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The Core of Matter, The Fuel of Stars
Dramatic progress has been made in all branches of physics since the National Research Council's 1986 decadal survey of the field. The Physics in a Ne...
This report summarizes the 2019 findings of the Panel on Review of Extramural Basic Research at the Army Research Laboratory, which reviewed the progr...
Designing an Adaptive System
Traditionally, engineering education books describe and reinforce unchanging principles that are basic to the field. However, the dramatic changes in ...
Revealing the Secrets of Energy and Matter
Part of the Physics in a New Era series of assessments of the various branches of the field, Elementary-Particle Physics reviews progress in the field...
The modern telecommunications infrastructureâ€"made possible by research performed over the last several decadesâ€"is an essential element of th...
The Science of the World Around Us
The development of transistors, the integrated circuit, liquid-crystal displays, and even DVD players can be traced back to fundamental research pione...
Fiscal Year 2008
The mission of the NIST Physics Laboratory is to support U.S. industry, government, and the scientific community by providing measurement services and...
Addressing Grand Challenges
Environmental engineers support the well-being of people and the planet in areas where the two intersect. Over the decades the field has improved coun...
The central characteristic of the evolution of the combat soldier in recent years is an increasingly sophisticated array of sensing, communications, a...
Many federal funding requests for more advanced computer resources assume implicitly that greater computing power creates opportunities for advancemen...
An Overview
Physics at the beginning of the twenty-first century has reached new levels of accomplishment and impact in a society and nation that are changing rap...
Optical Science and Engineering for the 21st Century
Optical science and engineering affect almost every aspect of our lives. Millions of miles of optical fiber carry voice and data signals around the wo...
Computational methods are rapidly becoming major tools of theoretical, pharmaceutical, materials, and biological chemists. Accordingly, the mathematic...
One of the pathways by which the scientific community confirms the validity of a new scientific discovery is by repeating the research that produced i...
Current Status and Future Directions
The Committee to Assess the Current Status and Future Direction of High Magnetic Field Science in the United States was convened by the National Resea...
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) communicates its science and engineering (...
Forging Stronger Links to Users
Materials are the foundation and fabric of manufactured products. In fact, many leading commercial products and military systems could not exist witho...
From Fundamental Research to Technological Applications
Plasma science is the study of ionized states of matter. This book discusses the field's potential contributions to society and recommends actions tha...
The Role of Life and Physical Sciences
During its more than 50-year history, NASA's success in human space exploration has depended on the agency's ability to effectively address a wide ran...
NASA's Large Strategic Science Missions
NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) currently operates over five dozen missions, with approximately two dozen additional missions in development....
Fiscal Year 2007
The report on the EEEL presents an assessment of the Lab's four divisions. The assessment is based on four criteria: alignment with national prioritie...
Options for the Fifth New Frontiers Announcement of Opportunity
The Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Sciences of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is tasked with monitoring the pr...
Advances in materials science and engineering have paved the way for the development of new and more capable sensors. Drawing upon case studies from m...
Understanding of protons and neutrons, or "nucleons"â€"the building blocks of atomic nucleiâ€"has advanced dramatically, both theoretically and ...
White Papers
This book contains a key component of the NII 2000 project of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, a set of white papers that contribute...
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In 2003, NASA began an R&D effort to develop nuclear power and propulsion systems for solar system exploration. This activity, renamed Project Prometh...
In January 2004, President Bush announced a new space policy directed at human and robotic exploration of space. In June 2004, the President's Commiss...
Meeting the Nation's Telecommunications Needs
The Department of Commerce operates two telecommunications research laboratories located at the Department of Commerce's Boulder, Colorado, campus: th...
Report of a Workshop
Fulfilling the President's Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) will require overcoming many challenges. Among these are the hazards of space radiation ...
The search for life in the solar system and beyond has to date been governed by a model based on what we know about life on Earth (terran life). Most ...
Progress and Prospects
Quantum mechanics, the subfield of physics that describes the behavior of very small (quantum) particles, provides the basis for a new paradigm of com...
Assessment and Perspectives
This report is the result of a fast-track study of U.S. mathematical sciences research institutes done in response to a request from the National Scie...
The nation has compelling reasons to reduce its consumption of oil and emissions of carbon dioxide. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) promise t...
In 1995, the National Science Foundation (NSF) created a special account to fund large (several tens of millions of dollars) research facilities. Over...
Panel Reports
In preparing the report, Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millenium , the AASC made use of a series of panel reports that address various aspects...
According to the big bang theory, our Universe began in a state of unimaginably high energy and density, contained in a space of subatomic dimensions....
While major oil spills are rare, oil slicks can have disastrous environmental and economic consequences. This book summarizes research on the use of c...
A Science for a Technological Society: An Overview
In 2010, NASA and the National Science Foundation asked the National Research Council to assemble a committee of experts to develop an integrated nati...
Addressing Grand Challenges, 2018
"The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a committee of prominent environmental engineers, scientists, and policy exper...