Science Funding & Policy

The growing use of nuclear medicine, the potential expansion of nuclear power generation, and the urgent needs to protect the nation against extern...

Publicly available statistics from government agencies that are credible, relevant, accurate, and timely are essential for policy makers, individua...

The National Academies Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science, established in 2019, has taken on an important role in addressing issues...

The spring of 2020 marked a change in how almost everyone conducted their personal and professional lives, both within science, technology, enginee...

The United States has long made substantial investments in clinical research with the goal of improving the health and well-being of our nation. Th...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to conduct a quadrennial review of its ...

Careers in science, engineering, and medicine offer opportunities to advance knowledge, contribute to the well-being of communities, and support th...

Dramatic statements about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence for humanity abound, as an industry of experts claims that AI is poised ...

USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Bestseller Internacional Una [crítica] elocuente, carismática e informada de un sistema corrupto.Robert F. Kennedy...

The Future of Open Data flows from a multi-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grant project that set out to e...

Geoengineering, the idea of addressing climate change through large-scale technological projects, stands out among contested technologies in the de...

Geoengineering, the idea of addressing climate change through large-scale technological projects, is a unique example of a contested emerging techn...

If the stories they tell about themselves are to be believed, all of the tech giantsApple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazonwere built from t...

In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explains how a succession of catastrophesfrom the deva...

An in-depth analysis of why COVID-19 warnings failed and how to avert the next disaster Epidemiologists and national security agencies warned for ...