Author: National Research Council

The Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, Third Edition, assists judges in managing cases involving complex scientific and technical evidence by...

This report summarizes the proceedings of a workshop convened in June 2010 to critically examine the various databases that could provide national ...

During July 10-13, 2011, 68 participants from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, Turkey for a workshop organized by the United States National Rese...

The field of corrosion science and engineering is on the threshold of important advances. Advances in lifetime prediction and technological solutio...

Historically, the flow of sediment in the Missouri River has been as important as the flow of water for a variety of river functions. The sediment ...

The United States military is arguably the most intensely technological, complex enterprise in existence. When compared to the gross domestic produ...

Every 10 years the National Research Council releases a survey of astronomy and astrophysics outlining priorities for the coming decade. The most r...

The March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami sparked a humanitarian disaster in northeastern Japan. They were responsible for more t...

Natural disastersincluding hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and floodscaused more than 220,000 deaths worldwide in the first half of 20...

Across the United States, thousands of hazardous waste sites are contaminated with chemicals that prevent the underlying groundwater from meeting d...

Following an earlier NRC workshop on public response to alerts and warnings delivered to mobile devices, a related workshop was held on February 2...

In the fall of 2010, the U.S. National Academies (consisting of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Inst...

Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and region...

Natural gas in deep shale formations, which can be developed by hydraulic fracturing and associated technologies (often collectively referred to as...

The education system in the United States is continually challenged to adapt and improve, in part because its mission has become far more ambitious...

The development and application of technology has been an essential part of U.S. airpower, leading to a century of air supremacy. But that developm...

In recent years, as science becomes increasingly international and collaborative, the importance of projects that involve research teams and resear...

The ocean has absorbed a significant portion of all human-made carbon dioxide emissions. This benefits human society by moderating the rate of clim...

Higher education is a linchpin of the American economy and society: teaching and research at colleges and universities contribute significantly to ...

The polar regions are experiencing rapid changes in climate. These changes are causing observable ecological impacts of various types and degrees o...

The public-private partnership to develop vehicles that require less petroleum-based fuel and emit fewer greenhouse gases should continue to includ...

The first two decades of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program have provided a successful and useful asses...

In recent years, planetary science has seen a tremendous growth in new knowledge. Deposits of water ice exist at the Moon's poles. Discoveries on t...

Changes in the 21st century security environment require new analytic approaches to support strategic deterrence. Because current adversaries may b...

More than 30 years ago, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council (NRC) convened a committee to determine methodologies and...

Flexible Electronics for Security, Manufacturing, and Growth in the United States is the summary of a workshop convened in September 2010 by Policy...

In 1950 men and women in the United States had a combined life expectancy of 68.9 years, the 12th highest life expectancy at birth in the world. To...

In 1972 NASA launched the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ETRS), now known as Landsat 1, and on February 11, 2013 launched Landsat 8. Current...

America's economy and lifestyles have been shaped by the low prices and availability of energy. In the last decade, however, the prices of oil, nat...

According to the big bang theory, our Universe began in a state of unimaginably high energy and density, contained in a space of subatomic dimensio...

The aging of the population of the United States is occurring at a time of major economic and social changes. These economic changes include consid...

The nanotechnology sector, which generated about $225 billion in product sales in 2009, is predicted to expand rapidly over the next decade with th...

Section 141 of The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 20101 provides funding for a research program on the causes and consequences of childhood hunge...

In the United States (U.S.), the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976, now known as the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Manage...

On June 15, 2011, the Air Force Space Command established a new vision, mission, and set of goals to ensure continued U.S. dominance in space and c...

Although advances in engineering can reduce the risk of dam and levee failure, some failures will still occur. Such events cause impacts on social ...

A sustainable society, according to one definition, is one that can persist over generations; one that is far-seeing enough, flexible enough, and w...

To improve screening of containerized cargo for nuclear and radiological material that might be entering the United States, the Department of Homel...

Helium has long been the subject of public policy deliberation and management, largely because of its many strategic uses and its unusual source-it...

The United States spends approximately $4 million each year searching for near-Earth objects (NEOs). The objective is to detect those that may coll...

The Bureau of Justice Statistics' (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) measures the rates at which Americans are victims of crimes, inc...

Energy production and use touch our lives in countless ways. We are reminded of the cost of energy every time we fill up at the gas pump, pay an el...

Improving State Voter Registration Databases outlines several actions that are needed to help make voter registration databases capable of sharing ...

H1N1 (swine flu), SARS, mad cow disease, and HIV/AIDS are a few examples of zoonotic diseases-diseases transmitted between humans and animals. Zoon...

As women of childbearing age have become heavier, the trade-off between maternal and child health created by variation in gestational weight gain h...

The United States is currently the only country with an active, government-sponsored effort to detect and track potentially hazardous near-Earth ob...

Sustainable developmentmeeting human needs while nurturing and restoring the planet's life support systemsrequires a continuous process of scientif...