In 1903, Carnegie Science established the Desert Botanical Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona—a boundary-pushing interdisciplinary facility that was the precursor to the Department of Plant Biology, now ...

When an unsuspecting star wanders too close to a supermassive black hole, the star can be ripped apart by the black hole's immense gravity. As the black hole messily feeds on the star, it produces an ...

Michael Kühl, professor of Marine Biological Section, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Berry Lab hosts his seminar. The coral holobiont is a multispecies assemblage (host, symbionts, and microbiomes ...

Carnegie Science empowers our investigators to pursue the biggest questions of our time, advancing discoveries that transform our understanding of life, planets, and the broader universe. Our research ...

Anthropogenic habitat loss and climate change are reducing species' geographic ranges, increasing extinction risk and losses of species' genetic diversity. Although preserving genetic diversity is key ...

Alycia Weinberger wants to understand how planets form, so she observes young stars and their disks, the birthplaces of planets, as well as finding and studying planetary systems.

Miki Nakajima, a postdoctoral fellow at DTM, will present a talk titled “Implications of Giant Impacts on the Origin of Martian Moons and Planetary Magnetic Fields” at 11 a.m. on Thursday, June 15, ...

You can create a legacy that will shape scientific research far into the future. A planned gift to Carnegie Science is an investment in the next generation of curious minds and big ideas. You can help ...

The Earth is special to us – it’s our home. But is it really special as a planet? Every star we can see in the night sky is likely to be orbited by planets. There are probably a thousand billion ...