Study Reveals Need for Better Modeling of Weather Systems for Climate Prediction

A team of researchers discovered persistent dry and warm biases in the central U.S. that was caused by poor modeling of atmospheric convective systems Their findings call for better calculations with global climate models.
11-Oct-2017 4:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

"Meeting of the Minds" Tackle Stroke

Stony Brook Medicine's eighth annual Meeting of the Minds: Stroke Symposium will be held on Friday, October 20, at the Charles B. Wang Center from 8 am to 12:30 pm.
11-Oct-2017 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Year-to-Year Volatility of Penguin Population Requires New Approaches to Track Marine Health

A study using data on Adélie penguin populations over the last 35 years has found that only a small fraction of year-to-year changes in Adélie penguin populations can be attributed to measureable factors such as changes in sea ice.
11-Oct-2017 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

E-Mental Health Tool May Be Key for Astronauts to Cope with Anxiety, Depression in Space

A clinical trial of an innovative e-mental health tool led by a Stony Brook University psychiatry professor to help address stress, anxiety and/or depression will begin on September 18. The trial is designed to inform the delivery of mental health...
12-Sep-2017 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

New Computational Model of Chemical Building Blocks May Help Explain the Origins of Life

A research team from Stony Brook University and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developed a computational model explaining how certain molecules fold and bind together to grow and evolve from chemistry to biology.
23-Aug-2017 2:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Research Center Established to Explore the Least Understood and Strongest Force Behind Visible Matter

Science can explain only a small portion of the matter that makes up the universe, from the earth we walk on to the stars we see at night. Stony Brook University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have...
22-Aug-2017 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

New 13 Million-Year-Old Infant Skull Sheds Light on Ape Ancestry

The discovery in Kenya of a remarkably complete fossil ape skull reveals what the common ancestor of all living apes and humans may have looked like. The find, announced in the scientific journal Nature on August 10th, belongs to an infant that...
7-Aug-2017 1:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Stony Brook Welcomes Southampton Hospital to its System

Stony Brook University welcomed Southampton Hospital, hereafter known as Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, as a member of the Stony Brook Medicine health system, announced Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, President, and Ken Kaushansky, MD, Senior Vice...
1-Aug-2017 2:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites