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 [...]
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 [...]
The science of oil spills and oil spill dispersants
While you’ve no doubt been reading plenty of news about the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, we’d like to offer you a different kind of reading: five books we’ve picked from the NAP collection that deal with the science of oil spills and oil spill dispersal. All of these books are available [...]
New books this week: Climate’s Influence on Human Evolution and more
Featured Publication Understanding Climate’s Influence on Human Evolution (prepublication) The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it means to be human, including the origins of bipedalism; the emergence of our genus Homo; the first use of stone tools; increases in brain size; and the [...]
February Focus on Energy
This month NAP is focusing on energy. Energy is a topic at the forefront of policy, the economy, and national security. Campaigns to “green” our way of life are everywhere you look. And by February, many of us have already encountered that shocking first heating bill of the season. The National Academies Press has an [...]
New Books: Gaming, Science Education, Water Quality and More
Our weekly roundup of the new books on the NAP site this week includes a technical assessment of modeling, simulation and gaming, a look at science education in the 21st century and a couple of publications around energy. Featured Publication The Rise of Games and High Performance Computing for Modeling and Simulation (prepublication) The technical [...]
New Publications: Alternative Transportation, Value In Health Care, and More
Our featured new publication this week is the final version of Weight Gain During Pregnancy, which is one of a bunch of new publications to include a free PDF download. Look for “download the free PDF” below each new title. Featured Publication Weight Gain During Pregnancy: Reexamining the Guidelines (final) As women of childbearing age [...]
New This Week: Health Literacy, Energy Efficiency, Biological Threats
Welcome to our weekly roundup of the publications new this week to nap.edu. Many of our publications have PDFs that you can download for free, but look in the “Download Free” section of each book’s main page for a free PDF of the executive summary if you’d like a sample of the book before you [...]
New Video: A New Biology For The 21st Century
A great new video from the Division of Earth And Life Sciences joins our growing stable of videos on the National Academies YouTube channel. The official description: “Following the release of a National Academies report on the future of biological science, three of the study’s authors discuss its key findings. A New Biology for the [...]
New Publications Released This Week
It’s Friday, which means we take our weekly look back at the new publications on the NAP website. We’re spotlighting the prepublication of Surrounded By Science: Learning Science in Informal Environments, and just below that is a list of all the publications that have hit the website in the past week. Feel free to use [...]
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