Elijah was a 2023 award winner of the National Academies’ Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science ...

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, ...

Connecting policymakers with the National Academies ...

As artificial intelligence increasingly becomes a part of daily life, the National Academies are advising the government on AI use, policy, ethics, and innovation. Explore our work, from making ...

This report describes and assesses different activities, products, strategies, and tools for informing decision makers about climate change and helping them plan and execute effective, integrated ...

Scientific advances over the past several decades have accelerated the ability to engineer existing organisms and to potentially create novel ones not found in nature. This report explores and ...

The transformation of the United States’ energy system provides unprecedented opportunities for leadership in innovation, ...

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 ...

An ad hoc multidisciplinary committee explored what is known about effective science communication and described a comprehensive research agenda to improve the communication of science to inform ...

This report provides evidence for the decline of some pollinator species in North America, including America's most important managed pollinator, the honey bee, as well as some butterflies, bats, and ...

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 ...

This study, mandated in section 1421 of the FY 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, is to look at contained technologies that can be used instead of open burning o open detonation to treat the ...