"The technical and cultural boundaries between modeling, simulation, and games are increasingly blurring, providing broader access to capabilities in modeling and simulation and further credibility to
America's economy and lifestyles have been shaped by the low prices and ready availability of energy. In the last decade, however, the prices of oil, natural gas, and coal have increased dramatically
America's Climate Choices is a coordinated set of activities convened in response to a request from Congress to "study the serious and sweeping issues associated with global climate change, including
Responding to a request from the US Congress, the National Research Council presents a report on actions available to the US government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, both by taking domestic meas
The ocean is still pretty base, with a pH of 8.1, but that is down from 8.2 at the beginning of the industrial revolution. The acidification is due to the ocean absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmos
Less than a month after the September 11, 2001 attacks, letters containing spores of anthrax bacteria (Bacillus anthracis, or B. anthracis) were sent through the U.S. mail. Between October 4 and Novem
"The charge of the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) is to provide biennial assessments of the scientific and technical quality of the research, development, and analysis pr
We live in a changing world with multiple and evolving threats to national security, including terrorism, asymmetrical warfare (conflicts between agents with different military powers or tactics), and
A committee appointed to the task assesses both the demonstrated and the underdeveloped potential of the deep-time geological record to inform people about the dynamics of the global climate system in
"Chronic diseases are common and costly, yet they are also among the most preventable health problems. Comprehensive and accurate disease surveillance systems are needed to implement successful effort
As the United States continues to be a nation of immigrants and their children, the nation's school systems face increased enrollments of students whose primary language is not English. With the 2001
Since 1970, radar, sonar, and other techniques have discovered more than 145 lakes underneath the ice of Antarctica, the largest about the same size as Lake Ontario. Rivers, streams, swamps, and other
Formaldehyde is ubiquitous in indoor and outdoor air, and everyone is exposed to formaldehyde at some concentration daily. Formaldehyde is used to produce a wide array of products, particularly buildi
In 2007, the Department of Defense asked for a lot of money to convert some of its submarine missile fleet to launch non-nuclear missiles that could hit within meters of their targets, anywhere in the
... 1995b); Satellite Gravity and the GeoSphere: Contributions to the Study of the Solid Earth and Its Fluid Envelope (NRC, 1997a); The Global Positioning ...
write, edit, send it to the editor, re-write, add sidebars, resubmit, fact check, ... The students had news teams, supervised by a teacher and guidance ...
