CSHL’s Albeanu sniffs out the mouse neurons in smell
Mice rely on their sense of smell for their survival, sniffing out food, finding mates, or scampering away from the butcher’s wife or, more...
Could you be obese and healthy?
Have we entered a fourth dimension, where it’s possible to be obese and healthy? Hold on to your seats for this wild ride. This...
Huntington Station woman found dead at nature preserve
Suffolk County police have deemed criminal the death of a 23-year-old Huntington Station woman whose body was found in the Froehlich Farm Nature Preserve...
BNL and SBU build computer team for enhanced research
They ask far-reaching questions, from looking at exactly how fleeting flame is to exploring supernova to studying chemistry and materials for clean energy production...
Annual medical checkup pros and cons
After reading in the New York Times Week in Review that the annual physical exam may have outlived its usefulness, I pondered whether this...
Stony Brook’s Gruberg performs cutting edge research
As the director of the Research in Interventional Cardiology unit at Stony Brook Medical School, Luis Gruberg does more than 400 procedures a year...
Microbiome and the gut
What I am about to say may be hard to comprehend, especially for those who have germophobic tendencies, which would be most of us,...
Exposing dangers of potent carcinogen
In Taiwan and Balkan countries, Arthur Grollman has seen first hand how Aristolochia, a popular ingredient in herbal remedies, can be anything but helpful.
The...
Studying the cold facts of superconductors
Some objects are like closed boxes. They have some observable properties but scientists don’t know exactly what is happening inside or why.
That’s where experimental...
Working to make nuclear plants safer
That self-described slow jogger who makes his way back and forth along Old Field Road five days a week — when he’s not in...
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