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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Delivered by NAS President Marcia McNutt The second annual State of the Science address explored the current status of the U.S. research enterprise and strategies for navigating a rapidly changing ...

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 consensus report Blueprint for a National Prevention Infrastructure for Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorder was released on April 9, 2025. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, ...

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 ...