 December
26, 2005
Carnegie Institution trustee emeritus
John Diebold dies at age 79
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 December
22, 2005
2005 Science breakthrough:
Revising Earth’s early history
Researchers at the Carnegie’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM)
found that Earth’s mantle separated into chemically distinct layers faster
and earlier than previously believed. Science magazine recognized the
work in its December 23 issue, as one of the science breakthroughs for 2005....(more)
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 December 15, 2005
Astronomers
link old stars and mysterious cosmic explosions
Short gamma-ray bursts, among the most powerful explosions
in the universe, have been linked by Carnegie Observatories fellow
Edo Berger to old neutron stars in a dead galaxy...(more)
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 December
7, 2005
Similar
stem cells in insect and human gut
New findings
show that, despite outward appearances, the six-legged fruitfly
is humanity's tiny, distant cousin....(more)
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 December
5, 2005
Study:
Temperate forests could worsen global warming
Because trees absorb carbon dioxide and release cool water,
they might sound like a good idea to combat global warming,
but planting forests at certain latitudes could actually make
the Earth warmer....(more)
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 November
29, 2005
Innovative
$ 31 million Baltimore laboratory named for Maxine F. Singer
Carnegie Institution trustees will dedicate a $31.2-million
research laboratory named in honor of the Institution's
President Emerita and National Medal of Science winner....(more)
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 November
17, 2005
Genetic
defenders protect crops from fungal disease
Shauna Somerville and Mónica Stein, of the Carnegie
Institution’s Department of Plant Biology, are the first
to document how defense genes team up in plants like waves
of soldiers guarding a castle gate....(more)
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 November
4, 2005
The
Climate-Energy Challenge (PDF 4MB)
Carnegie Institution scientists outline the crucial choices
confronted by society as human activity contributes to global
climate change....(more)
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 October
28, 2005
Norwegian
Embassy and Carnegie Institution host series of conferences
Climate change and global infectious diseases to be discussed by top U.S. and
European experts in Washington, D.C....(more)
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 October
20, 2005
New
satellite study doubles forest disturbance estimates
in Brazil—impacts widespread
Results from a new large-scale, high-resolution satellite
data analysis indicate that forest degradation in the Brazilian
Amazon has been underestimated by half....(more)
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 October
4, 2005
Andrew
Carnegie Medals Of Philanthropy Awarded
Over
400 guests from across the globe gathered in the Scottish Parliament
on Tuesday, October 4, for the presentation of the Andrew Carnegie
Medal of Philanthropy 2005....(more)
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 October 4, 2005
Frozen microbes reveal how to test for Martian Life
“We tested equipment that we are developing to look for life on Mars and discovered a rare and complex microbial community living in blue ice vents inside a frozen volcano,”...(more)
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 September
26, 2005
Planetary
Radio Astronomy Turns 50 with Fanfare!
Fifty years ago, Bernard Burke and Kenneth Franklin, of
the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Terrestrial
Magnetism (DTM), picked up “the voice of Jupiter,” at
an observatory near Seneca, MD....(more)
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 September
22, 2005
Scotland’s
First Minister to present Sir Tom Farmer with Carnegie
Medal
First
Minister Jack McConnell is to present entrepreneur and
philanthropist Sir Tom Farmer with the philanthropic equivalent
of a Nobel Prize, the Carnegie UK Trusts announced today....(more)
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 September
9, 2005
Carnegie
Institution’s Hemley and Mao Awarded International Balzan
Prize
Russell
Hemley and Ho-kwang (Dave) Mao of the Carnegie Institution’s
Geophysical Laboratory have won the Balzan Prize for 2005
in mineral physics....(more)
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August
10, 2005
Andrew
Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy 2005—medal recipients
announced
The 23 worldwide foundations established by Andrew Carnegie during his lifetime
have announced the names of the recipients of The Andrew Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy
2005....(more)
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 July
25, 2005
Extreme
galactic disk: a rare peek into galaxy pasts
Nearby galaxy, in its most active star-formation stage,
discovered to have most extended UV galaxy disk found so far,
properties typical of galaxies found farther away, when the universe
was much younger....(more)
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 July
20, 2005
Revelations
about the center of the Earth
Scientists
associated with Carnegie Institution's Geophysical
Laboratory think they may have discovered why
seismic waves travel so inconsistently in Earth’s
lower mantle, between 400 and 1,800 miles below
the surface....(more)
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 July
7, 2005
Did
Humans Cause Ecosystem Collapse in Ancient Australia?
