Washington, DC, October 23, 2023 — As climate change warms the Earth, higher-latitude regions will be at greater risk for toxins produced by algal blooms, according to new research led by Carnegie’s Anna Michalak, Julian Merder, and Gang Zhao. Their findings, published in Nature Water, identify water temperatures of 20 to 25 degrees Celsius (68 to 77 […]
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To Reduce Pollution, Policymakers Should Broaden Focus Beyond Smokestacks
Sept. 11, 2019 – Emissions from air pollutants are associated with premature mortality. Between 2008 and 2014, air pollution health damage from fine particulate matter exposure fell by 20 percent in the United States. There are four sectors in the U.S. economy that together are responsible for over 75 percent of air pollution damage but […]
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Carnegie Science: Help name five newly discovered moons of Jupiter!
February 22, 2019 – In July 2018, Carnegie’s Scott Sheppard announced the discovery of 12 new moons orbiting Jupiter—11 “normal” outer moons, and one that he called an “oddball.” This brought Jupiter’s total number of known moons to a whopping 79—the most of any planet in our Solar System. Now you can help Sheppard and his co-discoverers […]
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Where is Earth’s submoon?
Pasadena, CA, Jan. 23 2019 – “Can moons have moons?” This simple question — asked by the four-year old son of Carnegie’s Juna Kollmeier — started it all. Not long after this initial bedtime query, Kollmeier was coordinating a program at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) on the Milky Way while her one-time […]
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Beyond deep fakes: Transforming video content into another video’s style, automatically
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 11, 2018– Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have devised a way to automatically transform the content of one video into the style of another, making it possible to transfer the facial expressions of comedian John Oliver to those of a cartoon character, or to make a daffodil bloom in much the same way […]
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Plasma-spewing quasar shines light on universe’s youth, early galaxy formation
PASADENA, CA, July 9, 2018 – Carnegie’s Eduardo Bañados led a team that found a quasar with the brightest radio emission ever observed in the early universe, due to it spewing out a jet of extremely fast-moving material. Bañados’ discovery was followed up by Emmanuel Momjian of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, which allowed the […]
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Modern volcanism tied to events occurring soon after Earth’s birth
Washington, DC March 1, 2018 – Plumes of hot magma from the volcanic hotspot that formed Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean rise from an unusually primitive source deep beneath the Earth’s surface, according to new work in Nature from Carnegie’s Bradley Peters, Richard Carlson, and Mary Horan along with James Day of the Scripps […]
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Models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may be underestimating future warming
WASHINGTON, DC, Dec. 6, 2017 – The climate models that project greater amounts of warming this century are the ones that best align with observations of the current climate, according to a new paper from Carnegie’s Patrick Brown and Ken Caldeira published by Nature. Their findings suggest that the models used by the Intergovernmental Panel […]
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Our Solar System’s ‘shocking’ origin story
WASHINGTON, DC, Aug. 3, 2017 – According to one longstanding theory, our Solar System’s formation was triggered by a shock wave from an exploding supernova. The shock wave injected material from the exploding star into a neighboring cloud of dust and gas, causing it to collapse in on itself and form the Sun and its […]
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‘Chemtrails’ not real, say leading atmospheric science experts
WASHINGTON, DC, Aug. 12, 2016 – Well-understood physical and chemical processes can easily explain the alleged evidence of a secret, large-scale atmospheric spraying program, commonly referred to as “chemtrails” or “covert geoengineering,” concludes a new study from Carnegie Science, University of California Irvine, and the nonprofit organization Near Zero. Some groups and individuals erroneously believe […]