The health and safety of crew are crucial to the U.S. maritime industry, a sector of critical importance to the nation’s ...

In response to a request for information late last year from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the ...

A wide variety of organizations, agencies, and groups provide guidance on how and what to feed infants and young chidren. The extent to which that guidance is aligned and is based on scientific ...

Driving progress for the benefit of society by providing independent, objective advice to advance science, engineering, and medicine.

This study will update and extend How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (2000) by examining the research that has emerged across various disciplines that focus on the study of learning ...

Military personnel, who are often exposed to a variety of hazards while deployed, have expressed concerns that mental, behavioral, and neurologic health issues may arise from these exposures. The U.S.

There are numerous challenges to providing high quality STEM education and workforce development in rural areas. Recognizing these challenges, the National Academies was directed to undertake a ...

The undertaking of research in human participants often includes development of clinical laboratory test results associated with an individual research participant. Depending in part on the specified ...

In the past decade, a number of state, local, and tribal jurisdictions have begun to take significant steps to overhaul their juvenile justice systems - for example, reducing the use of juvenile ...

A respected resource for decades, the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals has been updated by a committee of experts, taking into consideration input from the scientific and laboratory ...

This important book for scientists and nonscientists alike calls attention to a most urgent global problem: the rapidly accelerating loss of plant and animal species to increasing human population ...