Author: National Research Council

America's position as the source of much of the world's global innovation has been the foundation of its economic vitality and military power in th...

The Committee to Assess the Current Status and Future Direction of High Magnetic Field Science in the United States was convened by the National Re...

Young adults are at a significant and pivotal time of life. They may seek higher education, launch their work lives, develop personal relationships...

Since the 1950s, under congressional mandate, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) - through its National Center for Science and Engineering ...

Technological innovations are key causal agents of surprise and disruption. In the recent past, the United States military has encountered unexpect...

The mission of the United States Army is to fight and win our nation's wars by providing prompt, sustained land dominance across the full range of ...

Medium- and heavy-duty trucks, motor coaches, and transit buses - collectively, "medium- and heavy-duty vehicles", or MHDVs - are used in every sec...

Bullying - long tolerated as just a part of growing up - finally has been recognized as a substantial and preventable health problem. Bullying is a...

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...

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...

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 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...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Combat helmets have evolved considerably over the years from those used in World War I to today's Advanced Combat Helmet. One of the key advances w...

The two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, February 12, 2009, occurred at a critical time for the United States and the world. I...

The National Research Council's Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) provides biennial assessments of the scientific and te...

Over the last two decades, computers have become omnipresent in daily life. Their increased power and accessibility have enabled the accumulation, ...

The Next Generation Air Transportation System's (NextGen) goal is the transformation of the U.S. national airspace system through programs and init...