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Catalyst Renders Nerve Agents Harmless

A team of scientists including researchers at Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory has studied a catalyst that decomposes nerve agents, eliminating their harmful and lethal effects. The research was...

April 22, 2019

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Alumni Hottest Stories Medicine and Research Research Stony Brook Matters Sustainability

‘Electron Shuttle’ Protein Offers New Strategy for Tailoring Plant Products

Scientists studying plant cell walls—structural supports that help plants overcome the downward pull of gravity—have discovered mechanistic details of a protein involved in the assembly of lignin, a key cell-wall...

April 9, 2019

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Research Team Builds Quantum Network with Long-Distance Entanglement

Scientists from Stony Brook University, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, and DOE’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) are collaborating on an experiment that puts U.S. quantum...

April 8, 2019

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High-Performance Computing is Music to her Ears

“Get involved in research as early as you can,” advises URECA Researcher of the Month Nicole Soder ’19.”Just keep looking until you find the right match.” Soder, an Applied Mathematics and...

April 1, 2019

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Illuminating Water Filtration

For the first time, a team of researchers from Stony Brook University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have revealed the molecular structure of membranes used in reverse osmosis...

March 28, 2019

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Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory Host Quantum Information Science Workshop

On February 25, 2019, Stony Brook University, in collaboration with Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), hosted a workshop that brought together more than 200 attendees interested in Quantum Information Science and...

March 20, 2019

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Alumni Spotlight Story Medicine and Research Research Stony Brook Matters

BNL Experiment Sheds Light on Proton Spin Puzzle

New data from the STAR experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory‘s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) add detail—and complexity—to an intriguing puzzle that scientists have been seeking to solve: how the...

March 15, 2019

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Karen Chen-Wiegart Highlights SBU Research at Chancellor’s SOTUS Address

Karen Chen-Wiegart of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, with a Joint Appointment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, represented Stony Brook University at the 2019...

March 5, 2019

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Quantum Immersion Workshop to Showcase Research

The goal of the Quantum Immersion Workshop — held on Monday, February 25, from 8 am to 5 pm in the Charles B. Wang Center — is to build a Quantum Information Science (QIS) community of researchers at Stony Brook...

February 14, 2019

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Scanning electron microscopy image of the micro-structure of albite prior to the rapid compression experiments. The image spans about 0.036 mm. Credit: Stony Brook University, Lars Ehm

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SBU Geoscientist Leads Team Simulating Meteorite Impacts in the Lab

A U.S.-German research team led by Stony Brook’s Lars Ehm and including other members of the Department of Geosciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at Stony Brook University has simulated meteorite impacts...

February 6, 2019

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Alumni Spotlight Story Faculty/Staff Medicine and Research Research Stony Brook Matters

Discovery Opens the Possibility of Using Sunlight to Turn a Greenhouse Gas into Fuel

A team of scientists has discovered a single-site, visible-light-activated catalyst that converts carbon dioxide (CO2) into “building block” molecules that could be used for creating useful chemicals. The...

November 26, 2018

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Bingjie Zhang Wins Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship

Stony Brook University Student Bingjie Zhang is the recipient of the 14th annual Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship. The Asian Pacific American Association (APAA) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory...

October 10, 2018

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Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Rainer Weiss to Discuss Gravitational Waves at Stony Brook Southampton

Imagine a boat sailing across a pond. As it moves, ripples disturb the water. The bigger and faster the boat, the greater the ripples, and the more the water is disturbed, along with any objects within. If the pond is...

September 25, 2018

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Alumni Spotlight Story Medicine and Research Research Stony Brook Matters

Scientists Take Important Step Toward Understanding Higgs Boson Decay

The Large Hadron Collider collaborations ATLAS and CMS jointly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson transforming into bottom quarks as it decays. This is predicted to be the most common way for Higgs bosons to...

August 28, 2018

5 min read

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BNL-Stony Brook Joint Outreach Exposes Young Women to Nanoscience

Opportunities to experience what scientists do were few and far between for Shruti Sharma while growing up in India. This lack of early exposure to hands-on science activities contributed to Sharma—now a fifth-year PhD...

July 2, 2018

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Stony Brook Alum Thrives at Brookhaven National Laboratory

When Daniel Cacace ’15 first came to visit the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory during Summer Sundays as a young boy, he already felt there was something special about the Lab that...

June 13, 2018

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Knapp Chair Esther Sans Takeuchi Wins European Inventor Award for Her Compact Batteries

One of the world’s leading energy storage researchers, Stony Brook University Distinguished Professor Esther Sans Takeuchi has won the 2018 European Inventor Award in the category “Non-EPO countries.” The European...

June 7, 2018

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From Face Recognition to Phase Recognition: Neural Network Captures Atomic-Scale Rearrangements

If you want to understand how a material changes from one atomic-level configuration to another, it’s not enough to capture snapshots of before-and-after structures. It’d be better to track details of the transition as...

June 4, 2018

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Catalyst Renders Nerve Agents Harmless

‘Electron Shuttle’ Protein Offers New Strategy for Tailoring Plant Products

Research Team Builds Quantum Network with Long-Distance Entanglement

High-Performance Computing is Music to her Ears

Illuminating Water Filtration

Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory Host Quantum Information Science Workshop

BNL Experiment Sheds Light on Proton Spin Puzzle

Karen Chen-Wiegart Highlights SBU Research at Chancellor’s SOTUS Address

Quantum Immersion Workshop to Showcase Research

SBU Geoscientist Leads Team Simulating Meteorite Impacts in the Lab

Discovery Opens the Possibility of Using Sunlight to Turn a Greenhouse Gas into Fuel

Bingjie Zhang Wins Mow Shiah Lin Scholarship

Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Rainer Weiss to Discuss Gravitational Waves at Stony Brook Southampton

Scientists Take Important Step Toward Understanding Higgs Boson Decay

BNL-Stony Brook Joint Outreach Exposes Young Women to Nanoscience

Stony Brook Alum Thrives at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Knapp Chair Esther Sans Takeuchi Wins European Inventor Award for Her Compact Batteries

From Face Recognition to Phase Recognition: Neural Network Captures Atomic-Scale Rearrangements

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