For humans, the most important star in the universe is the Sun. The second most important star is nestled inside in the Andromeda galaxy. Don’t go looking for it. The flickering star is 2.2 million ...

Friedemann Samrock, of ETH Zürich, will present his lecture at 2 p.m. EDT on Dec. 7, 2017, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series.

Christelle Wauthier, an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University, will give a talk titled "Magma pathways and earthquake triggering: Insights from satellite radar observations" at 2 p.m.

Loÿc VanderKluysen, an assistant professor in the Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science at Drexel University, will give a talk titled "It’s a Trap! Origin, emplacement and impact ...

In this talk, I will present new approaches developed in my lab to observe, image, characterize and model the growth of root systems. We have developed a new type of substrate, named “transparent soil ...

A new-found interest in the field of protein science has focused on the capacity of certain proteins to polymerize into labile, cross- fibrils. Formation of labile polymers has been observed for ...

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 ...

Although many studies provide examples of evolutionary processes such as balancing selection or deleterious polymorphism, the relative importance of these processes for phenotypic variation is unclear ...

Salvatore Calabrese is an assistant professor of Biological & Agricultural Engineering of Plant Sciences at Texas A&M University. The Rosa Lab hosts his seminar As global warming and shifting rainfall ...

Kevin Schlaufman 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.

Magnetic fields are thought to govern the lifetime of protoplanetary disks by mediating the inward accretion of gas. At finer scales, magnetic instabilities may have led to turbulent eddies where the ...

Dimitar D. Sasselov, from Harvard 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 ...