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Stony Brook University

Public research university in Stony Brook, New York, part of the SUNY system, known for strong programs in sciences and engineering.

Known aliases

  • State University of New York at Stony Brook
  • Stony Brook
  • SUNY Stony Brook

Current stories

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CT reconstruction of a crushed 'hell chicken' skull suggests a fruit-eating dinosaur

Stony Brook researchers rebuilt the first nearly complete caenagnathid skull and infer from its jaw that the 12-kilogram animal mashed soft fruit. The diet is inferred from one species, so it does not yet cover the wider toothless group.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
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Hype gap+8
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence50
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Nearly complete Gobi skeleton places zhelestid mammals among shrew-like zalambdalestoids

Researchers describing Tamirkhan balcarceli in Nature place zhelestids, long argued to be early placental relatives, among shrew-like zalambdalestoids. The Gobi skeleton suggests teeth alone misled the group's classification for nearly 40 years.

Publishers:sciencedaily.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives40
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

K261580 stretches ZBPro's cleared ECG window from 48 hours to 14 days

ZBeats' second FDA clearance this year moves ZBPro Diagnostic out of Holter-only labeling and into 14-day patch recordings. Adoption now turns on which recorders the software is cleared to read.

Publishers:runtimewire.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption15
Hype gap+25
Incentives70
Confidence55
investOne report1 publisher

Self-published genre fiction on Amazon added titles twice as fast as revenue

Two detection studies put machine-written text across large slices of Amazon's self-published shelf, and the sales figures underneath one of them show a market that grew in dollars while thinning out per title.

Publishers:fortune.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption55
Hype gap+20
Incentives60
Confidence45
scienceOne report1 publisher

A lighthouse on Long Island: the 161-mile quantum network grows a wireless hop

Brookhaven says its Quantum Lighthouse is the first permanent free-space optical link on the network. The 13-mile air hop is running; the 30-mile crossing to Yale is still pending.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption22
Hype gap+32
Incentives74
Confidence48
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A 21km air gap in New York's quantum testbed, and the wavelengths it buys

The open-air hop carried entangled pairs only at night, and each end needed a purpose-built rooftop terminal. What it buys is wavelengths that telecom fiber does not serve.

Reality

Evidence32
Adoption12
Hype gap+22
Incentives58
Confidence38
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Nebraska becomes ninth state with Heartland or Bourbon virus in its ticks, and there is still no...

Two tick-borne viruses with at least seven US deaths between them are moving with the lone star tick, and diagnosis depends on a hospital deciding to ship blood to a specialised lab.

Publishers:newscientist.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+12
Incentives34
Confidence54
scienceOne report1 publisher

STAR puts the proton's baryon number on a gluon junction, not on its three quarks

A Science paper from RHIC's STAR detector backs a 1996 proposal that a Y-shaped gluon junction carries baryon number. The collider stopped running in early 2026, so the dataset is closed.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives60
Confidence48
scienceOne report1 publisher

STAR puts the proton's baryon number on a gluon junction, not on its three quarks

Brookhaven's STAR collaboration reports in Science that baryon number rides on a Y-shaped gluon junction. The one-third-per-quark picture in the textbooks would have to go.

Publishers:sciencedaily.com

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+34
Incentives66
Confidence41