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Highest-ever Resolution Photos of the Night Sky 21 Aug 2013 | 09:16 pm
Pasadena, CA— A team of astronomers from three institutions has developed a new type of telescope camera that makes higher resolution images than ever before, the culmination of 20 years of effort. Th...
Deep Earth Heat Surprise 9 Aug 2013 | 04:20 pm
Washington, D.C—The key to understanding Earth’s evolution is to look at how heat is conducted in the deep lower mantle—a region some 400 to 1,800 miles (660 to 2,900 kilometers) below the surface. Re...
Future Warming: Issues of Magnitude and Pace 31 Jul 2013 | 11:59 pm
Washington, DC—Researchers reviewed the likelihood of continued changes to the terrestrial climate, including an analysis of a collection of 27 climate models. If emissions of heat-trapping gases cont...
How Does Hydrogen Metallize? 30 Jul 2013 | 12:55 am
Washington, D.C.— Hydrogen is deceptively simple. It has only a single electron per atom, but it powers the sun and forms the majority of the observed universe. As such, it is naturally exposed to the...
Solar system’s youth gives clues to planet search 24 Jul 2013 | 08:08 pm
Washington, D.C.—Comets and meteorites contain clues to our solar system's earliest days. But some of the findings are puzzle pieces that don't seem to fit well together. A new set of theoretical mode...
First High-resolution National Carbon Map—Panama 22 Jul 2013 | 05:26 pm
Watch the Carnegie Airborne Observatory make the world's highest resolution carbon map of a country (Panama) in less than one minute http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fQwv4coRR8 Washington, DC—A tea...
80% of Malaysian Borneo Degraded by Logging 17 Jul 2013 | 07:50 pm
Washington, DC—A study published in the July 17, issue of the journal PLOS ONE found that more than 80% of tropical forests in Malaysian Borneo have been heavily impacted by logging. The Malaysian...
Stem cell clues uncovered 13 Jul 2013 | 02:23 am
Baltimore, MD—Proper tissue function and regeneration is supported by stem cells, which reside in so-called niches. New work from Carnegie’s Yixian Zheng and Haiyang Chen identifies an important compo...
Breakthrough: sensors monitor cells at work 2 Jul 2013 | 09:17 pm
Stanford, CA—Transport proteins are responsible for moving materials such as nutrients and metabolic products through a cell’s outer membrane, which seals and protects all living cells, to the cell’s ...
Surprise superconductor 2 Jul 2013 | 01:22 am
Washington, D.C.—Superconductivity is a rare physical state in which matter is able to conduct electricity—maintain a flow of electrons—without any resistance. This phenomenon can only be found in cer...
