Carnegie Institution Observatories researchers are featured in Astronomy Magazine discussing dark matter and what supernovae may tell us about the fate of the universe.
Contact Ho-kwang (Dave) Mao at 202-478- 8960, or h.mao@gl.ciw.edu
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Former Embryology scientist Nina Fedoroff has won the National Medal of Science and has been named science advisor to Condoleezza Rice.
Carnegie Contact: Dr. Mark Phillips
011-56-51-207301 or (mmp@lco.cl)
La Serena, Chile – Carnegie astronomer Mark Phillips will share the 2007 Cosmology Prize of the Peter and Patricia Gruber...
The skies over Hawaii buzz with the propellers of small aircraft. Most of them ferry people among the islands, or give tourists a glimpse of inaccessible locales. But there is one among the swarm...
Kenneth L. Franklin, who from 1954 to 1956 was a research fellow in radio astronomy at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, has died at 84 following heart surgery.
Carnegie Contact: Dr. Isamu Matsuyama(202) 478-8863 or (matsuyama@dtm.ciw.edu)
For a copy of the paper, please contact Helen Jamison at Nature: h.jamison@nature.com
Washington, DC – Scientists have...
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Washington, D.C. – President of the Carnegie Institution, Richard A....
Dr. Greg Asner of Carnegie's Department of Global Ecology discusses laser-generated topographic images in on-demand video.
Contact Chris Field at cfield@globalecology.stanford.edu, (650) 462 1047 x 201
http://www.global-ecology.org/
For a copy of the paper “Global and regional drivers of accelerating CO2 emissions,...
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or Ho-kwang (Dave) Mao at (202) 478-8960, or h.mao@gl.ciw.edu
For more information about the workshop see http://cdac.gl.ciw.edu/...
Carnegie Contact: Dr. Seth Newsome;
(202) 478-8987 or snewsome@ciw.edu
For a copy of the paper, contact PNAS at PNASNews@nas.edu
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Carnegie Contact: Dr. Christopher Field (650) 462-1047 x201 or cfield@globalecology.stanford.edu
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For more information about Wendy Freedman see http://www.ociw.edu/research/wfreedman/
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According to ISI's Web of Science, two of Joe Berry's papers passed extremely high, rarefied citation milestones last week.
The following 1980 paper just passed its 1,500th citation:
Farquhar...
Stanford, CA – Tropical plants are able to adapt to environmental change by extracting nitrogen from a variety of sources, according to a new study that appears in the May 7 early online edition of...
MESSENGER Mission News (MESSENGER website)
MESSENGER Team Member Stan Peale was among the researchers to recently announce the discovery of strong evidence that the planet Mercury has a molten core...
Washington, DC – Paul Silver, a geophysicist at Carnegie’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism in Washington, DC, was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on Friday, April...
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Dr. Ken Caldeira, Staff Member, Department of Global Ecology
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Stanford, CA.The American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced this week that Carnegie’s Global Ecology department building is among the top 10 buildings in the country that are “examples of...
Stanford, Calif. – Planting and protecting trees—which trap and absorb carbon dioxide as they grow—can help to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But a new study suggests that, as a way to...
The Lab-On-a-Chip, developed at Carnegie in collaboration with NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and Charles River Labs, has been successfully tested on the space shuttle Discovery.
Global Ecology director Chris Field discusses his latest work, which demonstrates that global warming has already significantly affected agriculture, in a video produced by the Stanford News Service...
Stanford, Calif. – Over a span of two decades, warming temperatures have caused annual losses of roughly $5 billion for major food crops, according to a new study by researchers at the Carnegie...
Contact Ken Caldeira at 650-704-7212, or kcaldeira@globalecology.stanford.edu
Stanford, CA – Much of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuel burning is absorbed by the oceans. It is...