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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Barbara Cohen, Planetary Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, will present her lecture at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar ...

Alan Rooney, of Yale's Department of Geology & Geophysics, will present his lecture at 11 a.m. EDT on Feb. 15, 2018, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series. Coffee, tea, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alisha Clark, Postdoctoral Scholar at Northwestern University's Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, will present her lecture at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall ...

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.

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 ...