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Tropical plants go with the flow…of nitrogen
Stanford, CA – Tropical plants are able to adapt to environmental change by extracting nitrogen from a variety of sources, according to a new study that appears in the May 7 early online edition of The...
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Introducing Carnegie's Eye in the Sky
The skies over Hawaii buzz with the propellers of small aircraft. Most of them ferry people among the islands, or give tourists a glimpse of inaccessible locales. But there is one among the swarm that...
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Surprises Stream back from Mercury’s MESSENGER
After a journey of more than 2.2 billion miles and three and a half years, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft made its first flyby of Mercury just after 2 PM Eastern Standard Time on January 14, 2008. All...
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Carnegie's First Light Students Celebrate DNA Day
Carnegie's First Light Saturday school students celebrate DNA Day by extracting the molecule from strawberries and humans. Join their experiments in this video.
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Global Limits of Biomass Energy
Biomass energy—energy generated from agricultural waste or specially grown energy crops—has been widely touted as a clean, renewable alternative to fossil fuels. Research is booming to improve energy...
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MESSENGER settles old debates and makes new discoveries at Mercury
For more see http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/telecon4.htmlhttp://www.nasa.gov/messenger
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Carnegie’s Chris Field Elected Co-chair of IPCC Working Group 2
Stanford, CA—Director of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology, Christopher Field, has been elected co-chair of Working Group 2 of the Nobel-Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on...
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MESSENGER Reveals More “Hidden”Territory on Mercury
Gliding over the battered surface of Mercury for the second time this year, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft has revealed even more previously unseen real estate on the innermost planet, sending home...
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Mysterious Space Blob Discovered at Cosmic Dawn
Pasadena, CA—Using information from a suite of telescopes, astronomers have discovered a mysterious, giant object that existed at a time when the universe was only about 800 million years old. Objects...
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Chris Field on Greenhouse Gases from the Developing World
In a recent interview, scientist and director of Carnegie's Department of Global Ecology, Chris Field, describes the historic shift taking place in the production of greenhouse gases. As their...
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Season’s Greetings from Carnegie
This image was selected as our holiday card for 2009. It is a portion of AraNet, a gene association network built from over 50 million data points of functional genomics data from the experimental...
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Astronomers detect earliest galaxies
See image and caption http://www.ciw.edu/ prlabbehudfz7andz8picbig1_4_10_jpgPasadena, CA—Astronomers, using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, have broken the distance limit for galaxies by uncovering a...
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Carbon Emissions ‘Outsourced’ to Developing Countries
A new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science finds that over a third of carbon dioxide emissions associated with consumption of goods and services in many developed countries are...
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Bald Eagle Diet Shift Enhances Conservation
Washington, D.C.—An unprecedented study of bald eagle diet, from about 20,000 to 30,000 years ago to the present, will provide wildlife managers with unique information for reintroducing Bald Eagles to...
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Global Tropical Forests Threatened by 2100
Palo Alto, CA—By 2100 only 18% to 45% of the plants and animals making up ecosystems in global, humid tropical forests may remain as we know them today, according to a new study led by Greg Asner at...
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Carnegie Airborne Observatory: Mapping Video
Some 55% of tropical forests are negatively affected by land use practices and deforestation worldwide. But the ability to penetrate the canopy to see what’s going on has been lacking until now. Global...
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Revisiting 1950s experiments for signs of life's origin
In the 1950s, biochemist Stanley Miller performed a series of experiments to demonstrate that organic compounds could be created under conditions mimicking the primordial Earth. Some unused samples...
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Video: President of Colombia Visits Carnegie Study Area
The Global Ecology team recently completed the airborne phase of a new project to map 35 million acres of tropical forest in the Colombian Amazon. The project seeks to quantify the carbon composition...
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