“Gentlemen, your work now begins, your aims are high, you seek to expand known forces, to discover and utilize unknown forces for the benefit of man. Than this there can scarcely be a greater work. I ...

microRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small regulatory RNAs that have large impacts on gene expression in both plants and animals. We have been studying the mechanisms underlying the metabolism of miRNAs ...

On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...

Ioan Lascu will present his lecture in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road Campus. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be served before the lecture, at 10:30 a.m.

Agricultural productivity is dictated by water availability and consequently drought is the major source of crop losses worldwide. The phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) is elevated in response to water ...

A thorough understanding of how pathogens cause disease and how plants defend themselves is crucial for global food security. With this in mind, we have been studying the interaction of maize with the ...

Karen Fischer is the Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences at Brown University. Her research involves imaging the structure of the Earth's crust and mantle using ...

The phenomenon of magnetic resonance was first revealed in the classic Stern-Gerlach experiment in 1922. Over the nearly 100 years and 10 Nobel Prizes that followed, magnetic resonance has developed ...

Pollen tubes penetrate the stigma, extend through specialized transmitting tissue, are attracted to ovules, and deliver two sperm to the female gametophyte so one can fuse with the egg to form the ...

Yves Moussallam, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Diego, will give a talk titled "Transferring Volatiles from Asthenosphere to Atmosphere" at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, October 5 ...

Kei Shimizu, a DCO postdoctoral associate at DTM, will give a talk titled “The Generation of Pacific MORB and the Role of Oceanic Mantle Lithosphere” at 11 a.m. on Thursday, January 26, 2017, in the ...

The survival of species depends on their ability to adapt to new environments. Adaptive innovations require genetic material mainly provided by gene duplications, which can lead to new or alternative ...