Washington, DC—As the world warms and precipitation patterns shift, strategic approaches to sustainably improving crop yields will be necessary. Carnegie Science’s Lorenzo Rosa is working to ...

In a recent essay in Trends in Plant Science, Carnegie’s William Dwyer and Sue Rhee argue for the importance of anti-colonial language, as Western scientists develop an interest in regional crops that ...

A team of scientists performed the first-ever experiment that manipulated seawater chemistry in a natural coral reef community in order to determine the effect that excess carbon dioxide released by ...

New work hones in on one particular region of the zebrafish brain that could help us understand the circuitry underlying nicotine addiction. Baltimore, MD—In researching neural pathways, it helps to ...

For more than a century, Carnegie Science has empowered visionary investigators to demonstrate intellectual courage, challenge conventional ideas, and transform the world. Our organization was ...

Caudill, Victoria R.; Qin, Sarina; Winstead, Ryan; Kaur, Jasmeen; Tisthammer, Kaho; Pineda, E. Geo; Solis, Caroline; Cobey, Sarah; Bedford, Trevor; Carja, Oana; Eggo ...

Join us for a journey to the closest planet to our Sun! Despite major discoveries made by NASA space mission MESSENGER, many questions remain unanswered about the interior and history of Mercury.

Previous studies show that city metrics having to do with growth, productivity and overall energy consumption scale superlinearly, attributing this to the social nature of cities. Superlinear scaling ...

5241 Broad Branch Road, N.W. The Earth & Planets Laboratory (EPL) is located on the Carnegie Institution for Science's Broad Branch Road Campus (BBR). BBR is also home to the Carnegie headquarters and ...

Throughout history, new observations of the night sky have led to groundbreaking discoveries, often resulting in paradigm shifts in astronomy. Over the past few decades, astronomy has been going ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is the Sun. The second most important star is nestled inside in the Andromeda galaxy. Don’t go looking for it. The flickering star is 2.2 million ...

Washington, DC—Carnegie’s Scott Sheppard and his colleagues—Northern Arizona University’s Chad Trujillo, and the University of Hawaii’s David Tholen—are once again redefining our Solar System’s edge.