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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Society is an American nonprofit scientific and educational organization founded in Washington, D.C. in 1888, known for grants to Explorers and National Geographic magazine.
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is a CDC program of nationally representative health surveys, combining interviews, physical exams, and laboratory tests for about 5,000 Americans each year.
National Health Interview Survey
The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) is a CDC household interview survey, conducted since 1957, that monitors the health of the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population.
National Hurricane Center
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is a US government office in Miami, part of NOAA's National Weather Service, that forecasts tropical cyclones in the Atlantic and eastern North Pacific.
National hydrographic services and their surveyors
National hydrographic services are government agencies that survey a country's waters and produce its nautical charts, coordinated by the International Hydrographic Organization, with surveyors trained under IHO-recognized programs.
National Ignition Facility
The National Ignition Facility is a 192-beam laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, where the first controlled fusion experiment achieved ignition in December 2022, producing 3.15 megajoules.
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) is one of Japan's largest public research organizations, a national agency under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is a US National Institutes of Health institute in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, researching how the environment affects human health.
National Institute of Hydrology (India)
The National Institute of Hydrology (NIH; राष्ट्रीय जलविज्ञान संस्थान) is India's autonomous hydrology research society, established in 1978 and headquartered at Roorkee, Uttarakhand, under the Ministry of Jal Shakti.
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) is a Japanese research agency that generates and distributes Japan Standard Time from atomic clocks in Tokyo.
National Institute of Metrology (China)
The National Institute of Metrology (中国计量科学研究院, NIM) is China's national metrology institute, its highest research facility for measurement science, established in 1955 and affiliated with the State Administration for Market Regulation.
National Institute of Oceanography, India
The National Institute of Oceanography, also known as the Indian National Institute of Oceanography, is an autonomous research institute of CSIR in Goa, India, established in 1966.
National Institute of Radiological Sciences
The National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS, 放射線医学総合研究所) was a Japanese institute in Chiba that pioneered carbon-ion cancer therapy and operated the HIMAC accelerator until 2016.
National Institute of Standards (Egypt)
The National Institute for Standards (NIS) is Egypt's national metrology institute. Established in 1963, it maintains the country's primary measurement standards from its headquarters in Giza.
National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Argentina)
The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) is Argentina's national statistical office, created by law in 1968 to run the national census and produce official indicators like the consumer price index.
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) was a New Zealand Crown Research Institute, established in 1992, that researched freshwater, oceans, the atmosphere, and climate.
National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. federal medical research agency under HHS, founded 1887 as the Hygienic Laboratory; 27 Institutes and Centers in Bethesda, Maryland, with a nearly $48 billion budget, about 82 percent awarded as extramural grants.
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center is the research hospital of the US National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, opened in 1953 and described as the world's largest hospital dedicated solely to clinical research.
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) is a pair of United States panel surveys, sponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that follow young people for decades.
National Metrology Institute of Japan
The National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ; 計量標準総合センター) is Japan's national metrology institute, a center within AIST in Tsukuba responsible for the country's national measurement standards.
National Oceanography Centre
The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is the United Kingdom's lead research institution for marine science, based in Southampton and Liverpool and running the research ships Discovery and James Cook.
National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the United Kingdom's national metrology institute, founded in 1900, where Louis Essen built the first accurate caesium atomic clock in 1955.
National Physical Laboratory of India
The National Physical Laboratory of India (राष्ट्रीय भौतिक प्रयोगशाला) is India's national metrology institute in New Delhi, custodian of the country's measurement standards and Indian Standard Time.
National physics societies by country and region
The list of national physics societies by country and region covers the principal physics society of each territory, from Germany's 1845 society, the world's largest, to regional federations in Europe and Asia-Pacific.
National Quantum Initiative Act
The National Quantum Initiative Act is a United States federal law signed December 21, 2018, authorizing quantum research at NIST, NSF, and the Department of Energy.
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) is a National Science Foundation-funded US radio astronomy facility founded in 1956, operating telescopes including the VLA and ALMA, headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, founded in 1977 as the Solar Energy Research Institute, was a Department of Energy national laboratory in Golden, Colorado, dedicated to renewable energy research.
National Sample Survey
The National Sample Survey is India's continuing household survey program, run since 1950 and serving as the principal source of official data on consumption, employment, and poverty.
National Science Education Standards
The National Science Education Standards (NSES) are voluntary K-12 science standards published by the National Research Council in 1996, replaced by the Next Generation Science Standards in 2013.
National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility
The National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility, formerly the National Ice Core Laboratory, is a US repository in Lakewood, Colorado, storing over 22,000 meters of ice cores.