The integrity of knowledge that emerges from research is based on individual and collective adherence to core values of objectivity, honesty, openness, fairness, accountability, and stewardship.

This is a meeting of the CMMRC to connect with the committee's sponsors. A public agenda and connection information will be ...

The National Academies will establish an expert committee of approximately 14 members to carry out a scientific study of the environmental impacts of wind-energy projects, focusing on the Mid-Atlantic ...

Adolescence—beginning with the onset of puberty and ending in the mid-20s—is a critical period of development during which key areas of the brain mature and develop. These changes in brain structure, ...

Myopia, or nearsightedness, is a common type of refractive error where close objects appear clearly, but objects farther away appear blurred. Although this vision ...

The relatively young science of extreme event attribution seeks to tease out the influence of human-cause climate change from other factors, such as natural sources of variability like El Niño, as ...

The committee of Nutrient Requirements of Poultry: 10th Revised Edition will prepare an update to the 1994 Ninth Edition. The committee will prepare a report that reviews the scientific literature on ...

The committee was tasked to examine potential approaches, along with their relative merits and challenges, for a comprehensive update to the current methodology for estimating the social cost of ...

This activity will focus on trying to understand the barriers facing two- and four-year undergraduates who intend to major in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and opportunities ...

The Science of Team Science is a new interdisciplinary field that empirically examines the processes by which large and small scientific teams, research centers, and institutes organize, communicate, ...

Coral reefs are threatened by rapidly deteriorating environmental conditions that are warmer, less favorable for calcification, have impaired water quality, and pose continuing disease threats. Coral ...

Historic mining activities near Coeur d’Alene Lake in Northern Idaho have contaminated millions of tons of lake sediments with metals. Since enacting environmental regulations in the mid-1970s, metal ...