The East End’s icy innovation history, on the rocks
By KATE FULLAM // Ice … great for skating and sipping, but a bit problematic for getting around. Unfortunately, far too many friends have suffered broken wrists and fractured ankles…
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New website, hot tech set energy innovator’s course
By GREGORY ZELLER // Energy efficiency has a new online home. That’s the word from Stony Brook-based ThermoLift, which has flipped the switch on a new user-friendly, information-rich website designed…
LI biotech veterans attacking COVID from unique angle
By GREGORY ZELLER // The National Institutes of Health is backing an early-stage Kings Park biotech’s quest for non-antibiotic-based COVID-19 treatments. CMTx Biotech has non-antimicrobials in its sights and a…
In NYSERDA’s ‘Strategic Outlook,’ a sunny LI forecast
By GREGORY ZELLER // You have to say this about NYSERDA: They think big. The New York State Energy Research & Development Authority has unveiled a three-year “Strategic Outlook” combining…
Things is: For LI’s boldest, IoT opportunities abound
By MITCH MAIMAN // While smart, connected devices – collectively known as the Internet of Things – are already maturing, there are still incredible new business opportunities to be discovered…
Picture this: BIM plays big for New York Tech startup
By GREGORY ZELLER // A 2020 tech startup born in the fires of the pandemic is quickly making a name among regional architects – and is helping a new generation…
Hofstra plays past pandemic with new Innovation Prize
By GREGORY ZELLER // Hofstra University’s most ambitious business-acceleration effort has added a hefty prize for creative pandemic-related thinking. Along with partners Northwell Health, New York City-based media/tech firm Digital…
A Florida innovator makes a big move on Long Island
By GREGORY ZELLER // With Red Rover, you haul – they innovate. A new, better way for humans to relocate their lives has been the modus operandi of Florida-based Red…
As interests align, expect ‘net-zero’ investment to rise
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // We confront new reports every day describing new threats to the environment – the harsh realities of global climate change. Fortunately, our efforts to deal…
After COVID hell, Mount Sinai staffers snag golden tix
By GREGORY ZELLER // Four Long Island heroes will join thousands of doctors, nurses and other front-line healthcare providers in Tampa for this Sunday’s Super Bowl LV. The National Football…
In med-tech alliance, a second Twin Cities shot for IPS
By GREGORY ZELLER // Award-winning product design firms from Long Island and Minnesota are synchronizing their efforts in the red-hot med-tech space. Hauppauge-based Intelligent Product Solutions and Coon Rapids-based Kablooe…
Good news on cancer, but it can always be better
By RICHARD BARAKAT // It used to be that health statistics were something that only academics, medical researchers and clinicians cared about. Now they’re a key part of the daily…
True story: Either we kill fake news, or it kills us
By DAVID CHAUVIN // Like millions of Americans, I paused my normal routine Jan. 20 to watch the swearing-in of President Joe Biden. And like so many Americans, I was…
Adelphi, FSC grease the skids on key graduate degrees
By GREGORY ZELLER // Two Long Island higher-ed institutions are uniting to give collegians a running start on their graduate degrees. Farmingdale State College and Garden City-based Adelphi University have…
Now entering the arena: You, thanks to this
By GREGORY ZELLER // An interesting new vertical continues to soar at Woodbury-based Janam Technologies, where workplace-tough tech is making room for Age of Coronavirus-inspired tools. The latest example comes…