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Artist's conception of neutron stars colliding, by Robin Dienel, courtesy of Carnegie Institution for Science

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A triptych of Xenia, a planet, and quartz

October 03, 2024

Organizational News

Carnegie Science Announces Leadership Transition as President Eric Isaacs Steps Down

Lynne Hugendubler feeding fish

September 30, 2024

Awards

Service to Science Award Winner Lynne Hugendubler: Supporting Life in the Zheng Lab

Carnegie Science President Eric Isaacs presents the Service to Science Award to Timothy Mock at the May 2024 Board of Trustees Dinner. — Carnegie Science President Eric Isaacs presented Timothy Mock with the Service to Science Award at the May 2024 Board of Trustees Dinner.

September 30, 2024

Awards

2024 Service to Science Award Honors Timothy D. Mock’s 26 Years of Dedication

RNA

September 27, 2024

Organizational News

Therapeutic nanotech pioneer Robert Langer reflects on the field's past, present, and future

This pile of lava flows is part of the Grande Ronde Basalt, the most voluminous formation of the Columbia River Basalt Group (Photo credit: Jennifer Kasbohm). — This pile of lava flows is part of the Grande Ronde Basalt, the most voluminous formation of the Columbia River Basalt Group. (Photo credit: Jennifer Kasbohm).

September 20, 2024

Feature Story

Probing the role of volcanism in ancient climate warming

Maggie Thompson

September 17, 2024

Awards

Carnegie Science’s Maggie Thompson recognized for “unusually important” Ph.D. thesis research

Joe Gall

September 13, 2024

Organizational News

Joseph Gall, father of modern cell biology, dead at 96

Phillip Cleves at work in Carnegie’s coral research facility in Baltimore. Carnegie researchers have been leading efforts to apply biomedical techniques to pressing environmental issues, including coral bleaching and ocean acidification. Photo by Navid Marvi courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science.

September 10, 2024

Awards

Carnegie Science's Phillip Cleves key collaborator on newly launched Allen Discovery Center on Neurobiology in Changing Environments

The planet Mercury on a black background. This colorful view of Mercury was produced by using images from the color base map imaging campaign during MESSENGER's primary mission. NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Science

August 30, 2024

Q&A

Q&A: 20 years since the MESSENGER mission

A red giant star and white dwarf orbit each other in this artist's concept of a nova similar to T Coronae Borealis. Artwork is courtesy of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.

August 30, 2024

Q&A

Q&A: Astronomers await a "once-every-80-years" stellar explosion