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 ...

Native plant materials —including seeds, cuttings, and young plants grown in containers—are essential to restoring and sustaining healthy ecosystems, especially as climate change is accelerating ...

A series of major scientific studies conducted in the 1980s in response to the buildup of U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals during the Cold War issued warnings about the potential for a “nuclear ...

If you were able to catch the last webinar from our Chemical Sciences Roundtable, “ Chemistry in 2050– Space ” you know that it was out of this world, literally and figuratively. The webinar explored ...

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 ...

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 ...

The study is intended to focus on diagnostics and treatment of Lyme IACI symptoms and not to improve diagnostics and treatment for acute Lyme disease. As such, the prevention of Lyme disease ...

The Convocation on the Status of Informal Science and Engineering Education is a 2-day event that will bring together the research, practice, policy, and philanthropic communities to take stock of the ...

Please join the National Academies for a webinar on July 15 th from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm ET to explore its new report and how the United States can better align spending with therapeutic needs to ...

Project scientists and others gathered at the National Academy of Sciences building to see the first images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory, named after the trailblazing astronomer and NAS ...

From fiscal years 2013 to 2023, the FAA hired only two-thirds of the air traffic controllers called for by its staffing models. By fiscal year 2024, nearly a third of air traffic control facilities ...