Veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan face huge challenges in adjusting to their return home. Watch a new animated video from the Institute of Medicine on this topic: http://www.iom.edu/cominghomevideo

Listen While You Work: Today the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council are hosting Research Priorities to Inform Public Health and Medical Practice for Domestic Ebola Virus Disease. Watch the live webcast at this link: http://buff.ly/1wseV71

Reports effecting change: Colorado mulls changes to photo lineups after our Identifying The Culprit report urges caution http://buff.ly/1t9R49q

A little-known way to browse the reports of the National Academies is by authoring division. It gives an insight into the research units of the Academies, but with even more granularity than you'd get browsing by topic. Check them all out here: http://buff.ly/1s466cZ

How cool is this? Cryosat, the European Space Agency’s ice mission, has been used to create a new gravity map, exposing thousands of previously unchartered ‘seamounts’, ridges and deep ocean structures. This vivid new picture of the least-explored part of the ocean offers fresh clues about how continents form and breakup.

This infographic is based on a new report that released today, Identifying the Culprit: Assessing Eyewitness Identification. This report makes the case that better data collection and research on eyewitness identification, new law enforcement training protocols, standardized procedures for administering line-ups, and improvements in the handling of eyewitness identification in court can increase the chances that accurate identifications are made. It’s free to download: http://buff.ly/1vRoZ8X

At the nexus of science and cuteness: In a new report in Nature Methods, researchers used a robotic chick to study emperor penguins. The remote controlled rover causes the animals less stress than humans do and may prove useful in studies of other wild populations. The penguins not only allowed the rover to approach, they even tried to vocalize to it and let it join a huddle of chicks.

(Photo credit: Y. Le Maho et al/Nature Methods 2014)

Announcing AcademyScope, a interactive visualization of all 5,400+ scientific reports on the NAP website. Explore and share: http://www.nap.edu/academy-scope

A new report published in Nature analyzes the DNA of a 45,000-year-old modern human leg bone recovered from Siberia in 2008, and finds that he lived a short time after Homo sapiens interbred with Neanderthals. According to paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, this ancient man belonged to a population that was related to earlier people who left Africa and split into European and Central Asian lines.

For a lot more on evolution, check out our collection of titles on the subject: http://buff.ly/1xdsa9t.

What's up with shale gas? We put a spotlight on five of our reports that explore the scientific evidence base for shale energy decision making: http://buff.ly/1zhXtFp

This Newsweek article about the CDC and Ebola has a few paragraphs about the impact of the landmark 1992 report by the IOM: "_Emerging Infections_ changed the way the U.S. thought about disease. 'Nobody had thought about quarantine for a hundred years'...this publication changed that." http://buff.ly/Ze0hmf

(quick link to the report itself: http://buff.ly/Ze0hmg)

This week, the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics went to three scientists who invented blue LED lights. Lamps based on LEDs offer new sources of illumination in a wide array of innovative designs. They have the potential of greater energy efficiency, longer lifetimes, and exceptional control over the color and hue of the light they emit. Check out the National Academies website The Promise of Better Lighting for everything you need to know about the potential of LEDs to change our everyday lives: http://buff.ly/1saYpX9.

The LED site is based on our report, Assessment of Advanced Solid State Lighting, which is free to download: http://buff.ly/1saYo5D