Bundled up to protect from the cold weather, six screaming preschool children ran outside to look for sticks to build a tower. “I found something!” a young girl’s voice cried out from a wooded area. She held a plastic fork…
In the centuries preceding the advent of what is now considered “modern science,” the study of nature and the physical universe was known as “natural philosophy.” The name itself implies an intimate connection between the sciences and philosophy. It begs the question: At what point did the two disciplines diverge?
The neurodiversity movement asserts that neurological divergences such as autism, attention deficit disorder and dyslexia should be seen and respected as no different from any other human variation.
Elaine DiMasi has officially hung up her lab coat — forgoing her position as a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory to jump into the 2018 race for the congressional seat in New York’s 1st District. The 1st District, comprised by…
Zoya Vallari walked down the winding hall on the fourth floor of the Physics building and poked her head into a large classroom where two graduate students were chalking calculus problems on the board. “May I use this room for…
After falling out of a third story window, area man Timothy Brewer has reportedly seen his life changed forever. “Before the accident, I was a jack of all trades. I had no special talents. Then I fell out of a…
Last month on February 11th, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) announced that they had discovered gravitational waves (GWs). Using two arms, the pathways containing the vacuum chambers, at a distance of 2.5 miles each, the group had used laser…
Students and professors settled in their seats at the Tabler Black Box Theater as the sound of an upbeat jazz song by Duke Ellington filled the room. In celebration of Women’s History Month, women in STEM fields spoke about forgotten…
In addition to his teaching position, Stony Brook Professor Joel Hurowitz currently serves as a deputy principal investigator for the Planetary Instrument for X-Ray Lithochemistry in Pasadena, which will be launched as a part of the Mars 2020 rover mission.…