Our sense of touch is the earliest to develop, last to fade, and least understood of the five basic senses. The gentlest breeze and the roughest sandpaper are detected by mechanoreceptor neurons ...

Mong-Han Huang, of the University of Maryland's Department of Geology, will present his lecture at 11 a.m. on November 29, 2018, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series.

Get to know Biosphere Sciences and Engineering postdoc Karina Gutierrez Garcia, who recently published a paper in Science identifying genes that enable beneficial bacterial species to colonize ...

Baltimore, MD—A team of researchers led by Carnegie Science’s Will Ludington, Karina Gutiérrez-García, and Kevin Aumiller identified genes that enable a beneficial bacterial species to colonize ...

Dr. Luciana V. Gatti is a senior researcher in climate change for the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Laboratory coordinator at CCST / INPE’s General ...

Dr. Kiyoto Yabe of Kavli IPMU will discuss the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) on the Subaru Telescope.

Angélica L. González is an associate professor and the biology graduate program director at Rutgers University's Department of Biology & Center for Computational and Integrative Biology. González will ...

I will present the latest results and developments from the THESAN Project, a strategic initiative advancing our understanding of high-redshift galaxy formation and the Epoch of Reionization. THESAN ...

(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 ...

Reba Bandyopadhyay, a AAAS science and technology policy fellow at the National Science Foundation, will lead a workshop titled "From Astronomy to Policy - A Not Entirely Unexpected Journey" at 11 a.m ...

Thomas Sharkey is a distinguished university professor for the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory at Michigan State University. Isoprene emission from ...

A new exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art explores the relationship to the cosmos of more than a dozen civilizations. The program, called "Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across ...