages approximately 18 to 26 - is a critical period of development with long-lasting implications for a person's economic security...

During the 1980s and 1990s, the National Weather Service (NWS) undertook a major program called the Modernization and Associated Restructuring (MAR...

In the early 1990s, the Census Bureau proposed a program of continuous measurement as a possible alternative to the gathering of detailed social, e...

Sociocultural Data to Accomplish Department of Defense Missions: Toward a Unified Social Framework summarizes presentations and discussions that to...

While nations have always competed for territory, mineral riches, water, and other physical assets, they compete most vigorously today for technolo...

National Patterns of R&D Resources is an annual report issued by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the Nati...

Highly enriched uranium (HEU) is used for two major civilian purposes: as fuel for research reactors and as targets for medical isotope production....

Over the past century, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has built a vast network of water management infrastructure that includes approximately 700...

The use of hazardous chemicals such as methyl isocyanate can be a significant concern to the residents of communities adjacent to chemical faciliti...

Factoring health and related costs into decision making is essential to confronting the nation's health problems and enhancing public well-being. S...

The National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

NASA's space and Earth science program is composed of two principal components: spaceflight projects and mission-enabling activities. Most of the b...

The end of dramatic exponential growth in single-processor performance marks the end of the dominance of the single microprocessor in computing. Th...

The San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary is a large, complex estuarine ecosystem in California. It has been substantially altered by dikes, levees, chan...

The Committee on an Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives set forth to provid...

Geodesy is the science of accurately measuring and understanding three fundamental properties of Earth: its geometric shape, its orientation in spa...