WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (TNSres) -- The Carnegie Institution for Science issued the following news: * * * Arthur Grossman is Carnegie Science's newest member of the National Academy of Sciences. We sat down with him to discuss his wide-ranging research program and the philosophy that's resulted in decades of groundbreaking plant science. * * * Arthur Grossman didn't set out to develop interdisciplinary expertise across plant sciences. It emerged as a result of his natural curiosity, and the fre more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 -- The Carnegie Institution for Science issued the following news: * * * In 1965, Vera Rubin wasn't just watching history unfold; she was making it--pioneering our understanding of the universe while shattering barriers for women in science. * * * 1965 was a year of opening doors. The Civil Rights Movement was gaining momentum, with the Voting Rights Act dismantling restrictions that had long kept many Americans from the polls. At the same time, the Equal Employment Oppo more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (TNSres) -- The Carnegie Institution for Science issued the following news: * * * Carnegie Science astronomers are building the tools that will help them reveal the physics underpinning the universe and search for life on distant worlds. * * * Carnegie Science astronomers have revolutionized our ideas about the universe. Their success was underpinned by access to our suite of custom-designed and -built telescopes--first at Mount Wilson Observatory in the San Gabriel Mount more PR

COLD SPRING HARBOR, New York, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory issued the following news: Imagine yourself sometime in the far future aboard a routine rocket to Mars. Someone just spilled their drink. Without gravity, it collects in floating blobs that ripple right before your eyes. Now freeze. What you see might look something like the above image from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's (CSHL's) Cheadle lab. But those purple and green blobs aren't the floating remains of som more PR

LAUREL, Maryland, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory issued the following news release: Frontier-X, a breakthrough space communications technology developed at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, was selected as a 2024 R&D 100 Awards winner as one of the top 100 innovations pushing the boundaries of research and development. Frontier-X, which debuted in 2023, is capable of receiving and transmitting signals in multipl more PR