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Fifty years after scientists first posed a question about protein folding, the search for answers has led to the creation of a full-fledged field of research that led to major advances in supercomputers, new materials and drug discovery, and shaped our understanding of the basic processes of life, including so-called "protein-folding diseases" such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and type II diabetes.

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In the first-ever experiment of its kind, researchers have demonstrated that clean energy hydrogen can be produced from water splitting by using very small metal particles that are exposed to sunlight. In the article, “Outstanding activity of sub-nm Au clusters for photocatalytic hydrogen production,” published in the journal Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Alexander Orlov, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at Stony Brook University, and his colleagues from Stony Brook and Brookhaven National Laboratory, found that the use of gold particles smaller than one nanometer resulted in greater hydrogen production than other co-catalysts tested.

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Stony Brook University unveiled its latest engineering feat, a 1.5 billion pixel Reality Deck, at a demonstration held at the University’s Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT) on November 15. The Reality Deck, a 416 screen super-high resolution virtual reality four-walled surround-view theater, is the largest resolution immersive display ever built driven by a graphic supercomputer. Its purpose and primary design principle is to enable scientists, engineers and physicians to tackle modern-age problems that require the visualization of vast amounts of data.

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Harvester could save millions of dollars in energy costs while cutting CO2 emissions.

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Researchers and faculty will demonstrate, for the first time, the capabilities of Stony Brook’s newest engineering feat, a one-of-a-kind 416-screen immersive visualization facility that rivals the performance of modern supercomputers.

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Artem R. Oganov, PhD, finds novel compounds in search for the keys to the paradox of missing xenon in Earth’s atmosphere; findings may pave the way for new advances in the theory of chemical bonding.

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Newborn neurons in the adult hippocampus are critical for memory retrieval, according to a study by Stony Brook University researchers to be published in the November 11 advanced online edition of Nature Neuroscience.

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Most species loss in Bahamas and Greater Antilles explained by loss of land area.

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Fisheries expert and executive director of Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University presents assessment of current fisheries management in the journal Science.

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In a Perspectives article, “The Risks of Overfishing,” published in the October 26 issue of the journal Science, Dr. Ellen K. Pikitch, executive director of the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science and professor at Stony Brook University, cautions against continuing traditional fisheries management.

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University remains among nation’s leaders in developing researchers of the future.

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Students at Hong Kong University are now learning how to judge the reliability of news and information.

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Stony Brook Medicine’s Neurosciences Institute brings together leaders to present the latest advances in research and clinical care for neurodegenerative disorders, neuropsychiatric disorders, and neuro-ophthalmology.

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A new study, published online today in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, reviewed 136 case studies to determine the underlying causes of why many populations have gone extinct due to changing climate.

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Reports of declining ice coverage and drowning polar bears in the Arctic illustrate dramatic ecosystem responses to global climate change in Earth’s polar regions. But in this first-ever account of a long-term project in the southern Caribbean, a Stony Brook professor and his colleagues report in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. that tropical ecosystems are also affected by global climatic trends - and with accompanying economic impacts.

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Arthur Plowden celebrates his triumphant ‘bridge to transplant’ story.

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Award recognizes creative research and experimental tenacity in the natural sciences.

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Transformative solution to result in greater speed, efficiency of disk storage.

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Device uses nanotechnology to detect and measure nitric oxide in breath.

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Closed 11 percent graduation-rate gap between Hispanic, white students.

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A new study, published online in Biology Letters on September 19, has utilized a massive molecular dataset to reconstruct the evolutionary history of lizards and snakes. The results reveal a surprising finding about the evolution of snakes: that most snakes we see living on the surface today arose from ancestors that lived underground.

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Participated in Summer Institute designed to enhance undergraduate biology education

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A just-published study provides a first-time analysis of the value of forage fish, which are small, schooling species such as sardines, herring, and anchovies. Three kinds of contributions of forage fish were estimated: as direct catch, as food for other commercially important fish, and as an important link in the food web in marine ecosystems.

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ll tadpoles grow into frogs, but not all frogs start out as tadpoles, reveals a new study on 720 species of frogs to be published in the journal Evolution. The study, “Phylogenetic analyses reveal unexpected patterns in the evolution of reproductive modes in frogs,” led by John J. Wiens, an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University, and colleagues Ivan Gomez-Mestra from the Doñana Biological Station in Seville, Spain, and R. Alexander Pyron from George Washington University, uncovers the surprising evolution of life cycles in frogs.

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Esther Sans Takeuchi, a SUNY Distinguished Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stony Brook University, as well as the Chief Scientist in Brookhaven National Laboratory's Global and Regional Solutions Directorate, has been selected as the 2013 recipient of the E.V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry from the American Chemical Society.

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Significant declines in breeding chinstrap penguins in the vastly warming Antarctic Peninsula.

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Iwao Ojima and Nancy Goroff cited as pioneers in their respective fields whose work has had broad practical applications.

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Team examines why nectar feeding evolved twice in Leaf-Nosed bats.

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High-performance computing expert Robert Harrison named founding director.

