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  • Carnegie Mellon scientist confirms liquid-liquid phase transition in silicon

    Using rigorous computer calculations, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington have established evidence that supercooled silicon experiences a liquid- ...
  • A stress meter for fault zones

    For the first time, scientists from Rice University, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have measured — in ...
  • The first new mineral with post-spinel structure is approved by CNMNC of IMA

    ... of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, which has recently been approved by the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and ...
  • Worlds in collision

    ... 's planetary system," Muno said. Those expectations were shown to be premature, however, when Carnegie Institution of Washington astronomer Alycia Weinberger announced in the May 20, 2008, issue ...
  • Oldest known rock on Earth discovered

    ... by geologists Jonathan O'Neil of McGill University and Richard Carlson of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. By measuring minute variations in the isotopic composition of the rare earth ...
  • 'Lost' Miller-Urey experiment created more of life's building blocks

    ... NASA's Indiana-Princeton-Tennessee Astrobiology Institute. In his May 15, 1953, article in Science ... Mexico biologist Antonio Lazcano, Carnegie Institution of Washington chemist James Cleaves, and NASA ...
  • First ground-based detection of light from transiting exoplanets

    ... The other team, involving David Sing (IAP, France) and Mercedes Lopez-Morales (Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA), had a different approach. They looked at a much fainter star and its planet, ...
  • Astronomers get a sizzling weather report from a distant planet

    ... California & Carnegie Planet Search team--Steve Vogt at UCSC and Paul Butler at the Carnegie Institute of Washington--provided precise information about the planet's orbit, which was essential for ...
  • An impossible alloy now possible

    ... the National Academy of Science, USA. A research team led by Professor H.K. Mao from Carnegie Institution of Washington and Professor Rajeev Ahuja from UU have used high pressure ...
  • Astronomy's bright future

    ... for the prevalence of life in the universe. Alan Boss, an astrophysicist at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, DC, describes the coming revolution in extrasolar planetology. The Moon has been ...
  • Review in honor of tomorrow's scheduled Kepler launch

    ... of other solar systems with habitable Earth-like planets. A research scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Boss is both a renowned authority on the formation of stars and planets and a ...
  • CU-Boulder scientists detect magnesium in MESSENGER flyby of Mercury

    ... of Maryland, Ann Sprague of the University of Arizona and Sean Solomon of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C. Solomon is the MESSENGER principal investigator. The CU-Boulder instrument ...
  • New cleaning protocol for future 'search for life' missions

    ... AMASE and was funded by a NASA ASTEP award to co-author Andrew Steele at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and grants from the Earth and Biosphere Institute at the University of Leeds to Liane G ...
  • Plants save the earth from an icy doom

    ... of CO2 in the atmosphere has cooled the Earth. Researchers at Yale University, the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the University of Sheffield now show that land plants saved the Earth from a ...
  • On the path to metallic hydrogen

    ... gas, but at high pressures it may turn into a superconductor. Now, scientists at the Carnegie Institution in Washington D.C., US, have discovered a hydrogen-based compound that could be helpful in ...

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