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 ...

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 ...

Carnegie Science's Sierra Grant is part of a two-person team that has advanced our understanding of moon-forming regions around gas giant planets. Circumplanetary disks are a byproduct of the ...

Welcome to the Carnegie Science Digital Discovery Hub, your gateway to exploring science anytime, anywhere. Here you’ll find a mix of virtual exhibits, digital extensions of our on-campus displays, ...

We've collected several successful Carnegie Fellowship applications, which have been generously made available by previous postdoctoral fellows. Please note that these are only meant as examples, and ...

Washington, DC— “Earth historian” Steven B. Shirey, whose research reveals the geochemical processes that have shaped our planet now and in the distant past, will receive the American Geophysical ...