'The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) were developed by a group of 26 states working with...
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Adding It Up explores how students in pre-K through 8th grade learn mathematics and recommends ho...
Since 1959, the National Research Council (NRC), at the request of the National Institute of Stan...
Biological physics, or the physics of living systems, has emerged fully as a field of physics, al...
This report is the proceedings of a December 2001 international symposium in Washington, DC organ...
Infection with the influenza virus can have a serious effect on the health of people of all ages,...
The 2011 National Research Council decadal survey on biological and physical sciences in space, R...
The next decade of planetary science and astrobiology holds tremendous promise. New research will...
'Health literacy is the degree to which individuals can obtain, process, and understand the basic...
Every industrialized country is concerned with maintaining an adequate supply of individuals inte...
Enhancing the Effectiveness of Sustainability Partnerships
'Smoking-related diseases kill more Americans than alcohol, illegal drugs, murder and suicide com...
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The National Academies Global Forum on Innovations in Health Professional Education held a public...
Schools and Health is a readable and well-organized book on comprehensive school health programs ...
Only more recently has it been realized that the intense effort to care for and cure a child with...
U.S. Arctic waters north of the Bering Strait and west of the Canadian border encompass a vast ar...
The concept of utilizing big data to enable scientific discovery has generated tremendous excitem...
'Although health literacy is commonly defined as an individual trait, it does not depend on the s...
In 2023, the National Academies convened an expert committee to assess the current use of racial ...
This guide offers helpful advice on how teachers, administrators, and career advisors in science ...
The design, construction, operation, and retrofit of buildings is evolving in response to ever-in...
NASA's Earth Science Division (ESD) conducts a wide range of satellite and suborbital missions to...
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Suborbital flight activities, including the use of sounding rockets, aircraft, high-altitude ball...
'We live on a dynamic Earth shaped by both natural processes and the impacts of humans on their e...
The National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES),...
Quality of care is a priority for U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The agency's...
The Department of Veterans Affairs--the VA--operates the nation's largest and most diverse health...
In 'Biodiversity', Edward O. Wilson warned of the dangers of altering and destroying our environm...
Protecting and maintaining water distributions systems is crucial to ensuring high quality drinki...
As part of the Vision for Space Exploration (VSE), NASA is planning for humans to revisit the Moo...
This book is the third in a series of five brief reports that aim to inform ASPE analyses that ac...
'Workshop on Improving Collection of Indicators of Criminal Justice System Involvement in Populat...
For the first time, a report focuses specifically on middle childhood--a discrete, pivotal period...
National Priorities for the Assessment of Clinical Conditions and Medical Technologies
Infectious diseases are a global hazard that puts every nation and every person at risk. The rece...
In 2005, the National Academies released the report Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Rese...
In Advancing Prion Science, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Transmissible Spongiform Enc...
In the early years of robotics and automated vehicles, the fight was against nature and not again...
Years of using, misusing, and overusing antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs has led to the ...
'In September 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a worksh...
In developing countries, traditional fermentation serves many purposes. It can improve the taste ...