Earlier this month, the Vanderbilt Center for Sustainability, Energy, and Climate held its annual symposium in partnership with the National Academies’ New Voices in Sciences, Engineering, and ...

A new digital report from the National Academies provides an assessment of marine carbon dioxide removal and will be regularly updated to keep pace with advances in this rapidly evolving field.

This standing committee will explore the implications of global basic and applied research in the era of strategic competition, identify areas where opportunities for Five Eye alliance nation ...

Early-career researchers selected for the 2026 Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship program, who recently began their 12-week assignments at the National Academies, ...

Active shooter drills have become a standard practice in many U.S. schools, yet their potential impact on students and educators has received limited attention. Following a listening session series ...

WASHINGTON — Congress should continue to provide reliable funding for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, as it plays a unique and valuable role in the nation’s energy innovation ecosystem, ...

The National Academy of Sciences was founded on the enduring principle that our nation deserves the best available scientific knowledge. Our core mission is to deploy science in service to the nation ...

Event attribution seeks to tease out the influence of human-caused climate change on specific weather and climate events. This study will update and expand on the 2016 National Academies report, ...

WASHINGTON — Renowned evolutionary biologist Neil H. Shubin took office today as the president of the National Academy of Sciences. Also today, Monica M. Bertagnolli, former director of the National ...

WASHINGTON — Droughts in the United States are becoming more intense and unpredictable, and the nation needs to develop a new drought assessment framework to better understand and address them, ...

WASHINGTON — To counteract emerging cyberthreats posed by artificial intelligence, the baseline level of cybersecurity across society must rise — including stronger security practices, improved ...

Crew members onboard commercial airlines are exposed to cosmic ionizing radiation at flight altitude from galactic sources. These exposures over time have a potential to adversely impact health. An ad ...