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The ability of the nation's military to prevail during future conflicts, and to fulfill its humanitarian and other missions, depends on continued a...

Eyewitnesses play an important role in criminal cases when they can identify culprits. Estimates suggest that tens of thousands of eyewitnesses mak...

No person or place is immune from disasters or disaster-related losses. Infectious disease outbreaks, acts of terrorism, social unrest, or financia...

Report of a Workshop on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce Needs for the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. De...

The Postdoctoral Experience Revisited builds on the 2000 report Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers. That ground-bre...

With the increasing frequency of natural and human-induced disasters and the increasing magnitude of their consequences, a clear need exists for go...

The primary federal program designed to ensure that all states are capable of participating the nation's research enterprise fall under the general...

Research universities are critical contributors to our national research enterprise. They are the principal source of a world-class labor force and...

In order for the United States to maintain the global leadership and competitiveness in science and technology that are critical to achieving natio...

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

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

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...

America's research universities have undergone striking change in recent decades, as have many aspects of the society that surrounds them. This cha...

Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security is a study on the ethical, legal, and societal issues relating to the research on...

One of the pathways by which the scientific community confirms the validity of a new scientific discovery is by repeating the research that produce...

Innovation has been a major engine of American economic and societal progress. It has increased per capita income more than sevenfold since the 19t...

U.S. leadership in technology innovation is central to our nation's interests, including its security, economic prosperity, and quality of life. Ou...

During the 2016 presidential election, America's election infrastructure was targeted by actors sponsored by the Russian government. Securing the V...

Climate change is creating impacts that are widespread and severe for individuals, communities, economies, and ecosystems around the world. While ...

Technological advances in noninvasive neuroimaging, neurophysiology, genome sequencing, and other methods together with rapid progress in computati...

The potential misuse of advances in life sciences research is raising concerns about national security threats. Dual Use Research of Concern in the...

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

Facial recognition technology is increasingly used for identity verification and identification, from aiding law enforcement investigations to iden...