Study gives science the upper hand on Lyme disease
By GREGORY ZELLER // Scientists have deciphered the genetics of dozens of bacteria known to transmit Lyme disease – a major step toward new treatments for the world’s most prevalent…
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PhDs without borders in new engineering consortium
By GREGORY ZELLER // A new multi-college agreement will see New York Institute of Technology and Stony Brook University engineering students attending classes at top Northeast schools including Princeton, Columbia…
An FSC first gives college an air of distinction
By GREGORY ZELLER // Farmingdale State College has its first-ever Distinguished Professor. Department of History, Politics and Geography Professor Robert Saunders has been awarded the prestigious rank by the State…
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…
No. 634: On Beatlemania, bras and an iron baroness, with a head start on your Halloween candy
Already in progress: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we rejoin our broadcast in the middle of another exciting week of socioeconomic innovation and at the midpoint of the…
NSF puts New York Tech on the Edge of Tomorrow
By GREGORY ZELLER // The New York Institute of Technology is living on the edge. Forget the Aerosmith jokes – this is serious business concerning “edge computing,” a distributed-computing paradigm…
Stratospheric sunshield can’t deflect critical questions
By GREGORY ZELLER // Earth – SAI Control Center 04.27.2121 Solar Geoengineering Project: Day 913 Chief engineer’s log: The Stratospheric Aerosol Injection proceeds uninterrupted. SGP drones continue to inject reflective…
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…
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….
Million-dollar grant opens FSC to less-privileged minds
By GREGORY ZELLER // A million-dollar gift from the National Science Foundation will help a classroom’s worth of science- and math-focused Long Island high schoolers enroll at Farmingdale State College….
Social justice shines in annual ERASE Racism awards
By GREGORY ZELLER // A civic-minded entrepreneur, a leading Long Island educator and a longtime champion of social-equality causes have been honored by the region’s most progressive civil rights group….
CSHL conference lands a bull’s eye on Lyme detection
By GREGORY ZELLER // A gaggle of academic, public health and commercial-healthcare specialists gathered under Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s mighty banner have published findings that could rewrite the book on…