Our sense of touch is the earliest to develop, last to fade, and least understood of the five basic senses. The gentlest breeze and the roughest sandpaper are detected by mechanoreceptor neurons ...

I graduated with a PhD in molecular and cellular biology from Washington University and then moved onto a postdoctoral position at Stanford, working on protein aggregation in the context of ...

Former DTM Harry Oscar Wood Fellow Nicholas Schmerr (2008-2010), now an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geology, University of Maryland, received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University. His ...

Our Broad Branch Road Spring 2017 Neighborhood Lecture Series kicks off with Carnegie Science President, Dr. Matthew P. Scott. Scott will present, "Jumping Genes: What They Mean for Evolution and ...

Lipids play a crucial and tightly regulated cellular role as the major component of membranes. They are also critical for both cellular and physiological energy homeostasis. Pools of both membrane ...

Sergei Sukharev is a professor at the University of Maryland ...

Desmond E. Moser, from Western University, will present his lecture in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road Campus. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be served before the ...

During the past dozen years my team has utilized spectroscopic studies of white dwarf photospheres 'polluted' by planetary system material to provide bulk chemical compositions in unprecedented detail ...

Dennis Kent will present his lecture in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road Campus. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be served before the lecture, at 10:30 a.m.

Patricia Gregg, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, will present a lecture titled "Thermomechanical insights into triggering the 2005 eruption of Sierra Negra volcano, Galápagos" at ...

Picture shows synchrotron X-ray fluorescence microtomography of a dry, intact Arabidopsis Columbia-0 seed collected at beamline 13-ID-E of the Advanced Photon Source. Red shows calcium, blue shows ...

Amaya Moro-Martint will present her lecture in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road Campus. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be served before the lecture, at 10:30 a.m.