Spectropolarimetry (specpol) is a powerful, albeit underutilized, tool that offers insights into the geometry and shape of unresolved astrophysical sources. This technique holds particular ...

“Gentlemen, your work now begins, your aims are high, you seek to expand known forces, to discover and utilize unknown forces for the benefit of man. Than this there can scarcely be a greater work. I ...

For 123 years, Carnegie Science researchers have had the freedom and flexibility to pursue bold, potentially transformative ideas. Their work has reshaped our understanding of life, our planet, and ...

Plants cannot escape from their environment. They are poised to live and die where they were born. As a results, to survive the (sometimes harsh) conditions imposed to them by their direct environment ...

Sarah Hörst, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University's Earth & Planetary Sciences Department, will present her lecture in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road Campus as ...

Symbiosis refers to mutually beneficial interactions between different organisms. Endosymbiosis is a type of symbiosis in which one organism lives inside another organism. Endosymbiotic relationships ...

Fred Lipschultz will present his lecture in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road Campus. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be served before the lecture, at 10:30 a.m.

Nina Fedoroff is the first to clone and characterize maize transposons, or "jumping genes." With this pioneering work, Fedoroff advanced with molecular methods the genetic discoveries that Carnegie ...

Barbara Romanowicz, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, will give a talk titled "Mantle Plumes Rooted at the Core-mantle Boundary: Evidence from Seismic Waveform Tomography" at 11 ...

Jay Myron Pasachoff will present his lecture in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road Campus. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be served before the lecture, at 10:30 a.m.

With over 4,000 exoplanet discoveries to date, we have caught a glimpse of the broad diversity of planets that span a range of masses, compositions, and orbital configurations. The next chapter in ...

Postdoctoral Fellow Peng Ni received his B.S. from Peking University and his Ph.D. in Geochemistry from the University of Michigan. He is an experimental geochemist who seeks to understand the ...