Author: National Research Council

The Earth's population, currently 7.2 billion, is expected to rise at a rapid rate over the next 40 years. Current projections state that the Earth...

Solar irradiance is a vital source of energy input for the Earth's climate system and its variability has the potential to mitigate or exacerbate a...

Climate change poses risks to human health and well-being through shifting weather patterns, increases in frequency and intensity of heat waves and...

Seeking Solutions: Maximizing American Talent by Advancing Women of Color in Academia is the summary of a 2013 conference convened by the Committee...

On December 2-3, 2014, the Space Studies Board and the Board on Science Education of the National Research Council held a workshop on the NASA Scie...

This report summarizes a joint workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council with Fundacao Maria Cecilia Souto Vidig...

In today's world, the range of technologies with the potential to threaten the security of U.S. military forces is extremely broad. These include d...

The National Research Council's Roundtable on Public Interfaces of the Life Sciences held a 2-day workshop on January 15-16, 2015, in Washington, D...

The massive increase in digital information in the last decade has created new requirements for institutional and technological structures and work...

U.S. Arctic waters north of the Bering Strait and west of the Canadian border encompass a vast area that is usually ice covered for much of the yea...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST's) Material Measurement Laboratory (MML) is our nation's reference laboratory for measur...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) applies scientific results that have been provided by various parts of its own organization and by extern...

Development of Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources in the Appalachian Basin is the summary of a workshop convened by the National Research Council...

Simulators currently provide an alternative to aircraft when it comes to training requirements, both for the military and for commercial airlines. ...

In the past decade, a number of state, local, and tribal jurisdictions have begun to take significant steps to overhaul their juvenile justice syst...

Undergraduate Chemistry Education is the summary of a workshop convened in May 2013 by the Chemical Science Roundtable of the National Research Cou...

There is growing concern about the possible use of toxic industrial chemicals or other hazardous chemicals by those seeking to perpetrate acts of t...

Since genetically engineered (GE) crops were introduced in 1996, their use in the United States has grown rapidly, accounting for 80-90 percent of ...

The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) is a multiagency, multidisciplinary federal initiative comprising a collection of research programs an...

Owing to the expansion of network-centric operating concepts across the Department of Defense (DOD) and the growing threat to information and cyber...

There is little dispute within the scientific community that humans are changing Earth's climate on a decadal to century time-scale. By the end of ...

Information technology (IT) is widely understood to be the enabling technology of the 21st century. IT has transformed, and continues to transform,...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) is responsible for construction, operations, and maintenance of much of the nation's water resources infra...

Following the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the anthrax letters, the ability to detect biological threats as quickly as possible became a top p...