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Mirror lab staff review the glass placed in the Giant Magellan Telescope mirror mold, checking for space. Credit: Damien Jemison/Giant Magellan Telescope – GMTO Corporation.

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Artist's conception of a research project to identify the chemical components of cinnamon oil that show effectiveness against cardiovascular disease-causing fats

July 14, 2021

Could cinnamon oil fight heart disease?

July 14, 2021

Awards

Two new major grants for microbiome research

July 14, 2021

Carnegie and Stanford plant scientists awarded $900K for biofuel research

Will Ludington inspects a vial of flies in his lab

July 14, 2021

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Spotlight: The Ludington Lab

Carnegie’s Earth and Planets Laboratory staff scientists' expertise spans from terrestrial planet interiors to the atmospheres of distant worlds

July 07, 2021

Two new faculty members join Carnegie’s Earth and Planets Laboratory

A 3D reconstruction of an Arabidopsis embryo. Different colors are used to annotate different cells. Image is courtesy of George W. Bassel

July 06, 2021

How seeds know it’s a good time to germinate

July 01, 2021

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Postdoc Spotlight: Asmaa Boujibar explores planetary cores to distant stars

Jianhua Wang With NanoSIMS

July 01, 2021

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Behind the Scenes: In the SIMS Lab with Jianhua Wang

Larry Nittler and Jens Barosch pose for a photo as they scan a sample of the Ryugu asteroid

June 30, 2021

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Asteroid Day talk draws 300 attendees as scientists anticipate arrival of Ryugu samples

A slice of a chondrite meteorite

June 30, 2021

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Five key questions in cosmochemistry and geochemistry

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The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M-31. Credit: NASA/MSFC/Meteoroid Environment Office/Bill Cook

June 13, 2022

Tracing The Remnants Of Andromeda’s Violent History

Artist’s representation of our Milky Way Galaxy surrounded by dozens of stellar streams. These streams were the companion satellite galaxies or globular clusters that are now being torn apart by our Galaxy’s gravity. (Credit: James Josephides and S5 Collaboration.)

January 11, 2022

Milky Way’s Feeding Habits Shine A Light On Dark Matter

The twin FPS units (prior to robot installation). One of these goes to Carnegie's Las Campanas Observatory in the Southern Hemisphere and the other goes to Apache Point Observatory in the Northern hemisphere. Credit: The SDSS collaboration.

January 11, 2022

Sloan Digital Sky Survey's Robots Turn Their Eyes To The Sky

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