Early-career researchers selected for the 2026 Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship program, who recently began their 12-week assignments at the National Academies, ...

Recognizing wildfires as an increasingly complex public health and health care challenge, the National Academies’ Forum on ...

A new congressionally mandated National Academies report is bringing renewed attention to those questions, recommending a ...

The Transportation Research Board’s Airport Cooperative Research Program announced eight recipients of this year’s ACRP ...

Emerging research institutions — which by statute spend less than $50 million in federal research funding annually — are ...

The National Academies’ Gulf Research Program announced today its 2026 cohort of Science Policy Fellows. Beginning Sept. 1, the 12 fellows will spend one year on the staff of federal, state, and local ...

Chemistry and chemical engineering are fundamental to technologies that could revolutionize energy production, quantum ...

Flood Resilience across the Commonwealth, held March 27, 2026, in Charlottesville, researchers, local and state officials, ...

As the result of a mandate from Congress, the National Academies will explore the issues of reproducibility and replication in scientific and engineering research. The committee will explore what is ...

This year, the CHR marks a half a century of work to safeguard human rights and deepen understanding of the connections between human rights and science, engineering, and medicine. Visit the CHR’s ...

Health care quality is a multidimensional concept. With support from six private foundations, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a committee to examine the ...

On Being a Scientist was designed to supplement the informal lessons in ethics provided by research supervisors and mentors. The book describes the ethical foundations of scientific practices and some ...