This volume examines the influences of technology and international trade policies on the trouble...

'Synthetic biology -- unlike any research discipline that precedes it -- has the potential to byp...

Strengthening U.S.-Russian Cooperation on Nuclear Nonproliferation: Recommendations for Action of...

This publication features papers presented at the Workshop on Cleaning Up Sites Contaminated with...

This book is devoted primarily to papers prepared by American and Russian specialists on cyber te...

The Republic of Indonesia, home to over 240 million people, is the world's fourth most populous n...

This collection of papers -- by American and Russian specialists -- addresses a variety of legal,...

In July 2005, the National Academies released the report Strengthening Long-term Nuclear Security...

'Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security addresses topics such as the e...

Assesses the options and possibilities for a sustainable federal budget. This comprehensive book ...

The so-called nuclear renaissance has increased worldwide interest in nuclear power. This potenti...

As part of a long-standing collaboration on nuclear nonproliferation, the National Academy of Sci...

In October 2003, a group of experts met in Beijing under the auspices of the Chinese Academy of S...

High school graduation and dropout rates have long been used as indicators of educational system ...

The United States faces a new challenge--maintaining the vitality of its system for supporting sc...

'The U.S. National Academies have had an ongoing program of cooperation with the Chinese Academie...

The National Science Foundation requested that the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public ...

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'The committee preparing this report, the Committee on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math...

'Committee on US-Iranian Workshop on Water Conservation and Recycling, in cooperation with the Ac...

All critical infrastructures are increasingly dependent on the information infrastructure for inf...

In January-February 2005, the National Academies Committee on Counterterrorism Challenges for Rus...

Few countries have endured as many attacks of terrorism during the past two decades as has Russia...

Spurred on by new discoveries and rapid technological advances, the capacity for life science res...

During the last decade, national and international scientific organizations have become increasin...

Hurricane Katrina, which struck New Orleans and surrounding areas in August 2005, ranks as one of...

'In cooperation with the Russian Academy of Sciences.'

The announcement of a hydrogen fuel initiative in the President's 2003 State of the Union speech ...

Given the growing importance of cyberspace to nearly all aspects of national life, a secure cyber...

In June 2001 the National Academies and the Russian Academy of Sciences held a bilateral workshop...

Boston's Central Artery Tunnel Project, a 7.8 mile system of bridges and underground highways and...

Quick introduction of new technology is essential to America's competitiveness. But the success o...

'Value-added methods refer to efforts to estimate the relative contributions of specific teachers...

From earliest times, human beings have noticed patterns in nature: night and day, tides and lunar...

The United States and China are the top two energy consumers in the world. As a consequence, they...

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'The project, Anticipating Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-containment Bio...

Papers presented at a symposium of the 136th Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Sciences.

The U.S. National Academies and the Russian Academy of Sciences convened a joint workshop to iden...

Highly enriched uranium (HEU) is used for two major civilian purposes: as fuel for research react...

Growing concerns about climate change partly as a result of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emission...

This report is the proceedings of a December 2001 international symposium in Washington, DC organ...

In the last half-century, we have witnessed the birth and development of a new era: the informati...

The National Research Council hosted an interacademy workshop in Yekaterinburg, Russia together w...

Supercomputers are the ultimate engine of the information age. By generating and processing vast ...

International workshop held at the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The Outlook for Science and Technology 1985

In the fall of 2010, the U.S. National Academies (consisting of the National Academy of Sciences,...