A brown tide has emerged within some, but not all, of Long Island's south shore estuaries. Monitoring by the Gobler Laboratory in the Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences has revealed ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 12, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —In 2012, Nicholas Fisher a distinguished professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University and postdoctoral scholar Zosia Baumann, working with a colleague ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 03, 2013 3.3 / 5 (10) 66 |

Bed bugs now need to watch their step. Researchers at Stony Brook University have developed a safe, non-chemical resource that literally stops bed bugs in their tracks. This innovative new technology acts ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

May 31, 2013 4.9 / 5 (16) 0 |

(Phys.org) —A team of researchers led by Artem R. Oganov, a professor of theoretical crystallography in the Department of Geosciences, has made a startling prediction that challenges existing chemical models ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Apr 25, 2013 4.7 / 5 (9) 2 |

(Phys.org) —New research reveals that pure gold nanoparticles found in everyday items such as personal care products, as well as drug delivery, MRI contrast agents and solar cells can inhibit adipose (fat) ...

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Apr 18, 2013 4.3 / 5 (12) 5 |

(Phys.org)—An international team led by Xiang-Feng Zhou and Artem R. Oganov, PhD, theoretical crystallographers in the Department of Geosciences and Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University, ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

Dec 14, 2012 5 / 5 (6) 4 |

(Phys.org)—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, ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Nov 23, 2012 4.9 / 5 (8) 3 |

(Phys.org)—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 ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Nov 21, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 3 |

(Phys.org)—An international team led by Artem R. Oganov, PhD, a professor of theoretical crystallography in the Department of Geosciences and Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University, ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Nov 13, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 0 |

(Phys.org)—In a new study published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, researchers show that rising sea levels produced by deglaciation, or the melting of glaciers, caused the extinction of most bats i ...

Biology - Ecology

Nov 08, 2012 3 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org)—Climate change causes extinctions not only as a result of species intolerance to high temperature, but more commonly via a variety of related factors that alter a species' interactions with other ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 17, 2012 3.7 / 5 (3) 3 |

(Phys.org)—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 ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Oct 17, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)— 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 surp ...

Biology - Evolution

Sep 19, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 0

All 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.

Biology - Evolution

Sep 10, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 1

(Phys.org) -- A team of evolutionary biologists compared the anatomy and genes of bats to help solve a persistent question in evolution: Why do analyses of different features of an organism result in conflicting ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 20, 2012 4 / 5 (1) 0 |