The health and safety of crew are crucial to the U.S. maritime industry, a sector of critical importance to the nation’s ...

A wide variety of organizations, agencies, and groups provide guidance on how and what to feed infants and young chidren. The extent to which that guidance is aligned and is based on scientific ...

A respected resource for decades, the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals has been updated by a committee of experts, taking into consideration input from the scientific and laboratory ...

In the past decade, a number of state, local, and tribal jurisdictions have begun to take significant steps to overhaul their juvenile justice systems - for example, reducing the use of juvenile ...

As the opioid epidemic continues to cause suffering for millions of Americans, the United States government is responding in many different ways. In 2016, lawmakers passed the Comprehensive Addiction ...

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The committee will make recommendations for strategies for developing assessments that validly measure student proficiency in science as laid out in the new K-12 science education framework. The ...

This consensus study committee examined the U.S. strategy for reducing biosecurity risks in life sciences research and considered mechanisms that would allow researchers to manage the dissemination of ...

Although often excluded from research on social and economic development, women’s empowerment has been an important factor. Women contribute to social and economic development as workers, mothers, and ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones. These first steps will be the result of decades of research, engineering, and imagination coming together, marking ...

The Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032 will assess key scientific questions in planetary science and astrobiology, identify priority medium- and large-class missions and other ...

Co-production is a methodology that leverages the expertise of practitioners and community members to develop holistic solutions to multifaceted problems at the intersection of society and the ...