In recent decades, life and physical scientists have built and harnessed new tools and concepts that allow us to robustly address seminal scientific questions about the origins of life on Earth, ...

From crust to core, experimental petrologists, we decipher the geological history of Earth and other planetary bodies and the processes that lead to surfaces capable of supporting life. Armed with the ...

There are at least 53 minerals named after Carnegie scientists—some found deep inside the Earth's interior, others exist only at a single location on the whole planet, others hail from elsewhere in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...