Star Trek's Genesis device melts a world down and rebuilds it. Thompson does something similar on a tiny scale, using a laser ...

In "The Devil in the Dark," the silicon-based Horta go undetected by scans built for carbon-based life. Wong expects real ...

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 ...

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 ...

He studies how water and other gases, such as hydrogen and helium, form and behave on the Moon, using lunar dust collected ...

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, ...

Carnegie Science's mission is to advance investigation, research, and discovery, and to apply that knowledge for the improvement of humankind. We empower world-class investigators to pursue the ...

For centuries, scientists have used gravity to study the shape of our planet. But it wasn’t until recently that instrumentation caught up with them to precisely measure aspects of Earth, such as the ...

As each year draws to a close, we show our Carnegie pride with a holiday card featuring original artwork from a member of our staff that represents our mission and our deep curiosity about the natural ...

Pasadena, CA—Astronomer Guillermo Blanc has been named the Director of Carnegie Science’s Las Campanas Observatory (LCO) in Chile’s high Atacama Desert, home of the world-class twin Magellan ...

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 ...