When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...

Staff supporting Colorado policymakers and researchers explored how science can strengthen resilience across the state’s ...

The Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Standing Committee will hold a closed meeting to discuss progress and future goals needed ...

The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine announced today its ...

The National Academies hosted a recent workshop where attendees discussed emerging technologies in precision medicine and how ...

Legionnaires' disease, a pneumonia caused by the Legionella bacterium, is the leading cause of reported waterborne disease outbreaks in the United States. Legionella occur naturally in water from many ...

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 ...

After the passage of the Affordable Care Act, health reform entered a critical new phase. The health system has been strained by increasing demand and unsustainable costs. Too often, care decisions do ...

Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States, based in part on discussions at the colloquium, concludes that if projected future increases in use of corn for ethanol production do ...

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 ...

The Institute of Medicine, through its Food and Nutrition Board (FNB), as part of the continuing activity to develop Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) for nutrients, undertook an 18-month study to ...

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 ...