President Barack Obama’s Speech to the National Academy of Sciences [Full Transcript]
Yesterday morning, the National Academy of Sciences had the honor of celebrating its 150th anniversary with a speech by President Barack Obama. The President reflected on Abraham Lincoln’s founding of the National Academy of Sciences 150 years ago and asserted the importance of setting priorities for research, continuing our nation’s scientific advance, and maintaining our [...]
What’s New? Announcing the Improved “New Titles From NAP” Page
There are thousands of National Academies reports to browse on nap.edu, and more publications are being added all the time. In 2012, we published an average of six new books a week on dozens of science topics. We offer an email list and RSS feed to keep up with what’s new, but did you know that [...]
Seven New Books: Sea Turtles, Space Exploration, and more
This past week, there were seven new publications on the NAP site, six of which have free PDFs. There were prepublications covering space exploration, climate, and sea turtles. All New Publications This Week Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millenia (prepublication) Get It Now (Free PDF) Read Online For Free Assessment [...]
Five New Books: Weather Science, Drug Safety, and more
Our usual collection of the new publications to NAP.edu this week includes a number of books on health and medicine, as well as a prepublication on weather. Four of the five new books this week have Free PDFs available to download. All New Publications This Week When Weather Matters: Science and Service to Meet Critical [...]
16 New Books: Greenhouse Gases, Gulf War and Health, Helium Reserve, and more
I hope that those of you in the U.S. had a happy and relaxing Independence Day weekend. We welcome you back to the working week with one of the biggest lists of new books that we’ve had since we’ve started posting them once a week here on Notes From NAP. There’s sixteen of them, the [...]
Eight New Books: Health Care, Mental Health Counseling, and more…
Another Monday brings us another roundup of the new books on the NAP website in the past week. As always, any books that have Free PDFs are labeled as such below. Check out the full article to see all the new books released this week.
Six New Books: Health Care, Science Careers, and more…
There are six new books to the NAP website, all of which are final versions. Frequent readers of Notes From NAP may notice that the titles usually have “(final)” or “(prepublication)” after the title. We often release “prepublication” versions, which are uncorrected proofs of the books in order to get the research to the public [...]
Four New Science Books: Food Safety, Energy Efficiency, and more…
Last week brought us four new reports to the NAP site, including our featured publication in the Food and nutrition topic, Enhancing Food Safety, covering an important topic with a snappy book cover. Featured Publication Enhancing Food Safety: The Role of the Food and Drug Administration (prepublication) Recent outbreaks of illnesses traced to contaminated sprouts [...]
Sounds of Science Podcast: Reducing the Sodium Intake in the United States
There’s a new episode available of our podcast, The Sounds Of Science. This week’s episode is on sodium intake and is based on our report Strategies to Reduce Sodium Intake in the United States. You can listen to this episode below, and you can subscribe to the podcast to get all the episodes delivered to [...]
Ten New Science Books: Lab Animals, Vaccines, Cancer Care, and more…
We’ve been a little quiet lately here at Notes From NAP, due largely to some technical tinkering we’ve needed to do as the summer quietly moves in, so our apologies. We’re back with a bang, though: Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals was released last week, and is our featured publication of [...]
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