“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 ...

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, ...

The survival of species depends on their ability to adapt to new environments. Adaptive innovations require genetic material mainly provided by gene duplications, which can lead to new or alternative ...

The Diversity of Massive Stellar Deaths and Relativistic Jets: Unraveling a Cosmic Tandem ...

Diana Roman, a staff scientist at DTM, will lead a workshop on how to negotiate a job offer* at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, February 7, 2017, in the ACC as part of DTM's Postdoctoral Development Workshop ...

Recent paleomagnetic studies of lunar rocks have suggested that the Moon’s magnetic field reached peak intensities on the order of ≈77 µT between 3.85 and 3.56 Ga and subsequently declined to surface ...

Rebecca Oppenheimer, curator at the American Museum of Natural History's Department of Astrophysics, will give a talk titled "First and Second Generation High Contrast Imaging Experiments for ...

As extreme weather, rising seas, and severe droughts bring home the reality of global climate change, we are increasingly aware of the world's pressing need for carbon-free energy sources and reliable ...

Susan Schwartz, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will present a lecture titled "Anatomy of a Megathrust Plate Boundary Through the Earthquake Cycle" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, ...

Lineage-specific stem cells are critical for the production and maintenance of specific cell types and tissues in multicellular organisms. In Arabidopsis, the initiation and proliferation of stomatal ...

The activities of many, if not all, enzymes depend on the formation of complexes and the modulation by protein-protein interactions. Most binding mechanisms and the required conditions of interaction ...

Michael Ackerson, a former Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow, is a Research Scientist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. He received his B.S. in Geological Sciences from Michigan ...