The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Environmental Health Matters Initiative organized a webinar series to explore human exposure to and related health effects of ...

Roughly 53 million people in the U.S. provide care to a family member such as a child with complex medical needs, an aging ...

Declining seat space for passengers on commercial airplanes, coupled with the growing prevalence of larger passengers in the ...

The fund will be managed by a secretariat housed within the NAS, which will appoint an external oversight board of international experts in science, science policy, and innovation to identify ...

Our exhibitions explore relationships among the arts and sciences, engineering, and medicine. The NAS Building is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays. A government-issued photo ID ...

A new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examines the ...

The Roundtable on Plastics provides a multi-sectoral forum for examining issues associated with national efforts to reduce plastic pollution. The roundtable activities will cover all aspects of the ...

Project scientists and others gathered at the National Academy of Sciences building to see the first images from the new Vera ...

Cyber-physical systems can also rise to the supply-and-demand-related challenges associated with ecological problems and resource constraints. The scarcity of drinking water due to the vagaries of ...

Calcium and vitamin D are essential nutrients for the human body. Establishing the levels of these nutrients that are needed by the North American population is based on the understanding of the ...

The Ford Foundation Fellowships are no longer accepting applications for dissertation awards. Award offers for the final cohort were made in 2024. Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowships provide one ...

A committee of experts will conduct a study examining the current landscape of newborn screening (NBS) systems, processes, and research in the United States and consider sustainable adoption of ...