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Newswise: Stony Brook University Researchers Among Those Awarded 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Released: 10-Apr-2025 8:25 PM EDT
Stony Brook University Researchers Among Those Awarded 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
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Members of the Stony Brook University Department of Physics and Astronomy were recently among the recipients of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in recognition of their experimental collaborations with CERN’s (“Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire” or “European Organization for Nuclear Research”) Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The Prize – popularly known as the “Oscars® of Science” – was created to celebrate the wonders of the scientific age by founding sponsors Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Julia and Yuri Milner, and Anne Wojcicki.

Released: 8-Apr-2025 7:00 PM EDT
Stony Brook Southampton Presents The Jazz Loft @ Southampton Concert Series Beginning in April
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Stony Brook Southampton, in collaboration with The Jazz Loft, will present The Jazz Loft @ Southampton Concert Series, a spring-summer lineup of five concerts featuring world-class jazz musicians. The series will include acclaimed artists including recent Grammy recipients, Dan Pugach and Nicole Zuraitis.

Newswise: Clearest and Most Precise Images of the Universe’s Infancy Revealed
Released: 18-Mar-2025 8:20 PM EDT
Clearest and Most Precise Images of the Universe’s Infancy Revealed
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Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced new images that are the clearest yet of the universe’s infancy – the earliest cosmic time accessible; the images are of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation that was visible only 380,000 years after the Big Bang.

Newswise: Scientists Identify Critical
Released: 5-Mar-2025 10:40 AM EST
Scientists Identify Critical "Midlife Window" for Preventing Age-Related Brain Decline
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A landmark study published in PNAS has unveiled that brain aging follows a distinct yet nonlinear trajectory with critical transition points. The research offers new insights into when interventions to prevent cognitive decline might be most effective.

Newswise: Can Signals in the Brain Determine an Attraction to Sweet Foods?
Released: 10-Feb-2025 6:15 PM EST
Can Signals in the Brain Determine an Attraction to Sweet Foods?
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Researchers at Stony Brook University used genetic manipulation in a laboratory brain model to demonstrate that neurosteroids can reduce the sensitivity and preference for sweet tastes when elevated within the gustatory cortex. Their findings are published in Current Biology.

Newswise: Study Provides Evidence of Amyloidosis in the Brains of Some WTC Responders
Released: 23-Jan-2025 8:15 PM EST
Study Provides Evidence of Amyloidosis in the Brains of Some WTC Responders
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The results of a new brain imaging study led by researchers at Stony Brook Medicine indicates a link between World Trade Center (WTC) exposure duration and the presence of amyloid in the brain. The findings are published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.

Newswise: When Human Ancestors Began Eating Meat Remains a Mystery
Released: 22-Jan-2025 5:30 PM EST
When Human Ancestors Began Eating Meat Remains a Mystery
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An international team of researchers including Dominic Stratford, PhD, of Stony Brook University and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, have discovered that an ancient human ancestor found in deposits at the Sterkfontein Caves, Australopithecus, which lived more than three million years ago in South Africa, primarily ate plant-based foods. The finding, published in the journal Science, stems from an analysis of tooth enamel from seven Australopithecus fossils and is significant because the emergence of meat eating is thought to be a key driver of a large increase in brain size seen in later hominins.

Newswise: Multiple Covid Infections Associated with Long Covid
Released: 15-Jan-2025 8:55 PM EST
Multiple Covid Infections Associated with Long Covid
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A new study that identified 475 patients with post-acute sequelae of Covid-19 (PASC), or Long Covid, revealed that nearly 85 percent (403) of these patients had multiple Covid-19 infections over the course of a four-year period.

Newswise: Study Reveals Kidney Disease Compromises Survival of Infection-Fighting Cells
Released: 9-Jan-2025 9:15 AM EST
Study Reveals Kidney Disease Compromises Survival of Infection-Fighting Cells
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A new study led by Stony Brook Medicine demonstrates that advanced kidney disease compromises the survival of B cells, a type of infection-fighting white blood cell that produces antibodies to kill microbes, and thus significantly reduces the immune response to the influenza virus.

