Using both fine-scale microdissection and mathematical modeling approaches, Carnegie plant scientists found that the tip of the root where cell expansion drives growth is uniquely able to perceive and ...

A leadership change represents the dawn of a new era for Carnegie Science. Eric D. Isaacs steps down at the conclusion of a transformative six-year period for the institution. Science Deputy and ...

For more than a century, Carnegie Science has empowered visionary investigators to demonstrate intellectual courage, challenge conventional ideas, and transform the world. Our organization was ...

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 ...

How did life arise on Earth? Where did its building blocks first develop—in the superheated saltwater near deep-sea vents, or within the vast ice sheets covering primordial oceans? Or did life on ...

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 ...