Life lessons from my own big, fat international crisis
By SHRUTI SHARMA // Following my passion for science to the United States has been a life-defining moment for me. Leaving my parents and everything familiar behind – it’s one…
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With a wing and a grant, SBU researchers set to soar
By GREGORY ZELLER // High-flying Stony Brook University researchers will take to the skies to better understand atmospheric chemistry in two very different places. Fueled by National Science Foundation grants…
PILOT lands lights, cameras, action in Port Washington
By GREGORY ZELLER // Spoiler alert: Hollywood is coming soon to a Long Island county near you. Actually, pandemics notwithstanding, television and movie production is already thriving on the Island…
Pay attention: TikTok has already changed the world
By DAVID CHAUVIN // For those who don’t regularly interact with Generation Z, TikTok’s meteoric rise to the forefront of public attention is somewhat bewildering. Throw in the president’s public…
For fisheries’ sake, a voyage to the bottom of the sea
By GREGORY ZELLER // The annual Dropping of the Junk has once again killed two birds with one stone, while saving a whole bunch of fish. In what has become…
Study: In pandemic’s wake, expect LI land-use changes
By GREGORY ZELLER // When the pandemic is finally over, expect a drastically different Long Island land-use landscape. So predicts the Long Island Regional Planning Council, which this week announced…
The crowd goes quiet: For sports, the psyche of silence
By GREGORY ZELLER // You’ve been there, sports fan: bottom of the ninth, sudden-death overtime, one-point lead, two-minute warning, third and long, the odd-man rush, the alley-oop, the champ goes…
Without galas and dinners, will charities go hungry?
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // If this were any other year, our mailboxes would be overflowing with charitable-event invitations and we’d spend the next three months sprinting between Crest Hollow Country…
That one time it all worked out for LI, thanks to IPS
By GREGORY ZELLER // A masterstroke of Long Island socioeconomics – how it should work, or at least how regional rainmakers wish it would – has come full circle. Forward…
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…
SUNY’s LI schools look good as COVID tracker debuts
By GREGORY ZELLER // Note to the party crowds on SUNY’s 64 statewide campuses: Big Doctor is watching. With colleges and universities across the land reporting significant COVID-19 outbreaks –…
A ‘common sense’ call for nursing home visitations
By TERRY LYNAM // We buried my 91-year-old father-in-law on Aug. 21 at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale, one day after his wake, where most of his family saw him…
Safety before business, then lots of business, at BFCU
By WAYNE GROSSÉ // The last six months gave us all the chance to take a step back and look at things differently. Central to all decisions, however, was and…
On bread alone? Definitely willing to give it a try…
By KATE FULLAM // As we enter month six of dealing with COVID-19, the scope of this unprecedented experience begins to come clear – and so do our national coping…
Laugh, and your super-accelerated AI laughs with you
By GREGORY ZELLER // New York Institute of Technology computer-science researchers are pushing artificial intelligence ever closer to human norms – including efforts to help AI better understand human emotion….