Power of 3
Local celebrations match those around the world for opening of historic telescope
By Daniel Dunaief
Monday, June 23, marked the beginning of a new and exciting frontier. Using the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy, the...
SBU brings in multi-talented Lav Varshney from Illinois as head of AI Institute
By Daniel Dunaief
Lav Varshney has made significant contributions to everything from public policy as a White House Fellow to generating new recipes through the...
SBU’s Jeannette Mahoney a finalist in start up challenge for app designed to prevent falls
By Daniel Dunaief
A significant concern for the elderly, falls create health problems that affect the quality of life and generate significant expense.
Stony Brook University’s...
SBU’s Ellen Pikitch, serving as delegate for Monaco, ‘optimistic’ about high seas
By Daniel Dunaief
To borrow from the show Hamilton, Ellen Pikitch was in the room where it happens.
The Endowed Professor of Ocean Conservation Science at...
BNL’s Angelika Drees recounts how rain, cold, and the moon affect high-tech accelerators
By Daniel Dunaief
Finely tuned accelerators, constructed underground in rings that are over 1.5 miles long, can reveal secrets about the smallest parts of matter....
BNL teams up with NASA, DOE to send radio telescope to far side of the moon
By Daniel Dunaief
The Earth is way too noisy.
The far side of the moon, however, can act like enormous noise cancellation headphones, serving as a...
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Ludmila Pollock lauded as fellow of AAAS
By Daniel Dunaief
Ludmila “Mila” Pollock isn’t a scientist, but she has made significant contributions to the field over more than a quarter of a...
BNL’s James Wishart shows reactors cooled by molten salts may have less corrosion
By Daniel Dunaief
Leave a bicycle out in the rain for a few weeks and the metal gears and chain will develop rust that reduces...
CSHL’s Jeremy Borniger helps coordinate first cancer neuroscience course
By Daniel Dunaief
People battling cancer can sometimes live long after they and their doctors first start treating the disease. Even if and when their...
SBU’s Ke Jian Liu scores $2.6 mln from NIH for stroke studies using cancer drugs
By Daniel Dunaief
In the typical process of developing cures for medical problems or diseases, researchers explore the processes and causes and then spend years...
