Small screen, big honor for Emmy-nominated series
By GREGORY ZELLER // And the Emmy Award nominations go to … HJMT Public Relations! Whether the Long Beach-based PR house walks away with a golden statuette remains to be…
Brookhaven National Laboratory
No. 605: On Virginians, evil utensils and IT intros – and the day the Windows opened
Downs and ups: The first workweek of summer knocked down, the first weekend of the season queued up – well played, intrepid reader. It’s Friday, June 25, and we’re…
When videogame history called, Player One was ready
By TOM MARINER // Videogame sales are a $179 billion industry these days, more revenue than the global movie ($100 billion) and North American sports ($75 billion) industries combined. Names…
Innovation in the Age of Coronavirus
Vaccinations are ramping up and the pandemic is winding down, but COVID-19 continues to reshape the world around us. And myriad Long Island forces – large and small, corporate and…
When the laser wars raged across Long Island
By TOM MARINER // Lasers are everywhere: medicine, communications, pointers, Hollywood ray guns. “LASER,” of course, is an acronym for “Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation,” coined by Gordon…
No. 574: Digital directives, physical accomplishments and sprouting NursePods (with sticky orange fingers)
Cheesy opening line: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, and the last leg of another exciting and exhausting socioeconomic sprint. It’s March 5 out there, still living in infamy in…
No. 570: In which Kellogg’s, Cracker Jack snacks and tartar sauce all get a taste – and science strikes back
Will this never end? Yes, it will, dear readers! Not only does this latest wintry workweek wrap up today, but the snow does, too – and, lo and behold,…
With Next Cryo, a startup that’s really cooling its jets
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Stony Brook University scientist who came in from the cold is getting some serious chills – and this time, he’s really got something to cryo…
No. 546: The wait continues – with bread stuffing, Emma Stone and undead ferrets
Your guess is as good as ours: Here we are, dear readers – it’s Nov. 6 on Long Island and around the world, and as we put the newsletter…
No. 545: Hanging with Cronkite, King Tut and Long Island particle physicists, as the smoke clears
Is it over? Not quite, dear readers – but the voting is done, there’s a hard stop on those miserable campaign commercials and the endless election signs blockin’ out…
SBU and BNL score, on collision course with awesome
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Long Island research team has earned a rare U.S. Department of Energy honor – and helped usher scientists toward startling new discovering about the universe’s…
No. 530: Mars in focus, Hamilton in charge, Bozo on board – and a big win for Long Island innovation
Lives in infamy: Welcome to Friday, the end of a surprisingly humid late-summer workweek and the doorstep of another hard-earned weekend – well done, dear readers. It’s Sept. 11…
Quantum powers unite in Island’s $115M QIS center
By GREGORY ZELLER // A $115 million research effort rooted at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University will try to push the United States to the head of the…
Debrief: Big stage, challenges for sonic Boomgaarden
For his next number, Donald Boomgaarden is playing way past Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” (an aria plus 30 riffs, mastered years ago). The longtime concert pianist became St. Joseph’s College’s eighth…
Thanks for the Quantum Memory: DOE backs Qunnect
By GREGORY ZELLER // A red-hot “Quantum Memory” technology has secured a seven-figure federal grant for a Stony Brook startup with plans for ultra-secure global communications. Qunnect Inc., which leverages…