Newswise: Stony Brook University PhD Student  Florence Aghomo Wins the Young Women in Conservation Biology Award from the Society for Conservation Biology Africa Region
Released: 23-Dec-2024 5:35 PM EST
Stony Brook University PhD Student Florence Aghomo Wins the Young Women in Conservation Biology Award from the Society for Conservation Biology Africa Region
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Stony Brook University doctoral student Florence Aghomo won the Young Women in Conservation Biology (YWCB) Award from the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) Africa Region. Aghomo is a doctoral student in the Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences (IDPAS) and a member of the Institute for the Conservation of Tropical Environments (ICTE) under the supervision of State University of New York (SUNY) and Stony Brook Distinguished Service Professor Patricia C. Wright.

Newswise: Grandma is “Still There”
Released: 6-Dec-2024 1:25 PM EST
Grandma is “Still There”
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It's a challenge to celebrate the holiday season with loved ones who have dementia. But Stephen Post, PhD, a bioethicist, has a message that could change your focus when visiting these loved ones this season: There are powerful lucid moments that occur with the deeply forgetful. Hold onto them. It’s worth the time.

Newswise: Study Uncovers Molecular Mechanisms During Shrew’s Brain Changes
Released: 21-Nov-2024 11:45 AM EST
Study Uncovers Molecular Mechanisms During Shrew’s Brain Changes
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New research led by William R. Thomas, PhD, with Professor Liliana M. Dávalos, PhD, in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University, shows how the Eurasian common shrew (Sorex araneus) changes its brain and bodily size throughout the year. The study, published online in eLife, reveals how changes in gene expression enable these small mammals to shrink their brain in winter and regrow it in spring, defying the typical mammalian pattern where organ size does not change. Their findings offer genetic clues to neurological and metabolic health in mammals.

Newswise: Using Matter Waves, Scientists Unveil Novel Collective Behaviors in Quantum Optics
Released: 21-Nov-2024 9:30 AM EST
Using Matter Waves, Scientists Unveil Novel Collective Behaviors in Quantum Optics
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A Stony Brook University research team has uncovered a novel regime, or set of conditions within a system, for cooperative radiative phenomena, casting new light on a 70-year-old problem in quantum optics.

Newswise: Study Identifies Pregnant Women at Risk for Substance Use
Released: 18-Nov-2024 3:20 PM EST
Study Identifies Pregnant Women at Risk for Substance Use
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A new study published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine conducted by a team of Stony Brook University researchers used the PROMOTE Prenatal Screener – a unique screening tool for use during pregnancy – to pinpoint vulnerabilities for substance use.

Newswise: Tourist Photos Can Help Gauge Ecological Changes in Antarctica
Released: 7-Nov-2024 10:10 AM EST
Tourist Photos Can Help Gauge Ecological Changes in Antarctica
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A Stony Brook University-led research team has created a computerized method in which photos of penguins in Antarctica taken by tourists can be analyzed by the technique to decipher the location of the photo, thereby indicating the location of penguins over time and providing a clue as to what is causing changes in their abundance and distribution.

Newswise: Brain Imaging of Neuromelanin May be Key to Understanding Extensive Substance Use
Released: 16-Oct-2024 1:00 PM EDT
Brain Imaging of Neuromelanin May be Key to Understanding Extensive Substance Use
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A study that used a specialized type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), named neuromelanin-sensitive MRI, showed that this type of MRI signal was increased in regions of the midbrain in young adults ages 20 to 24 who had an extensive alcohol and drug use history. The findings are published early online in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

Newswise: Study Shows Use of a Gene Could Halt Diabetic Kidney Disease
Released: 9-Oct-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Study Shows Use of a Gene Could Halt Diabetic Kidney Disease
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New research by Stony Brook Medicine nephrology specialists that centers on targeting key cellular signaling between two types of kidney cells, and inducing a certain gene within those processes, may help prevent or reduce the progression of diabetic kidney disease (DKD), the leading cause of chronic kidney disease worldwide.



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