The Giant Magellan Telescope stands to provide insights into some of humanity's biggest questions and ring in a renaissance of ground-based astronomy. Learn more about this innovative instrumentation.

Large telescopes are custom-built and rare. There is no standard practice or model. Every time a large telescope is built, its designers must re-think the challenges, check every application, and ...

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™ ...

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 ...

Carnegie's newest scientific division, Biosphere Sciences & Engineering, is devoted to disrupting the traditional, siloed perspective on research in the life sciences and pursuing an integrated ...

The first image of H335H shows the glass side of the photographic plate, on which Hubble marked novae and, eventually, the first Cepheid in ink. The next two images show the emulsion side of the plate ...

With centralized production, the price of ammonia-based fertilizers is affected by the volatility of the fossil fuel market, complex supply chains and long-distance transportation costs. Now, an ...

Mercury has a compositionally diverse surface that was produced by different periods of igneous activity suggesting heterogeneous mantle sources. Understanding the structure of Mercury's mantle formed ...

Plant science will be crucial for solving many of society’s most-pressing demands and Carnegie researchers are stepping up to the challenge. Plants can convert the Sun’s energy into chemical ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are amongst the most energetic explosions in space, and are typically divided into two categories based on their duration. Short GRBs (< 2 s) originate from neutron star (NS) ...