The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

In his pathbreaking book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn argued that science does not advance by the simple accretion of knowledge through experimentation and observation. There ...

There’s a paradigm shift underway in our understanding of the past 4 million years of human evolution: ours is a story that includes combinations with other Homo species, spread unevenly across ...

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Like it or not, data is an integral part of any application, even cool object-oriented ones. Everything stops at the persistence layer, where Java developers traditionally have had to write complex ...

Advances in the environmental health sciences – from high-throughput cell-based in vitro studies to environment-wide association studies – have led to new approaches to understanding the toxicity of ...