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Government Support for Computing Research
The past 50 years have witnessed a revolution in computing and related communications technologies. The contributions of industry and university resea...
Status, Prospects, and an Agenda for Research
STEM Integration in K-12 Education examines current efforts to connect the STEM disciplines in K-12 education. This report identifies and characterize...
A Workshop Report
Highly enriched uranium (HEU) is used for two major civilian purposes: as fuel for research reactors and as targets for medical isotope production. Th...
The modern telecommunications infrastructureâ€"made possible by research performed over the last several decadesâ€"is an essential element of th...
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Transforming education into an evidence-based field depends in no small part on a strong base of scientific knowledge to inform educational policy and...
A Tree for Solving Global Problems : Report of an Ad Hoc Panel of the Board on Science and Technology for International Development, National Research Council
Researchers, historians, and philosophers of science have debated the nature of scientific research in education for more than 100 years. Recent enthu...
Americans agree that our students urgently need better science education. But what should they be expected to know and be able to do? Can the same exp...
Managing an Integrated Program
In its fiscal year 2002 budget summary document the Bush administration expressed concern-based in part on the findings and conclusions of two Nationa...
In response to a request from Congress, Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years assesses the state of scientific efforts to recon...
Bridging Research and Practice
How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice provides a broad overview of research on learners and learning and on teachers and teaching. It expan...
Naturally occurring radionuclides are found throughout the earth's crust, and they form part of the natural background of radiation to which all human...
Driven by discoveries, and enabled by leaps in technology and imagination, our understanding of the universe has changed dramatically during the cours...
Report of the Committee on Algebraic Numbers, National Research Council
Status, Prospects, and Impediments
A component in the America's Energy Future study, Electricity from Renewable Resources examines the technical potential for electric power generation ...
Volume I: Grains
Scenes of starvation have drawn the world's attention to Africa's agricultural and environmental crisis. Some observers question whether this continen...
In recent years the number of complex humanitarian emergencies around the world has been steadily increasing. War and political, ethnic, racial, and r...
A Mandate for Change
Forests are valuable in our daily lives, crucial to our nation's ecomony, and integral to the long-term health of the environment. Yet, forestry resea...
Recognizing the increasing rate of species loss on a global scale and that neither pollution nor ecosystems respects political boundaries, cooperation...
Climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for-and in many cases is already affecting-a broad ran...
Improving the Outlook for Sustainability
This book addresses the technical, health, regulatory, and social aspects of ground water withdrawals, water use, and water quality in the metropolita...
Every 10 years the National Research Council releases a survey of astronomy and astrophysics outlining priorities for the coming decade. The most rece...
Using Science as Evidence in Public Policy encourages scientists to think differently about the use of scientific evidence in policy making. This repo...
U.S. Finance in the World Economy
Many questions have been raised about America's status in the increasingly interconnected global economy. Yet key factsâ€"such as the amount of for...
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...
Are variations in the energy generated by the Sun sufficient to modify the Earth's global environment at levels comparable to expected anthropogenic c...
An Update
Building Knowledge Through Evaluations and Research
Over the past 25 years, the United States has made support for the spread of democracy to other nations an increasingly important element of its natio...
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...
Federal agencies have taken steps to include the public in a wide range of environmental decisions. Although some form of public participation is ofte...
Technologies for Separations and Transmutation
Disposal of radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production and power generation has caused public outcry and political consternation. Nuclear Waste...
The nation has compelling reasons to reduce its consumption of oil and emissions of carbon dioxide. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) promise t...
A new book from the National Research Council recommends changes in how the federal government evaluates the efficiency of research at EPA and other a...
Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas
Science, engineering, and technology permeate nearly every facet of modern life and hold the key to solving many of humanity's most pressing current a...