Research

Connecticut is spending $35 million to backstop some of the recent federal funding cuts to academic research programs at UConn and UConn Health.

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.

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.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) wants to increase federal funding to research Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Stony Brook University will anchor a new $150 million climate research and training center located on Governors Island in New York City Harbor.

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.