As rapid advances in AI continue to raise concerns about how it can be pursued safely without stifling technological progress, the National Academies have been at the forefront of efforts to better ...

WASHINGTON — Congress should continue to provide reliable funding for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, as it plays a unique and valuable role in the nation’s energy innovation ecosystem, ...

The National Academies is conducting a rapid expert consultation to examine gaps in crisis standards of care (CSC) frameworks and identify opportunities to strengthen their development, implementation ...

The National Academy of Sciences was founded on the enduring principle that our nation deserves the best available scientific knowledge. Our core mission is to deploy science in service to the nation ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine provides a comprehensive assessment of the current capabilities of extreme event attribution (EEA) — a ...

Event attribution seeks to tease out the influence of human-caused climate change on specific weather and climate events. This study will update and expand on the 2016 National Academies report, ...

WASHINGTON — Renowned evolutionary biologist Neil H. Shubin took office today as the president of the National Academy of Sciences. Also today, Monica M. Bertagnolli, former director of the National ...

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the U.S. Southwest has been weathering the nation's first multidecadal megadrought, the most severe of many such droughts over the past 1,200 years.

WASHINGTON — To counteract emerging cyberthreats posed by artificial intelligence, the baseline level of cybersecurity across society must rise — including stronger security practices, improved ...