At AEC 2022, high stakes for new energy-storage tech
By GREGORY ZELLER // Albany has awarded $16.6 million to five “long-duration energy-storage projects” – with another $17 million teed up for projects that can harness and store renewable energy….
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Nobel laureate rides gravitational waves to SBU
By GREGORY ZELLER // Add another Nobel Prize laureate to Stony Brook University’s impressive roster. The co-flagship institution of the State University of New York system has recruited world-renowned experimental…
A redevelopment dream comes true at Garvies Point
By JIM McCUNE // Garvies Point is a residential and recreational paradise on Long Island’s North Shore. Most of the present-day Garvies Point Preserve was formerly part of the Garvie…
SoMAS enjoys victory lap after Shinnecock Bay revival
By GREGORY ZELLER // A decade of laboratory research and hands-on experimentation has literally given Shinnecock Bay new life. Scientists from Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences…
At CSHL, excellence has always started at the top
By TOM MARINER // Through 132 years, eight Nobel Prizes and a body of research that’s literally unmatched around the world, one thing has never changed at Cold Spring Harbor…
New brand, same attitude for life’s-a-beach retailer
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Paging Jimmy Buffet File comes Wakes & Waves, a rebranded lifestyle enterprise on an endless-summer quest. Actually, the season is irrelevant to entrepreneur Anthony…
Following COVID win, Island biotech targets monkeypox
By GREGORY ZELLER // Applied DNA Sciences is ready to play a little monkey ball. The Stony Brook-based biotech – part supply-chain authenticator, part Polymerase Chain Reaction-based DNA technology leader,…
Long Island’s strong case for parking-mandate reform
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // It’s time to take back Long Island’s “seas of asphalt.” New planning and zoning concepts and laws that revise and significantly reduce minimum off-street parking…
AEC 2022 gets the clean-energy band back together
By GREGORY ZELLER // And now back to our regularly scheduled low-carbon economy, already in progress. Four years since last gathering in person – and 14 months since a post-pandemic…
Decades (and one governor) later, ‘Third Track’ opens
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the Third Time’s a Charm Department comes the Long Island Rail Road’s long-debated “Third Track,” finally open for business. Designed to dramatically improve system-wide capacity…
Factcheck: Misinformation is mangling LI innovation
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // When I was young, my parents told me I had to wait 30 minutes after eating before I could go swimming. It had something to…
Northwell unveils $110M Pediatric Surgery Complex
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s a $110 million resource that most Long Island parents will be glad is here – and all hope they never see. Cohen Children’s Medical Center…
ERASE Racism welcomes next social-justice champion
By GREGORY ZELLER // A leading Long Island social-justice advocacy organization has a new leader. The Board of Directors at Syosset-based ERASE Racism announced Monday that attorney Laura Harding –…
Healthcare transparency: More than just a data dump
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // Imagine finding out that you have cancer via a text message while barreling down the Northern State Parkway. I did. It was a Friday, April 1,…
How ‘Innovation and Choice’ Act threatens minority biz
By PHIL ANDREWS // Legislation that politicians claim will protect small businesses from the alleged monopoly power of large tech companies will end up depriving entrepreneurs of vital revenue streams…