The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will announce the winner or winners of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Oct. 7. Later that day, Carnegie Mellon University will gather to celebrate the legacy...

Carnegie Mellon University graduate student Sindhu Murthy earned a CMS Award for her work developing a database for a Large Hadron Collider upgrade project.

Carnegie Mellon University graduate student Sidharth Hariharan leads an effort to verify a proof created by a Fields Medalist.

In dark skies at night, distant star light twinkles and speaks to vast cosmic histories almost as old as time itself. New data from instruments such as NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope are helping as...

Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Chemistry and the PPG Foundation funded the PPG Scholar Teams program, where undergraduate and graduate students partner on research ranging from cleaning wa...

Decades of pollution at Pittsburgh brownfields left bacteria that evolved to survive it – and maybe help clean up contaminated soil.

Kyunghoo Mun, a doctoral student in Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Mathematical Sciences, works to understand the mechanisms behind AI systems.

The recently launched Genesis Mission includes a wide range of projects aimed at using advanced computing and AI to tackle some of the biggest challenges in science. One of those projects, led by rese...

A new study from Carnegie Mellon University introduces a way to quantify one of the most elusive properties of cell membranes: the Gaussian curvature modulus. The new measurement helps to predict how ...

Elizabeth Smith earned two Carnegie Mellon University honors for her research understanding and addressing environmental contaminants.

Carnegie Mellon University scientists have uncovered a new phenomenon that challenges a long-standing assumption about how electronic materials respond to magnetic fields. The discovery broadens the f...

A rare stellar explosion has allowed astronomers to follow the death of a massive star from start to finish, yielding one of the most complete datasets ever collected for such an event. A Carnegie Mel...

Carnegie Mellon student Ethan Tran applies mathematical knowledge to two chemistry startups.

Carnegie Mellon University faculty and graduate students played a significant role in the International Congress of Mathematicians and its satellite conferences.

A large collaboration of researchers mapped a cubic millimeter of brain, and Carnegie Mellon University's Xaq Pitkow is using this data to make neuroscience breakthroughs.

Forever chemicals are so prevalent in consumer goods that they can be detected in nearly everyone.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and partners at the University of Washington are collaborating with the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory on a new Genesis Miss...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a powerful new approach to studying how bacteria form and dissolve biofilms, and this method is already providing new insights into Streptococc...

The European Academy of Sciences (EurASc) has named Carnegie Mellon University’s Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, a recipient of the 2026 Blaise Pascal Medal in Chemistry.

Recent Carnegie Mellon University graduate Carmella Li applies physics principles to understand artificial intelligence.

In labs throughout Pittsburgh, scientists work across disciplines and institutions to better understand how cells function and how cellular processes shape human health.

Cell membranes are dynamic, two-sided structures made of asymmetric lipid layers. While lipids can randomly flip-flop from one layer to the other, membrane proteins sort lipids between the two sides. ...

The new Richard King Mellon Hall of Sciences will provide new laboratories for the Department of Biological Sciences, enhancing student learning.

Carnegie Mellon University graduate Katherine Wang is creating bioinformatics tools to make NCBI analysis more accessible and accelerate breakthroughs in the fight against bacterial diseases.

The evolution of moir\'e minibands under varying carrier density and displacement field may be directly visualized using microfocused angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy.

Your home, particularly the damp areas, may be crawling with microbes. Here's how to contain them.

The social media trend known as #BeanTok has turned lowly legumes like lentils, chickpeas and black beans into unlikely internet celebrities. Videos showcasing...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) have discovered a genetic molecule that could provide new approaches to treating certain types of breast cancer. CMU-Q is a Qatar Foundation ...

Irene Fonseca, Kavčić-Moura University Professor of Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University, has been named a 2026 Fields Institute Fellow, a prestigious honor recognizing outstanding contributions ...

A new study from Carnegie Mellon University identifies a mechanism that controls how cell condensate patterns form and how they play a key role in a cell’s function.

A groundbreaking study reveals a precise new way to rewire brain circuits — opening the door to potential treatments that go beyond the traditional approaches of medication or external stimulation and...

The sport of soccer features countless moments where movement and judgment calls happen in less than a second. For athletes, what separates the good from the great — and the elite on the FIFA Wo...

Carnegie Mellon University mathematician Florian Frick explores how problems related to fairness, arrangements and patterns can reveal hidden geometric structure when viewed from the right perspective...

Carnegie Mellon University mathematician Mykhaylo (Misha) Shkolnikov has been named a 2026 Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), one of the highest honors in the fields of statisti...

Carnegie Mellon University physicists have confirmed some of the mechanics behind cellular membrane motions through a mix of experiments and mathematical modeling.

Graduate students play a key role in mentoring undergraduates in CMU’s Department of Chemistry through the new PPG Scholar Teams program.

Carnegie Mellon University’s Aryn Gittis and colleagues suggest the most recognizable symptoms of Parkinson's disease result from disruptions in different motor circuits of the brain, an insight that ...

REAL CHEM is helping reimagine one of higher education’s most important gateway courses: first-year chemistry. In this latest installment of his Doubling Down series, Allan Golston explores how facult...

A Carnegie Mellon University startup is using advanced chemistry and artificial intelligence to help speed up the search for new cancer drugs. Pierogi Therapeutics’ AI accelerated computational models...

Calvin Hoffman, who graduated in 2024 with a major in physics and a minor in computer science, is the Kansas City Royals amateur draft analyst, a role at the intersection of scientific problem solving...

Your body likely contains an accumulation of various PFAS types, making it difficult to trace them to their sources.

Recent Carnegie Mellon University graduate Jingjing Xu earned the Mellon College of Science Gilman Award.

Recent Carnegie Mellon University graduate Ashley Hackney earned a Gilman Award for her commitment and growth over her time in the Mellon College of Science.

Mahitha Chaturvedula earned the Mellon College of Science Fugassi and Monteverde Award for her work in genetic research.