The 2011 National Research Council decadal survey on biological and physical sciences in space, R...

We live in a changing world with multiple and evolving threats to national security, including te...

Nonindigenous plants and plant pests that find their way to the United States and become invasive...

In 2005, the National Academies released the report Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Rese...

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The workplace is where 156 million working adults in the United States spend many waking hours, a...

This report addresses the transition of research satellites, instruments, and calculations into o...

The search for life in the solar system and beyond has to date been governed by a model based on ...

'From the oceans to continental heartlands, human activities have altered the physical characteri...

'Advancing Land Change Modeling: Opportunities and Research Requirements describes various LCM ap...

Faced with the steady rise in energy costs, dwindling fossil fuel supplies, and the need to maint...

'Chronic and episodic water shortages are becoming common in many regions of the United States, a...

Uncertainty is a fundamental characteristic of weather, seasonal climate, and hydrological predic...

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (9 11) on the United States prompted a rethinking of ...

For its annual symposium in 1984, the Food and Nutrition Board posed the key nutritional question...

'On March 10-11, 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a publi...

'Scientific advances over the past several decades have accelerated the ability to engineer exist...

'Floods take a heavy toll on society, costing lives, damaging buildings and property, disrupting ...

The new field of toxicogenomics presents a potentially powerful set of tools to better understand...

The world's nations are moving toward agreements that will bind us together in an effort to limit...

Prudent Practices in the Laboratorythe book that has served for decades as the standard for chemi...

The Earth system functions and connects in unexpected ways - from the microscopic interactions of...

The ocean is a fundamental component of the earth's biosphere. It covers roughly 70 percent of Ea...

Satellite remote sensing is the primary tool for measuring global changes in the land, ocean, bio...

Coal will continue to provide a major portion of energy requirements in the United States for at ...

Water is essential to life for humans and their food crops, and for ecosystems. Effective water m...

Motivated by the explosion of molecular data on humans-particularly data associated with individu...

Environmental research has driven landmark improvements that led to the protection of human and e...

Since 1944, the National Research Council (NRC) has published seven editions of the Nutrient Requ...

In order to answer important questions about ecosystems and biodiversity, scientists can look to ...

On July 30-31, 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a worksho...

Questions about the origin and nature of Earth and the life on it have long preoccupied human tho...

Humans are potentially exposed to more than 80,000 toxic chemicals in the environment, yet their ...

In 1943, as part of the Manhattan Project, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was established with t...

Landslides occur in all geographic regions of the nation in response to a wide range of condition...

Animals are widely used in neuroscience research to explore biological mechanisms of nervous syst...

'For thousands of years, the underground has provided humans refuge, useful resources, physical s...

Possible Long-Term Health Effects of Short-Term Exposure To Chemical Agents, Volume 3

The same technologies that fuel scientific advances also pose potential risks--that the knowledge...

Humans coexist with millions of harmless microorganisms, but emerging diseases, resistance to ant...

'A consensus study report of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine.'

The Superfund program of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created in the 1980s to...

In the last few decades great strides have been made in chemistry at the nanoscale, where the ato...

Marine recreational fishing is a popular activity enjoyed by more than 9 million Americans annual...

Since 1944, the National Research Council (NRC) has published seven editions of the Nutrient Requ...

The United States is a major producer of plastics and in 2016, generated more plastic waste by we...

Since 1944, the National Research Council (NRC) has published seven editions of the Nutrient Requ...

As of 2021, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have reached historically unprecedented levels, hig...