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An overriding interest in photosynthesis has propelled my wanderings from chemist to biochemist to plant physiologist and on to global topics. Equations and models have been organizing principles ...

Galbany, L.; Ashall, C.; Hoflich, P.; Gonzalez-Gaitan, S.; Taubenberger, S.; Stritzinger, M.; Hsiao, E. Y.; Mazzali, P.; Baron, E.; Blondin, S.; Bose, S.; Bulla, M ...

We present an overview of a new integral field spectroscopic survey called MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory), one of three core programs in the fourth-generation Sloan ...

Washington, DC—As the world warms and precipitation patterns shift, strategic approaches to sustainably improving crop yields will be necessary. Carnegie Science’s Lorenzo Rosa is working to ...

Washington, DC—Talk about a noisy neighbor! Recent research about Proxima Centauri, our Sun’s star next door offered new details about the twisting tension in its magnetic fields that results in daily ...

What if Mars once hosted life? That’s the big question Anushree Srivastava is helping to answer. As an astrobiologist, she studies some of the most extreme environments on Earth—like Arctic impact ...

In 1983, at the age of 81, Barbara McClintock received the news that would cement her place in scientific history. She had won a solo Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of ...