Washington, DC— The U.S. National Science Foundation is advancing the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), under construction at Carnegie Science’s Las Campanas Observatory, into a critical new stage of ...

Maintaining a venue for promising but risky ventures has become especially important as the mainstream research system increasingly selects for projects that extend accepted wisdom, rather than ...

The Drosophila Gateway™ Vector collection is a set of 68 Gateway-based vectors designed to express epitope-tagged proteins in Drosophila culture cells or flies. At its core is Invitrogen's Gateway™ ...

Washington, DC—An international team of experts including Carnegie Science geophysicist Alexander Goncharov has for the first time synthesized a solid chemical compound composed of only gold and ...

Shape the Future of Science Carnegie Science postdoctoral fellows drive bold, curiosity-led research across the Earth, space, and life sciences. With access to world-class facilities, strong ...

Carnegie Science is proud to be part of the prestigious group of institutions eligible to host Heising-Simons 51 Pegasi b Fellows. Program participants can work at Carnegie Science’s Earth and Planets ...

Well-understood physical and chemical processes can easily explain the alleged evidence of a secret, large-scale atmospheric spraying program, commonly referred to as “chemtrails” or “covert ...

Washington, DC—The first-ever silicate mineral recovered from the Earth’s lower mantle has been named after retired Carnegie scientist Ho-kwang “Dave” Mao, an experimental geophysicist whose work ...

Washington, DC— How did the chemical makeup of our planet’s core shape its geologic history and habitability? Life as we know it could not exist without Earth’s magnetic field and its ability to ...

Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia’s ability to ...

Washington, DC— Carnegie’s Scott Sheppard and his colleagues—Northern Arizona University’s Chad Trujillo, and the University of Hawaii’s David Tholen—are once again redefining our Solar System’s edge.

As we commemorate the extraordinary life of Vera Rubin—who forever altered how we understand the universe—on what would have been her 93rd birthday, I keep coming back to a legendary moment in her ...