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UB Alert: Emergency text, e-mail messages. Sign up > Yong-Kyu YK Yoons investigations into the micro- and nano-worlds have caught the attention of funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation, which has recognized him with two major grants totaling $600,000.

Creamy without cranking

You know that summer rhyme about how we all scream for ice cream?

ON INVESTING: Order has been restored in the Universe or has it?

Watching stage 11 of the 20 stage Tour de France bicycle race on TV at home early on the morning of July 15, I was somewhat amused to hear a commentator mention that order has been restored to the universe.

Lee Davenport tells his untold WWII story of the St.-Lo Breakout

Greenwich resident Lee Davenport 's story begins almost exactly 66 years ago, soon after July 20, 1944, a few weeks after the D-Day invasion, when Davenport, as a civilian scientist, was flown from England to Normandy on orders of General Dwight D. Eisenhower . Davenport was on a secret mission to test out a radar targeting system he had "cobbled together" that would direct the dive bombers of ...

Scientists invent invisibility cloak made of glass

Researchers at Michigan Tech University have found a way of capturing infrared light and bending it around an object, making it invisible to the naked eye.

The Candwich-do American spirit

The Candwich-do American spirit By BARRY KAUFMAN First, Ive discovered a load of tasty new recipes that utilize the leftover cheese stuck to pizza boxes. Second, its encouraged creative and possibly deranged inventors across the country to blow the dust off their crazy ideas and try to make a buck selling them.