More than 3.7 million U.S. service members have participated in operations taking place in the So...

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative was launched in 2003 to stimulate new modes of sci...

The environment for obtaining information and providing statistical data for policy makers and th...

Over the last few decades, research, activity, and funding has been devoted to improving the recr...

Advances in genetics and genomics are transforming medical practice, resulting in a dramatic grow...

Emissions associated with oil and gas exploration, development, and production on the Gulf waters...

Environmental engineers support the well-being of people and the planet in areas where the two in...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has played a key role over the past several decades in adva...

Natural environments provide enormously valuable, but largely unappreciated, services that aid hu...

The U.S. Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a technical study on lessons ...

The United States manufactured significant quantities of chemical weapons during the Cold War and...

Late last year, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) convened a workshop on Preparing the En...