This is a paid, full-time position with a stipend of $6,000. The Earth and Planetary Science Interdisciplinary Internship at Carnegie Science (EPIIC) is a full-time, in-person, paid 10-week research ...

Recent paleomagnetic studies of lunar rocks have suggested that the Moon’s magnetic field reached peak intensities on the order of ≈77 µT between 3.85 and 3.56 Ga and subsequently declined to surface ...

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Nina Fedoroff is the first to clone and characterize maize transposons, or "jumping genes." With this pioneering work, Fedoroff advanced with molecular methods the genetic discoveries that Carnegie ...

Rebecca Oppenheimer, curator at the American Museum of Natural History's Department of Astrophysics, will give a talk titled "First and Second Generation High Contrast Imaging Experiments for ...

The Diversity of Massive Stellar Deaths and Relativistic Jets: Unraveling a Cosmic Tandem ...

The survival of species depends on their ability to adapt to new environments. Adaptive innovations require genetic material mainly provided by gene duplications, which can lead to new or alternative ...

Diana Roman, a staff scientist at DTM, will lead a workshop on how to negotiate a job offer* at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, February 7, 2017, in the ACC as part of DTM's Postdoctoral Development Workshop ...

As extreme weather, rising seas, and severe droughts bring home the reality of global climate change, we are increasingly aware of the world's pressing need for carbon-free energy sources and reliable ...

On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...

Plants are constantly exposed to mechanical forces: roots must penetrate soil and navigate around rocks to take up water and nutrients. Aboveground organs are exposed to wind, which can damage and ...

The activities of many, if not all, enzymes depend on the formation of complexes and the modulation by protein-protein interactions. Most binding mechanisms and the required conditions of interaction ...