Massive
extinctions of animals and the arrival of the first humans
in ancient Australia may be linked, according to scientists
at the Carnegie Institution, University of Colorado, Australian
National University, and Bates College....(more)
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 June
30, 2005
Ecological
alarm: Oceans turning to acid from rise in CO2
A
report co-authored by newly appointed staff member
Dr. Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution’s
Department of Global Ecology sounds the alarm about
the world’s oceans. “If CO2 from
human activities continues to rise, the oceans will
become so acidic by 2100 it could threaten marine life
in ways we can’t anticipate....” (more)
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 June
23, 2005
Lighter
filling in Earth’s core
New experiments conducted by a team led by the Carnegie Institution’s
Dr. Jung-Fu Lin suggest that the core of the Earth may contain
more light elements than previously thought....(more)
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 June
16, 2005
Extreme
melting event defines Earth’s early history
Could Earth have had an even more violent infancy than
previously imagined? New isotope data suggest that the
Earth not only had a very violent beginning but also point to
new information about our planet’s chemical evolution....(more)
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 June
13, 2005
Astronomers
announce the most Earth-like planet yet found outside the solar
system
Taking
a major step forward in the search for Earth-like planets
beyond our own solar system, a team of astronomers has
announced the discovery of the smallest extrasolar planet
yet detected....(more)
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May
30, 2005
Revolutionary
nanotechnology illuminates brain cells at work
Until
now it has been impossible to accurately measure the levels
of important chemicals in living brain cells in real time
and at the level of a single cell. Scientists at the Carnegie
Institution’s Department
of Plant Biology and Stanford University are the first
to overcome this obstacle by successfully applying genetic
nanotechnology using molecular sensors to view changes
in brain chemical levels....(more)
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 May
16 , 2005
Very large
diamonds produced very fast
Researchers
at the Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory
have learned to produce 10-carat, half-inch thick single-crystal diamonds
at rapid growth rates (100 micrometers per hour) using a
chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process.
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 May
5, 2005
New
Visions of Matter with Diamonds and Light
The President
and Trustees of the Carnegie Institution cordially invite you to view the
CARNEGIE EVENING LECTURE with Dr. Russell J. Hemley, Staff Member of the
Geophysical Laboratory....(more)
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 May
3, 2005
Rock hounds sleuth rise of Earth’s atmosphere
“CSI-like” techniques,
used on minerals, are revealing the steps that led to evolution
of the atmosphere on Earth.
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 May
3, 2005
Simple metal
turns physics on its head
When
people pack an elevator, the passengers make more efficient
use of the limited space. The same has been long observed
in matter—when atoms and molecules are squeezed together
by high pressures they form efficient and symmetrical arrangements.
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 March
28, 2005
100
Greatest Discoveries
Carnegie molecular biologist Joseph Gall discusses
the work of groundbreaking microscopists, biologists, zoologists,
and geneticists with Bill Nye, "The Science Guy," as
The Science Channel counts down the greatest science discoveries
of our time...(more)
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 March
22, 2005
First light detected from an extrasolar planet
For the
first time scientists have observed an extrasolar planet through
the light it emits in the infrared.
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 March
10, 2005
Astronomical
surprise: Massive old galaxies starve to death in the infant
universe
Astronomers
have found distant red galaxies—very massive and very
old—in the universe when it was only 2.5 billion years
post Big Bang.
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 March
7, 2005
Finding hidden invaders
in a Hawaiian rain forest
By applying
novel measurement techniques from a high-altitude aircraft,
scientists detected two species of invading plants that are
changing the ecology of rain forest near the Kilauea Volcano
in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
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 March
3, 2005
Giant
planet birth linked to that of primitive meteorites
Scientists
now believe that the formation of Jupiter, the heavy-weight
champion of the Solar System’s planets, may have spawned
some of the tiniest and oldest constituents of our Solar System—millimeter-sized
spheres called chondrules, the major component of primitive
meteorites...(more)
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 March
2, 2005
Their
Majesties King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway Open Seminars
on Transatlantic Relations
On
the occasion of the official visit to the United States of
Their Majesties King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway, two
seminars on transatlantic relations are held at the Carnegie
Institution, March 4, 2005.
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 February
14, 2005
First gamma-ray bursts
detected by new NASA satellite pinpointed by Carnegie and
Caltech astronomers
Cosmic
gamma-ray bursts produce more energy in the blink of an eye,
than the Sun will release in its entire lifetime. These short-lived
explosions appear to be the death throes of massive stars,
and, many scientists believe, mark the birth of black holes.
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 January
27, 2005
New
puzzle-piece shows how growth hormones work in plants
Both
plant and animal growth is controlled by steroid hormones-signaling
molecules that tell specific genes in cells to begin the physiological
process of increasing cell size.
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