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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...

All galaxies host a supermassive black hole at their centers, at least a million times the mass of the Sun. Material falling onto these monsters can be as bright as the galaxy itself, or it may be ...

Jonathan Wynn, currently on sabbatical from the University of South Florida where he is an associate professor in the School of Geosciences, will give a talk titled “Rapid sea-ice melt, freshwater ...

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 ...

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 ...