For SBU scientists, running starts on research funding
By GREGORY ZELLER // Throw another $700,000 onto the pile of generous – and smart, according to the ROI – investments made by Stony Brook University’s Office of the Vice…
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Spotting opioid overdoses before they happen, with AI
By GREGORY ZELLER // A Stony Brook University computer professor with an AI algorithm that detects substance abuse through language has refocused the impressive prediction technology on opioids – with…
No. 772: Begorrah, another busy workweek in the books – dinosaurs, Nat King Cole and saints preserve us!
Erin go bragh: Welcome to Friday, lasses and lads, and not just any Friday but March 17 – St. Patrick’s Day, of course, the annual wearing of the green…
Something for all tastes at FuzeHub food-bev forum
By GREGORY ZELLER // The future of New York State’s food and beverage industries spiced up FuzeHub’s latest manufacturing forum, held Thursday at Farmingdale State College. Growth of the Urban…
Return to form (in various forms) at CEWIT hackathon
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology would like to kindly dispel the myth that hackers, programmers and other computer experts are antisocial. In…
No. 770: On school threats, inventive presidents and titanic trash troubles, with a (last-time?) time change
That time again: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, and not just any Friday but the last before we switch the clocks from Standard Time forward to Daylight Savings Time…
Kelp help: $75K backs 10,000-year-old science project
By GREGORY ZELLER // A women-led nonprofit kelp farm is leveraging 10,000 years of knowledge to create 21st Century nitrogen-pollution solutions. Shinnecock Kelp Farmers, a 501(c)3 organization claiming the mantle…
As AI evolves, the battle for control begins in court
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // In a haunting scene from 1968’s iconic “2001: A Space Odyssey,” sentient computer HAL 9000 turns off two astronauts’ life-support systems so it can assume…
No. 767: On prized pigs, radioactive serendipity and the very first Avenger, with composting AND compoting
Some snowstorm: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we shake off Tuesday’s “significant” snowfall (about four quick-melting inches across Long Island, for those keeping score) and plow through another…
German VCs stake distinguished prof’s anti-cancer ace
By GREGORY ZELLER // German venture capitalists have locked and loaded a Stony Brook University spinoff’s next-generation weapon against malignant tumors. Munich-based VC firm TVM Capital Life Science – whose…
Teaching Master Teachers a thing or two at the AERTC
By GREGORY ZELLER // A stronghold of higher-ed science is sharing its genius with Long Island’s littlest learners, with the help of some educational masters. A dozen representatives of the…
Albany accelerates future of DNA manufacturing, again
By GREGORY ZELLER // A modest state investment will help push a Long Island bioscience pioneer toward the brink of a DNA-manufacturing revolution. Through its Excelsior Jobs Program and chunky…
No. 761: Setting records with breakthrough burn tech, new vets, Walt D. and molasses bars, if you want
On the records: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as the fantastic innovation economy and the Winter That Winter Forgot, with its record-setting warmth here on Long Island, roll on….
No. 758: In which librarians, NatGeo and NutraSweet score – and Jones Beach flexes tri-athletic muscles
Morning line: And down the stretch we come, dear readers! It’s Friday out there, and we’re racing neck-and-neck toward the finish line of another exciting workweek. It’s a fast…
SoMAS study: Peconic Bay die-off is only the beginning
By GREGORY ZELLER // Stony Brook University scientists are sounding alarms over an evolving fisheries crisis – a global concern already decimating economically critical industries in Long Island waters. A…