“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 ...

Christelle Wauthier, an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University, will give a talk titled "Magma pathways and earthquake triggering: Insights from satellite radar observations" at 2 p.m.

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 ...

Dimitar D. Sasselov, from Harvard University, 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 ...

Lara Wagner, staff scientist at DTM, will give a talk* titled "Pointing the Telescope Down: Seismo-vision into the Earth" at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 20, 2016, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as ...

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, ...

Ioan Lascu 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.

Karen Fischer is the Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences at Brown University. Her research involves imaging the structure of the Earth's crust and mantle using ...

microRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small regulatory RNAs that have large impacts on gene expression in both plants and animals. We have been studying the mechanisms underlying the metabolism of miRNAs ...

A thorough understanding of how pathogens cause disease and how plants defend themselves is crucial for global food security. With this in mind, we have been studying the interaction of maize with the ...

The phenomenon of magnetic resonance was first revealed in the classic Stern-Gerlach experiment in 1922. Over the nearly 100 years and 10 Nobel Prizes that followed, magnetic resonance has developed ...

Pollen tubes penetrate the stigma, extend through specialized transmitting tissue, are attracted to ovules, and deliver two sperm to the female gametophyte so one can fuse with the egg to form the ...