Power of 3
SBU’s Heather Lynch records plunge in chinstrap penguin population
By Daniel Dunaief
The canary in the Arctic coal mines, chinstrap penguins need more ice. These multitudinous flightless birds also depend on the survival and...
Stony Brook University honors three inaugural research endowed chairs
By Daniel Dunaief
A heart and lung doctor, a researcher who works on imaging for schizophrenia and a scientist working with a mutation that affects...
BNL scientists avoid polar bears, study tiny aerosols near North Pole
By Daniel Dunaief
Two researchers from Brookhaven National Laboratory were stuck on a ship trapped in ice near the North Pole — and they couldn’t...
Power of 3: SBU’s Maureen O’Leary makes MorphoBank funding plans
By Daniel Dunaief
Like the great white shark that needs to keep swimming to stay alive, scientific databases that provide resources to researchers from all...
BNL, Cornell’s ‘green’ accelerator design now a reality
By Daniel Dunaief
Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Cornell University have tested and developed a new “green” accelerator. Capturing and reusing the energy from...
CSHL’s Zhang finds unexpected role for vitamin B6 in leukemia
By Daniel Dunaief
In the span of a few months, Lingbo Zhang, a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory fellow, has made discoveries involving two deadly blood...
SBU, CSHL team scores $4.2M NCI grant for prostate cancer studies
By Daniel Dunaief
Pulling together experts from a variety of fields, scientists at Stony Brook University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have demonstrated promise in...
SBU’s Peng Zhang hopes microgrids stabilize power delivery amid storms
By Daniel Dunaief
If Peng Zhang succeeds in his work, customers on Long Island and elsewhere will no longer lose power for days or even...
SBU’s Adam Singer shows benefits of lowering potassium for emergency room patients
By Daniel Dunaief
A patient comes rushing into the emergency room at a hospital. He has numerous symptoms and, perhaps, preexisting conditions, that the staff...
CSHL’s Dave Jackson makes plant discoveries, adds new staff
By Daniel Dunaief
Just as humans have competing impulses — should we eat or exercise, should we wait outside in the rain to meet a...
