Stony Brook University

A new albertosaurine from the Oldman Formation, Alberta, Canada, illuminates ambiguity between albertosaurine and tyrannosaurine characteristics

Tyrannosaurid species have often been considered to have high longevity and low diversity relative to contemporaneous megaherbivores. Recent chronospecies assertions around tyrannosaurid lineage evolution have reinforced this idea. An albertosaurine, Tromerosaurus solumons, from...

Linking social attention to reproductive state and future reproduction in female monkeys

Abstract The demands of complex social life are thought to drive the evolution of cognition in primates. One important approach to testing this hypothesis is to assess if variation in psychological processes impacts an individual’s fitness outcomes, but this can be challenging in...

Cool‐Water Dolphins Have Larger Appendages Than Warm‐Water Dolphins

ABSTRACT Aim Endothermic marine mammals face significant thermoregulatory challenges due to heat loss in the highly conductive marine environment. Allen's rule states that endothermic animals in cold environments have smaller appendages than those in warmer environments. While bo...

Enhancing electromagnetic calorimeter signal reconstruction with machine learning-based noise discrimination

Abstract Calorimeters operating in high-radiation environments are susceptible to damage, leading to increased noise that can significantly degrade energy resolution. A common way to mitigate noise is to apply a higher energy threshold on the calorimeter cells, typically set a fe...

QCD for electroweak precision measurements: Foundations

The couplings of the strong to electroweak sectors of the Standard Model enable the exploration of each using our growing knowledge of the other. In this review, we will follow the sweep of history. Starting with QED as a precision theory, deep inelastic scattering served as a ga...

Nuclear recoil Migdal effect in liquid xenon dark matter experiments

The Migdal effect predicts that a nuclear recoil (NR) can be accompanied by detectable atomic ionization or excitation signals, even at the low energies expected from interactions of sub-GeV dark matter particles with atomic nuclei. Liquid xenon-based dark matter experiments have...

One-pot chemical vapor deposition (OP-CVD) of period-4 transition metal oxide catalysts supported on CeO2: A comparative study for CO Oxidation

Ceria-supported catalysts have been used in catalysis, however, facile synthesis routes are a necessity. Herein, we develop transition metal oxide catalysts (TMO x ) over CeO 2 support via one-pot chemical vapor deposition (OP-CVD), where period 4 TM: Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu were cons...

Explaining Science Knowledge Gaps on Social Media: Basic Science Knowledge and Intentional Versus Incidental Exposure

This study examined whether basic science knowledge helps explain education-based gaps in domain-specific science knowledge and whether intentional and incidental exposure on social media condition those gaps. A national survey of American adults focused on two domains: climate c...

A design approach for bitopic kinase inhibitors

Abstract Traditional kinase inhibitors face a trade-off between potency and selectivity because their affinity depends on limited molecular interactions in a single highly conserved binding site. Bitopic inhibitors overcome this limitation by engaging multiple sites on the same t...

Cloud-type-dependent mixed-phase cloud climatology from CloudSat/CALIPSO measurements

Mixed-phase clouds play a critical role in Earth's radiation budget but remain a major source of uncertainty in climate models. Existing satellite climatologies mostly describe mixed-phase clouds in aggregate, without separating cloud types that differ in dynamics, vertical struc...

Preemptive mechanical circulatory support in ventricular tachycardia ablation: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract Background The benefit of preemptive mechanical circulatory support (MCS) for ventricular tachycardia (VT) ablation remains unclear. This meta-analysis compared the efficacy and safety of preemptive MCS to standard care for VT ablation. Methods An unrestricted literature...

Illuminating the Lifecycle of Functional Materials Through Multimodal Synchrotron X-Ray Characterization: From Synthesis to Operation and Degradation

Driven by the global demand toward sustainable energy systems, the green transformation of energy materials has become a central focus in modern material science across the global economy [1–5]. Th...

Pose Reproduction, Cross Docking, Database Enrichment, and Reverse Docking Benchmarks for DOCK6, Vina, and AutoDock 4 with Emphasis on Approved Drugs

Abstract High-quality test sets to evaluate docking software help the community understand strengths and weaknesses of different methods and programs. In this work, we introduce SB2025, a calculation-ready set of 1,244 protein-ligand complexes derived from the PDB, curated using...

MOF-Derived Nitrogen-Doped Carbon-Supported Ordered Intermetallic PtNiCo Nanoparticles for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Abstract Metal−organic frameworks (MOFs) have gained attention as promising catalyst supports due to their tunable structures, high surface areas, and excellent thermal stability. In this work, ZIF-67, a cobalt-based MOF, is employed as a precursor to synthesize a nitrogen-doped...

A high-resolution, multi-method palaeoenvironmental record from pan sediments at Maralaleng Pan, southern Kalahari basin

Human traces in semi-arid environments such as the Kalahari have been linked to the presence of water in the landscape. However, low organic preservation and an uneven distribution of studied sites have resulted in a gap in the knowledge of the environmental conditions under whic...

Guaranteed Income and the Financial Well-Being of Black Women: Evidence from the In Her Hands Pilot

Abstract This study examines the impact of guaranteed income (GI) on financial well-being through a U.S. pilot program targeting low-income Black women. Using longitudinal survey data from the In Her Hands (IHH) pilot in Georgia, we examine how GI influences recipients’ credit he...

The chromosomal genome sequence of the boulder star coral, Orbicella franksi (Gregory, 1895) (Scleractinia: Merulinidae)

We present a genome assembly from a specimen of Orbicella franksi (boulder star coral; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Scleractinia; Merulinidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 496.97 megabases. Most of the assembly (95.24%) is scaffolded into 15 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The...

High-grade astrocytoma with piloid features: a clinical and genomic analysis of prognostic factors using a large cohort

BACKGROUND: High-grade astrocytoma with piloid features (HGAP) is a recently defined tumor type that is not well-understood. Prognostic factors of clinical outcomes are not well-established. METHODS: Methylation profiling was performed on tumor samples, many at the National Cance...

Microtidal wetland losses and hydrologic stressors as sea level rise accelerates in the Gulf of Mexico: running with Alice

Abstract Global sea level rise (SLR) is a widely appreciated threat to coastal wetlands. Modeled estimates of SLR thresholds beyond which coastal wetlands convert to open water suggest that landscape scale estimates of wetland loss vary with geomorphic setting, upland barriers to...

Mechanistic insights into HipA‐mediated bacterial persistence: Role of initial cellular states and toxin expression kinetics

Abstract Persistent bacteria subpopulations showing multidrug tolerance pose significant challenges to antibiotic therapy. While the HipBA toxin–antitoxin (TA) system is known to play a role in persister formation, existing studies predominantly focus on its kinase activity and i...