The Earth & Planets Laboratory (EPL) is committed to providing our postdocs with resources, mentoring, and support toward their future employment goals. Workshop topics have included preparing budgets ...

Once completed and installed on the Swope telescope at Carnegie Science's Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, Henrietta will expand our understanding of planets beyond our Solar System by detecting ...

Over billions of years, microorganisms have developed a tremendous repertoire of metabolic capabilities enabling them to occupy niches composed of complex geochemical, small molecule, and microbial ...

How to achieve net zero emissions goals. Over the past few years, a wave of actors–governments at all levels, electric utilities, companies, and educational institutions–have set targets to reach net ...

Microbes are a critical component of the diversity and function of ecosystems. Among microbes, fungi are key regulators of decomposition rates, facilitate plant nutrient uptake and have a profound ...

A calcium sensor/protein kinase network for decoding calcium signals in plants.

Drew Coleman, professor at the University of North Carolina, will present a lecture titled "Missed Connection: Ignimbrite seeking plutonic relationship" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, February 9, 2017, in ...

Spaces are limited, so we are not advertising our Zoom links publically, but you're welcome to join! Just email Alycia Alexander (adalexander@carnegiescience.edu) for information.

Megan Bedell, from the Flatiron Institute, will present her lecture in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road Campus. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be served before the ...

Plant life depends on cell-to-cell connectivity through the membrane-lined channels called plasmodesmata (PD). These nano-scaled structures play pivotal roles in the orchestration of growth and ...

Ever dream of surfing Saturn's rings? Catching a romantic hot air balloon through its atmosphere? Scuba diving on Enceladus? Well, Phil Plait—widely known as "The Bad Astronomer"—does too! In a recent ...

The phloem performs essential systemic functions in tracheophytes, yet little is known about its molecular genetic specification. In the Arabidopsis primary root meristem, the protophloem is the ...