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January 23, 2014

Are developing heart valves sensitive to environmental chemicals?

January 23, 2014

What makes cell division accurate?

Fieldwork at sea on the Atlantis research vessel. In January 2014 Carnegie's Dionysis Foustoukos, along with microbiologist and Carnegie postdoctoral fellow Ileana Peréz-Rodríguez and under-graduate student Matt Rawls of George Mason University, collected microorganisms from the volcanoes of the Pacific Ocean and cultured them onboard the oceanographic research vessel Atlantis.

January 02, 2014

Spotlight

The Geophysical Laboratory at the High Seas

December 12, 2013

Fatty Acids Crucial to Embryonic Development

December 09, 2013

The Smoking Gun: Fish Brains and Nicotine

Vera Rubin at Lowell Observatory with Kent Ford in white helmet.

November 26, 2013

Feature Story

Kent Ford & Vera Rubin's Image Tube Spectrograph named in Smithsonian's "101 Objects that Made America"

This image shows the galaxy NGC5806 and the location of the Type Ib supernova iPTF13bvn. Image credit: Yi Cao et al.

October 03, 2013

New Survey Tools Unveil Two Celestial Explosions

Artist's conception of a planetary smashup whose debris was spotted by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in 2009

October 01, 2013

Feature Story

How old is the moon? About 100 Million Years Younger Than We Once Thought

August 27, 2013

Why are some cells more cancer prone?

July 12, 2013

Stem cell clues uncovered