In the years following World War II, a small group of physicists at Carnegie Science's former Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM), which is now part of the Earth and Planets Laboratory, made an ...

Joseph Gall, often called the "father of modern cell biology" was recognized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science with its Golden Goose Award for his work on "nature's oddities," ...

Every year since Carnegie's founding in 1902, the institution has published a selection of its discoveries in an annual Year Book. Over time, this annual report evolved from a complete record of ...

From distinguished researchers to our essential support staff, our community is united by a shared drive for discovery. We are dedicated to nurturing a wide range of talents at every career stage, ...

Sugars serve as the principal energy source, basic building material and important signal molecules in both animals and plants. Their distribution throughout the organism is controlled by sugar ...

Using observations obtained with the Wide-Field Camera 3 on board the Hubble Space Telescope, we have studied the properties of the stellar populations in the central regions of 30 Dor in the Large ...

The architecture of the branched root system of plants is a major determinant of vigor. Water availability is known to impact root physiology and growth; however, the spatial scale at which this ...

Marine oxygen-deficient zones represent a natural source of nitrous oxide (N2O), a potent greenhouse gas and ozone-depleting agent. To investigate controls on N2O production, the responses of ammonia ...

Cytoskeleton, Evolution, and CellsHybrid Lillian Fritz-Laylin (UMass Amherst)Genetics & Developmental Biology ...

Dr. Anna Bidgood, Fulbright Scholar at EPL, will deliver a seminar in Greenewalt Lecture Hall and via Zoom on Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 11:00 a.m.

Many people have heard of Pangaea, the supercontinent that included all continents on Earth and began to break up about 175 million years ago. But before Pangaea, Earth’s landmasses ripped apart and ...

Washington, DC—Our planet’s water could have originated from interactions between the hydrogen-rich atmospheres and magma oceans of the planetary embryos that comprised Earth’s formative years, ...