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.

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 ...

Despite their inability to move, vascular plants have colonized the vast majority of the earth’s land surface. Key to this colonization was the evolution of root systems that enable plants to forage ...

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 ...

The Carnegie Science Observatories recently welcomed Staff Scientists Jessica Spake and Peter Senchyna, along with Hale Scholar Shreyas Vissapragada. Each brings with them a wealth of expertise—Spake ...

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™ ...

Carnegie Science empowers our investigators to pursue the biggest questions of our time, advancing discoveries that transform our understanding of life, planets, and the broader universe. Our research ...

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 ...

The late Carnegie Science President Maxine Singer’s influence continues to ripple outward through the research enterprise, shaping current efforts to promote inclusivity in STEM education, improve the ...

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 ...

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, ...

(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 ...