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Study recommends consideration of additional regulations to protect drinking water and encourages future research efforts into disposal of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing.

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Research that used mitochondrial DNA-based testing to compare the extent of fraudulent labeling of black caviar purchased before and after international protection shows conservation benefits.

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Prelude to new RHIC / LHC findings to be presented at Quark Matter 2012.

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Inspired by a European study, a team of Stony Brook University researchers looked into the potential impact of healthy human skin tissue (in vitro) being exposed to ultraviolet rays emitted from compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs. The results, “The Effects of UV Emission from CFL Exposure on Human Dermal Fibroblasts and Keratinocytes in Vitro,” were published in the June issue of the journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology.

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Legendary producer and indie film powerhouse Christine Vachon of Killer Films has joined the Stony Brook Southampton faculty, announced Associate Provost Robert Reeves, moving the vibrant and emerging campus a giant step closer to the goal of establishing a new, innovative graduate program in film.

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World-renowned primatologist, Dr. Patricia Wright, Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, the Madagascar Minister of Higher Education, Members of the Transitional Congress and Chief of the Region, officially inaugurated NamanaBe Hall (NamanaBe means “big friendship” in the Malagasy language), the new 15,000-square-foot building designed to enhance the conservation, research and community outreach capabilities of the Centre ValBio (CVB) research campus.

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Joshua Rest, an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University, has co-authored an article appearing in BMC Genomics, “Horizontal transfer of expressed genes in a parasitic flowering plant,” detailing the first evidence of substantial horizontal gene transfer from a host to the parasitic flowering plant Rafflesia cantleyi. Professor Rest was co-leader of the project along with Professor Charles Davis from Harvard University.

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Artem R. Oganov, PhD, built on earlier work on theoretical structure of “M-carbon”.

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Renowned War Correspondent, Long Island native killed last February while reporting in Syria.

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– Dr. Balaji Sitharaman, PhD, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University, and a team of researchers developed a new, highly efficacious, potentially safer and more cost effective nanoparticle-based MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) contrast agent for improved disease diagnosis and detection. The most recent findings are discussed in detail in his team’s research paper “Physicochemical characterization, and relaxometry studies of micro-graphite oxide, graphene nanoplatelets, and nanoribbons,” published in the June 7 edition of the journal PLoS ONE.

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Ken A. Dill and Eugene Feinberg recognized with highest faculty designation.

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Peter Tsantes, the treasurer of the New York chapter of the American Foundation for Greek Language and Culture (AFGLC), along with Despina, his wife, and their children Vasilios and Sophia, donated $100,000 to strengthen the Hellenic studies program at Stony Brook University. The gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar by the Simons Foundation Challenge Grant, providing a total impact of $200,000.

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Stony Brook University’s Long Island Clinical Center of Excellence (LI-CCE), which is part of the World Trade Center Health Program, has expanded to SUNY Downstate Medical Center. The new clinic site enables a dedicated team of healthcare professionals to care for thousands more non-FDNY 9/11 responders living or working in Brooklyn (Kings County). On May 14, an official opening celebration will take place at the satellite location to mark its opening.

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A team of researchers from the Stony Brook University Department of Physics & Astronomy along with colleagues from the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) in Spain, explain a puzzling water anomaly in a paper published in the May 9 edition of Physical Review Letters entitled, “Anomalous Nuclear Quantum Effects in Ice.” The work details an anomaly – a deviation from the common form – of water ice that has been largely neglected and never before explained.

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Interdisciplinary Center’s mission is to advance biology and medicine through discoveries in physics, mathematics and computational science.

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Stony Brook University will celebrate the dedication of the new home of the Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology.

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Robotic explorer has been sending back data and images from Mars for eight years, providing opportunities for Stony Brook faculty and students to collaborate on scientific discoveries.

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On Thursday, May 3, and Friday, May 4, freelance Mathematician Dr. Jeffrey Weeks will deliver three talks for the Della Pietra Lecture Series at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (SCGP) at Stony Brook University. The capstone talk of this series, “The Shape of Space,” will be held on Thursday, May 3 at 7 pm in the SCGP Main Auditorium, Room 103. Lectures are free and open to the public.

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Jeffrey Segal, PhD, to be inducted into one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies

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Stony Brook University has received a $2.5 million gift from Robert and Lisa Lourie to advance research and clinical care at the National Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Center at Stony Brook Long Island Children’s Hospital and to establish a new state-of-the-art imaging center at Stony Brook Medicine. The gift will be matched by the Simons Foundation Challenge Grant, providing a total impact of $5 million. The Pediatric MS Center will be renamed the Lourie Center for Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis.

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Can a paralyzed person with a tiny electrode array implanted in the brain operate a robotic arm simply by thinking? Find out on Monday, April 16 at 4:30 pm in the Staller Center at Stony Brook University when the Swartz Foundation Mind Brain Lecture Series presents guest lecturer John P. Donoghue, PhD, who will discuss BrainGate™, a groundbreaking human neural interface that is designed to restore useful functions for people with paralysis.