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The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant to Sacred Heart University’s Bee Health and Ecology Objective, or Bee-HERO, to help six undergraduate students research bees in Sweden.
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Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a new kind of antimatter nucleus, which could help explain why almost everything in the universe is made of matter —instead of antimatter.
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U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) wants to increase federal funding to research Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses.
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Why did it have to be snakes? Because evolution puts snakes on a plain advantage, according to a new study co-authored by a Stony Brook University researcher.
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Energy companies Ørsted and Eversource, developers of Connecticut's first offshore wind farm, will spend $1.25 million on the project with UConn, which will be based at their Avery Point campus.
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Prehistoric relatives of humans may have buried their dead and written symbols on cave walls — long before the oldest known human burials. That’s according to new findings presented at a conference at Stony Brook University.
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Long Island volunteers will have their blood samples tested for 1,4-dioxane as part of a new study. The goal is to see if they were exposed to the toxic chemical, aside from drinking water.
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Stony Brook University will anchor a new $150 million climate research and training center located on Governors Island in New York City Harbor.
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U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) announced millions of dollars in federal funding for research into tick-borne diseases. Cases have more than doubled in the last 10 years across the Northeast.
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Nine research projects studying the Long Island Sound have received funding from the Connecticut and New York Sea Grant programs and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Long Island Sound Study Research Grant Program.