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Winners Selected for the TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program’s 2024-2025 University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs

The Transportation Research Board’s Airport Cooperative Research Program has selected winners for its latest University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs. This annual competition ...
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Civic Science Media: Reimagining How We Communicate Science

A 2022 award winner of the National Academies’ Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications, J.D. Allen discusses his civic science media framework, his nuclear energy ...
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National Institutes of Health Need Agencywide Strategy to Prioritize and Fund Pediatric Research, Says New Report

Childhood health is foundational to lifelong well-being. A new National Academies report makes recommendations on how NIH and ...
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Gulf Research Program Awards over $7 Million to Advance Scientific Understanding of Sea-Level Variation and Rise in the Gulf Region

The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine today announced an award of more than $7.3 million to support four interdisciplinary research projects ...
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National Academies Respond to OSTP Request for Information on Accelerating the U.S. Research Enterprise

In response to a request for information late last year from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the ...
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Pay and Working Conditions in the Long-Distance Truck and Bus Industries: Assessing for Effects on Driver Safety and Retention

For-hire trucking—as opposed to in-house private carriers that transport the goods of their parent company—is a large and heterogeneous industry with considerable variability in carrier sizes, ...
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A Decadal Assessment of Plasma Science

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will conduct the Decadal Assessment of Plasma Science with support from the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the Air ...
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Committee on Radio Frequencies

The standing Committee on Radio Frequencies (CORF) considers the needs for radio frequency requirements and interference ...
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Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases and US Climate: Evidence and Impacts

Decades of climate research and data have yielded expanded understanding of how greenhouse gases affect the climate. This fast-track study will review the latest scientific evidence on whether ...
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To Improve Breastfeeding Rates in U.S., Report Recommends Creating National Strategy, Enacting Paid Federal Family and Medical Leave

A new National Academies report makes recommendations to promote and support breastfeeding in United States, including a national strategy to ensure mothers and families have access to effective ...
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Coordinated Strategy Needed to Ensure Active Shooter Drill Practices in Schools Protect Mental and Emotional Health of Students, Says New Report

WASHINGTON — A new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine calls for a unified policy and research agenda to ensure the mental, emotional, ...
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Exploring How to Power AI Sustainably

As the demand for artificial intelligence (AI) surges in everything from business to science to art, the power-intensive data centers needed to run AI tools and applications are straining the nation’s ...