The composition of Earth's mantle was more shaped by interactions with the oceanic crust than previously thought, according to work from Carnegie's Jonathan Tucker and Peter van Keken along with colleagues from Oxford that ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 1, 2020
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When a meteorite hurtles through the atmosphere and crashes to Earth, how does its violent impact alter the minerals found at the landing site? What can the short-lived chemical phases created by these extreme impacts teach ...
Materials Science
Aug 26, 2020
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New work led by Carnegie's Peng Ni and Anat Shahar uncovers new details about our Solar System's oldest planetary objects, which broke apart in long-ago collisions to form iron-rich meteorites. Their findings reveal that ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 3, 2020
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A team of astronomers including Carnegie's Ting Li and Alexander Ji discovered a stellar stream composed of the remnants of an ancient globular cluster that was torn apart by the Milky Way's gravity 2 billion years ago, when ...
Astronomy
Jul 29, 2020
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How did the chemical makeup of our planet's core shape its geologic history and habitability?
Earth Sciences
Jul 6, 2020
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You've heard the expression 'form follows function'? In materials science, function follows form.
Materials Science
Jul 1, 2020
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New work from a team of Carnegie cell, genomic and developmental biologists solves a longstanding marine science mystery that could aid coral conservation. The researchers identified the type of cell that enables a soft coral ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 17, 2020
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The universe is full of billions of galaxies—but their distribution across space is far from uniform. Why do we see so much structure in the universe today and how did it all form and grow?
Astronomy
Apr 27, 2020
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Carbon is essential for life as we know it and plays a vital role in many of our planet's geologic processes—not to mention the impact that carbon released by human activity has on the planet's atmosphere and oceans. Despite ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 1, 2020
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A new kind of astronomical observation helped reveal the possible evolutionary history of a baby Neptune-like exoplanet.
Astronomy
Mar 10, 2020
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