Carnegie’s stewardship of Wood’s original gift to advance seismological research has allowed the fund to grow to a size where ...

The setting was familiar, but the purpose was new. In September, Le Voyer returned to Carnegie Science as EPL's first ...

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 ...

Carnegie Science researchers are given the time, the resources, and the community to ask big questions and forge new paths of discovery. Our record of innovation is founded on our unique structure, ...

Drawing on more than a century of science, our multidisciplinary department discovers exoplanets, creates new materials, illuminates Earth's inner workings, and seeks to better understand the universe ...

Approximately one-quarter of the anthropogenic carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere each year is absorbed by the global oceans, causing measurable declines in surface ocean pH, carbonate ion ...

Pasadena, CA—Biophysicist and microbiologist Mohamed “Moh” El-Naggar—who investigates how microbes exchange energy and electrons with their environments—will lead Carnegie Science’s Biosphere Sciences ...

Beneath the original 1912 office building of the Carnegie Observatories on Santa Barbara Street in Pasadena sits a diffraction grating laboratory, frozen in time. A selection of diffraction gratings ...

Pasadena, CA—A team of scientists led by Harvard University’s Collin Cherubim and including Shreyas Vissapragada and other Carnegie astronomers has detected evidence of an atmosphere on a rocky planet ...

We joined Carnegie plant biologist Devaki Bhaya for a personalized "wander-and-wonder" tour of the trees of Stanford University's campus and what they can teach us about paying attention to our ...

Through school visits, public events, an inflatable planetarium, hands-on demonstrations, and Carnegie Observatories’ annual Open House, Outreach Coordinator Jeff Rich is connecting people—especially ...

On July 5, 1945, a report landed on President Harry Truman's desk conveying an outsized ambition: to chart the course of American science for the next half-century. Titled Science: The Endless ...