Carnegie Institution for Science3d
Was it Safe to Go Outside 3.9 Billion Years Ago?
Mark Harrison from UCLA will present his lecture at 11 a.m. EDT on May 17, 2018, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be ...
Carnegie Institution for Science4d
Are There Planets Like Earth Around Other Stars? Part Deux
On Thursday, December 5, 2024, at 6:30 p.m., Dr. Alan Boss will deliver a Neighborhood Lecture Series talk on "Are There Planets Like Earth Around Other Stars? Part Deux" in the Greenewalt Lecture ...
Carnegie Institution for Science4d
High-pressure order-disorder transition in Mg2SiO4: Implications for super-Earth mineralogy
(Mg, Fe)SiO3 post-perovskite is the highest-pressure silicate mineral phase in the Earth's interior. The extreme pressure and temperature conditions inside large extrasolar planets will likely lead to ...
Carnegie Institution for Science4d
Biosphere Sciences & Engineering
Carnegie's newest scientific division, Biosphere Sciences & Engineering, is devoted to disrupting the traditional, siloed perspective on research in the life sciences and pursuing an integrated ...
Carnegie Institution for Science4d
Origin of Short-Lived Radioactive Nuclei in the early Solar System
This talk will be given by Maria Lugaro, Konkoly Observatory, an astrophysicist who tries to understand how nuclear reactions inside stars produce the chemical elements that make up our bodies, the ...
Carnegie Institution for Science7d
"A Re-appraisal of Crustal Structure in North America using Probabilistic Seismic Imaging"
Tolulope Olugboji, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Maryland, College Park, will give a talk titled "A Re-appraisal of Crustal Structure in North America using Probabilistic ...
Carnegie Institution for Science9d
Hiding in Plain Sight: How Butterflies Use Physics to Be Invisible
Marine Biological Laboratory Director Nipam Patel, a pioneer in the evo-devo research field, will reveal the fascinating science underlying butterfly wing patterns. From naturalists to collectors, ...
Carnegie Institution for Science9d
Siobhan Braybrook, Sainsbury Lab, Growing in a wave – physical mechanisms of hypocotyl growth
Our group studies how cell wall mechanics, in plants and algae, regulates growth and development; from understanding single cell shape generation to examining cell adhesion and coordination to ...
Carnegie Institution for Science9d
Carnegie Science appoints John Mulchaey as its 12th President
Washington, D.C.—The Carnegie Science Board of Trustees today announced that Dr. John Mulchaey, a distinguished scientist and dedicated leader with more than three decades of service to the ...
Carnegie Institution for Science9d
Earth & Planets Laboratory
Drawing on more than a century of science, our multidisciplinary department discovers exoplanets, creates new materials, illuminates Earth's inner workings, and seeks to better understand the universe ...
Carnegie Institution for Science10d
Asteroid (101955) Bennu in the laboratory: Properties of the sample collected by OSIRIS-REx
Lauretta, Dante S.; Connolly, Harold C.; Aebersold, Joseph E.; Alexander, Conel M. O'D.; Ballouz, Ronald-L.; Barnes, Jessica J.; Bates, Helena C.; Bennett, Carina A ...
Carnegie Institution for Science16d
Hong Qiao, The University of Texas at Austin, The interplay between Chromatin regulation and ethylene signaling
We have revealed that in the presence of ethylene, EIN2 C-terminus is involved in the regulation of the elevation of acetylation at H3K14 and H3K23.EIN2, the key factor of ethylene signaling, ...