The National Academy of Sciences was founded on the enduring principle that our nation deserves the best available scientific knowledge.  Our core mission is to deploy science in service to the nation ...
In a recent interview, Nicola Twilley talks about her reporting that followed scientists from the Institute for Mummy Studies ...
It’s been nearly a year since the National Academies’ Gulf Research Program (GRP) visited the site of the well #59 blowout in ...
The X-ray backscatter advanced imaging technology (AIT) system is based on the backscatter imaging device described by Steven W. Smith in 1991. 1 In summary, a well-collimated pencil-beam of X rays is ...
Vaccines do not cause autism. Many scientists have studied this question, but no credible studies show that autism is caused by vaccines. In 1998, a paper in the scientific journal The Lancet ...
From global shipping routes to the cables that power the internet, much of modern life depends on understanding a landscape that remains largely unmapped: the ocean floor. At the 27th annual Roger ...
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine shall convene an ad hoc survey committee and supporting study panels to carry out a decadal survey in astronomy and astrophysics. The ...
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