Twists, turns, less sugar mark Hylux’s road to success
By GREGORY ZELLER // A five-year-old startup with a taste for healthy living has hit it big – just what founder Lamar Letts wanted, though the path to success was…
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Machine learning shines in weather-forecasting study
By GREGORY ZELLER // Jokes about the weatherman’s predictive powers will be harder to land, if artificial intelligence takes over the long-range forecasting. That’s according to a new scientific study…
Innovation required as fatal overdoses spike again
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // Everyone knows the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. That’s why, as we address a…
Scholarships, Super Bowl tix lure the vaccine-hesitant
By GREGORY ZELLER // Albany is getting more creative in its efforts to convince New Yorkers to get a COVID-19 vaccination. Following Ohio’s lead – earlier this month, the Buckeye…
Business Council’s 12-point plan aims to rescue retail
By GREGORY ZELLER // A comprehensive “preliminary” report on the state of Long Island retail details across-the-board shortfalls – many are pandemic-related – and offers a clear strategy to breathe…
Around the world with StorEn, riding a vanadium flow
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Stony Brook startup’s whiz-bang energy-storage technology is doing its thing in Australia – first stop on what’s shaping up as a global energy-efficiency tour. StorEn…
Smoothing it out on the road to economic recovery
By GREGORY ZELLER // Albany is pouring more than $30 million into a multifaceted Long Island road-resurfacing effort. Specifically, the New York State Department of Transportation will be doing the…
Corporate reinvention is key in a post-pandemic world
By TERRY LYNAM // Finally, after more than 14 months of heartache, isolation and economic fallout from the worst pandemic in our lifetime, we’re returning – ever so slowly –…
Feinstein stacks bioelectronics deck with another ace
By GREGORY ZELLER // Northwell Health’s research-and-development mecca has secured a cutting-edge leader for what is arguably its most forward-thinking department. Bioelectronic medicine, focused on electrical signaling within the central…
Law-less LIA looks within for presidential successor
By GREGORY ZELLER // An old friend has been named the Long Island Association’s new leader. Matthew Cohen, a former government relations executive director for the Long Island Power Authority…
New collaboration cuts to the heart of RNA splicing
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory spinoff and a Massachusetts-based neuroscience trailblazer are teaming up to advance ribonucleic acid splicing research – key to addressing several central…
New York unmasked as state races toward ‘normalcy’
By GREGORY ZELLER // Who was that masked man? The familiar question, first made famous by the “Lone Ranger” radio and television serials of the early 20th century, took on…
Participation essential as East End faces unsure future
By KATE FULLAM // Morning traffic in front of my Hampton Bays home always signals late spring, as diesel engines, squeaking brakes and blaring car radios mingle with backyard birdsong….
Downtown breakdown details imbalance, path forward
By GREGORY ZELLER // A COVID-sized dent in retail businesses and a disproportionate impact on communities of color highlight a new report detailing the pandemic’s effects on Long Island downtowns…
For the toilet-anxious, coaches who really talk $#!+
By GREGORY ZELLER // From the westernmost reaches of Long Island, and a place very close to our hearts, comes Tushy – the Brooklyn-based bidet business that stands ready (or…