As confidence lags, LI tourism team finds perfect ‘Fit’
By GREGORY ZELLER // Long Island’s top tourism agency is working hard to pep up lagging consumer confidence in the Age of Coronavirus. Discover Long Island, self-billed as “the official…
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Return to Mars: SBU scientist back in the PIXL
By GREGORY ZELLER // Joel Hurowitz just can’t get off Mars. Hurowitz is not at all like the “The Martian,” titular hero of novelist Andy Weir’s smash hit about a…
Suffolk IDA signs off on Spectronics Corp. move
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of President Trump’s most vocal corporate-sector critics will keep his international manufacturing business on Long Island, with help from the Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency….
Understanding executive orders (at least, trying to)
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // Federal and state governments have issued numerous emergency executive orders to cope with COVID-19. Simply keeping track of these orders is a full-time job; compliance…
Coghlan: Opportunity abounds, for the flexible
By HARRY COGHLAN // It is disorientating (to say the least) to think back on our original plans and goals for 2020, and realize how so many of them had…
Northwell experts update brain cancer biotechnology
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Northwell Health inner circle with deep biotechnology roots has issued a “comprehensive update” of breakthroughs in brain tumor research. The roadmap of next-generation advances in…
With impressive speed, MachWall CONNECT has landed
By GREGORY ZELLER // If there’s one thing that’s going to bring society together again in the Age of Coronavirus, it’s building a wall. In fact, a whole bunch of…
Science, numbers back Applied DNA’s COVID-19 serums
By GREGORY ZELLER // With scientists around the world racing toward a COVID-19 vaccine, serums manufactured by a Long Island biotech are showing significant promise – both medically and economically….
For employers, Direct answers to important questions
By TERRY LYNAM // Working in the medical field, you become accustomed to certain things in your social life. It’s a running joke that doctors are often asked to diagnose…
Citing scofflaws, state resets restaurant restrictions
By GREGORY ZELLER // You want fries with that? You better, if you plan to order a beer. A menu of new pandemic-flavored rules handed down from Albany on Thursday…
In space, no one checks your ID (but they do on Earth)
By GREGORY ZELLER // New examinations of the universe’s “baby photos” have confirmed what some scientists suspected all along: Existence, as we know it, began 13.8 billion years ago. That’s…
As staycations soar, Jones Beach gets its game on
By GREGORY ZELLER // Let the games begin at Jones Beach State Park, where the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation has officially completed a multimillion-dollar…
As summer sizzles, East End farmers make their stand
By KATE FULLAM // July on the East End of Long Island is magical (aside from the traffic). Foodies marvel at the local bounty, which starts trending now toward its…
Applied DNA ups ante, again, with Clinical Labs spinoff
By GREGORY ZELLER // One of Long Island’s busiest biotechs has spun off another local startup, this time focused on testing its own potential breakthroughs. Stony Brook-based Applied DNA Sciences,…
Tomorrow’s turbines, today, on SBU supercomputers
By GREGORY ZELLER // Supercomputers, artificial intelligence and next-generation turbine controls will work together to design the offshore wind farms of the future – a key step for the burgeoning…