Lightning in a bottle? Youth triathletes lead the way
By JEFFREY L. REYNOLDS // Eisenhower Park filled April 19 with dozens of determined kids racking bikes, pulling on swim caps and nervously gearing up for the annual Mini MightyMan…
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No. 746: On roller skates, ‘Paradise Lost’ and llamas – and the worst computer password you ever had
What the hectic: Well done, intrepid innovators – another workweek conquered, another weekend queued, and all that at the height of the hectic holiday season. With Friday upon us,…
Future female pilots wing it at 2019 Air Show preview
By GREGORY ZELLER // With female pilots set to soar high in this year’s Bethpage Air Show, nearly two dozen high school girls flew out in front of the Memorial…
LI manufacturer powers up Army battery production
By GREGORY ZELLER // A longtime Long Island manufacturer will step up production of “advanced military batteries” for the U.S. Army, in a big way. Commack-based energy solutions expert Bren-Tronics…
Applied DNA enlists with Army’s bio-warfare defenders
By GREGORY ZELLER // Applied DNA Sciences is in the Army now. Already under U.S. Department of Defense contract on a number of different projects, the Stony Brook-based biotech has…
Army exercises Comtech contract extension
The U.S. Army re-upped for another year of services from Melville’s Comtech Telecommunications Corp., exercising almost $20 million in contracts covering engineering and satellite communications and use of hush-hush Comtech…