Author: National Research Council

Suborbital flight activities, including the use of sounding rockets, aircraft, high-altitude balloons, and suborbital reusable launch vehicles, off...

BioWatch is an air monitoring system deployed in jurisdictions around the country with the goal of detecting the presence of certain high risk path...

The U.S. Air Force has experienced many acquisition program failures - cost overruns, schedule delays, system performance problems, and sustainabil...

Dual-use applications for chemical manufacturing equipment have been recognized as a concern for many years, and export-control regulations worldwi...

During the period 1990 to 2010, U.S. job growth occurred primarily in the high-skilled and low-skilled sectors. Yet, one-third of projected job gro...

One of the last two sites with chemical munitions and chemical materiel is the Pueblo Chemical Depot in Pueblo, Colorado. The stockpile at this loc...

Commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors in the United States are frequently overlooked, misunderstood, and unaddressed domesti...

A high percentage of defense systems fail to meet their reliability requirements. This is a serious problem for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD...

The National Research Council (NRC) has been conducting decadal surveys in the Earth and space sciences since 1964, and released the latest five su...

According to recent reports, the United States currently accounts for less than one-third of global research and development spending, and it is pr...

The past 15 years have seen marked progress in observing, understanding, and predicting weather. At the same time, the United States has failed to ...

The Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) in Colorado is one of two sites that features U.S. stockpile of chemical weapons that need to be destroyed. The PC...

In the last few decades great strides have been made in chemistry at the nanoscale, where the atomic granularity of matter and the exact positions ...

On October 17, 2014, spurred by incidents at U.S. government laboratories that raised serious biosafety concerns, the United States government laun...

Nanotechnology has become one of the defining ideas in global R&D over the past decade. In 2001 the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) wa...

Safeguarding U.S. agriculture from foreign animal diseases and protecting our food system require cutting-edge research and diagnostic capabilities...

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) permeate the modern world. The jobs people do, the foods they eat, the vehicles in which t...

Spurred on by new discoveries and rapid technological advances, the capacity for life science research is expanding across the globeand with it com...

When, in late 2011, it became public knowledge that two research groups had submitted for publication manuscripts that reported on their work on ma...

The Evidence for Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan and Around the World is the summary of a workshop convened in January 2013 by the Institut...

Elder Abuse and Its Prevention is the summary of a workshop convened in April 2013 by the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Global Violence Preventi...

The Global Nuclear Detection Architecture (GNDA) is described as a worldwide network of sensors, telecommunications, and personnel, with the suppor...

The Republic of Indonesia, home to over 240 million people, is the world's fourth most populous nation. Ethnically, culturally, and economically di...

Earth science, which in this context does not include oceanic, atmospheric, and space sciences, is vital to the wellbeing of the United States and ...

Increasing renewable energy development, both within the United States and abroad, has rekindled interest in the potential for marine and hydrokine...

Climate change is occurring, is very likely caused by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems....

A respected resource for decades, the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals has been updated by a committee of experts, taking into cons...

Created in 1982 through the Small Business Innovation Development Act, the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program remains the nation's s...

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is responsible for the stewardship of the nation's living marine resources and their habitat. As part ...

Many national initiatives in K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education have emphasized the connections between teache...

The United States Army faces a variety of challenges to maintain a ready and capable force into the future. Missions are increasingly diverse, rang...

Advances in the life sciences - from the human genome to biotechnology to personalized medicine and sustainable communities - have profound implica...

In February 2009, the commercial communications satellite Iridium 33 collided with the Russian military communications satellite Cosmos 2251. The c...

In a world of increasing dependence on information technology, the prevention of cyberattacks on a nation's important computer and communications s...

An emerging body of research suggests that a set of broad 21st century skillssuch as adaptability, complex communication skills, and the ability to...

The passive, receive-only Radio Astronomy Service (RAS) and the Earth Exploration-Satellite Service (EESS) provide otherwise impossible scientific ...

The stresses associated with climate change are expected to be felt keenly as human population grows to a projected 9 billion by the middle of this...

Report of a Workshop on the Scope and Nature of Computational Thinking presents a number of perspectives on the definition and applicability of com...

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, understanding the need for policy makers at the national level to entrain the behavioral and social scien...

The intelligence community (IC) plays an essential role in the national security of the United States. Decision makers rely on IC analyses and pred...

High school graduation and dropout rates have long been used as indicators of educational system productivity and effectiveness and of social and e...

Teachers make a difference. The success of any plan for improving educational outcomes depends on the teachers who carry it out and thus on the abi...

The Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) is under construction near Richmond, Kentucky, two dispose of one of the two remaini...

This book presents a summary of the Workshop on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices: Current Knowledge and Research Gaps, held...

Planning for the 2020 census is already beginning. This book from the National Research Council examines several aspects of census planning, includ...

From the oceans to continental heartlands, human activities have altered the physical characteristics of Earth's surface. With Earth's population p...

Citrus greening, a disease that reduces yield, compromises the flavor, color, and size of citrus fruit and eventually kills the citrus tree, is now...

Thirty years ago federal policy underwent a major change through the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which fostered greater uniformity in the way research a...