For humans, the most important star in the universe is the Sun. The second most important star is nestled inside in the Andromeda galaxy. Don’t go looking for it. The flickering star is 2.2 million ...

Christelle Wauthier, an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University, will give a talk titled "Magma pathways and earthquake triggering: Insights from satellite radar observations" at 2 p.m.

Colloquium: Illuminating the dark universe with nearby low-mass galaxies ...

Join Dr. Chris Ballentine, University of Oxford, UK, for "The three geochemical stages of a planet: accretion; evolution; and exploitation" with host Peter van Keken.

Loÿc VanderKluysen, an assistant professor in the Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science at Drexel University, will give a talk titled "It’s a Trap! Origin, emplacement and impact ...

In this talk, I will present new approaches developed in my lab to observe, image, characterize and model the growth of root systems. We have developed a new type of substrate, named “transparent soil ...

Although many studies provide examples of evolutionary processes such as balancing selection or deleterious polymorphism, the relative importance of these processes for phenotypic variation is unclear ...

Dimitar D. Sasselov, from Harvard University, will present his lecture in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road Campus. Coffee, tea, and a light breakfast will be served before ...

Magnetic fields are thought to govern the lifetime of protoplanetary disks by mediating the inward accretion of gas. At finer scales, magnetic instabilities may have led to turbulent eddies where the ...

A Sky Full of Satellites: Implications for Professional and Amateur Astronomers ...

Salvatore Calabrese is an assistant professor of Biological & Agricultural Engineering of Plant Sciences at Texas A&M University. The Rosa Lab hosts his seminar As global warming and shifting rainfall ...

Plant-associated microbial communities play crucial roles in determining the host phenotype. A subset of the plant-associated bacteria and fungi offer benefits to crop species through increasing ...