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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A lack of action on long-standing issues coupled with recent societal disruptions has led to growing tensions and challenges between graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and the faculty and ...

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 ...

A standing committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will address the following needs of the marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) community: Creation of a digital, ...

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 ...

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, ...