How did we get here and are we alone? Working at the nexus of biology, Earth science, and astronomy, Carnegie Science investigators boldly traverse disciplinary boundaries to reveal the relationships ...

The Earth & Planets Laboratory (EPL) is located on the Broad Branch Road campus (BBR) in Northwest Washington, DC. Built in 1914, the campus houses both state-of-the-art research facilities and ...

Carnegie scientists are pioneers, shaping new frontiers of exploration with bold curiosity and innovative research. From unraveling the complexities of genomes to uncovering the secrets of the cosmos, ...

Carnegie Science was built to give scientists the freedom to pursue bold ideas and open inquiry. That founding principle endures today through responsible financial stewardship, which safeguards ...

TIMES (Time-Integrated Matrix for Earth Sciences) is an ambitious decadal effort with the purpose of recalibrating global climate records from the last 100 million years on a unified, accurate, and ...

In this talk I will present the HATPI instrument, a new facility at Las Campanas Observatory that uses 64 wide-angle, 9.6 cm diameter lenses and large-format back-illuminated CCDs, to observe the full ...

Carnegie's Luke Bouma presented exciting new research at the American Astronomical Society meeting revealing how large clumps of cool plasma that are trapped in an M dwarf star's magnetosphere can be ...

The Drosophila Gateway™ Vector collection is a set of 68 Gateway-based vectors designed to express epitope-tagged proteins in Drosophila culture cells or flies. At its core is Invitrogen's Gateway™ ...

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 ...

O'Grady, Anna J. G.; Drout, Maria R.; Shappee, B. J.; Bauer, Evan B.; Fuller, Jim; Kochanek, C. S.; Jayasinghe, T.; Gaensler, B. M.; Stanek, K. Z.; Holoien, Thomas W ...

Purple sulfur bacteria (PSB) are important photoautotrophs inhabiting chemoclines in euxinic and meromictic lakes. These organisms are the only producers of the carotenoid, okenone, a compound that ...

The Hercules ultrafaint dwarf galaxy (UFD) has long been hypothesized to be tidally disrupting, yet no conclusive evidence has been found for tidal disruption owing partly to difficulties in ...