Stony Brook’s CEWIT Partners on U.S. Army Project to Improve Military Data Interoperability

Manoj Mahajan
Manoj Mahajan

Researchers at the State University of New York at Stony Brook are collaborating on a new U.S. Army-funded project aimed at improving how military command-and-control systems share and interpret data across platforms.

Scrolling for the Truth: Banerjee Builds AI Tool to Verify Scientific Claims on Social Media

Ritwik Banerjee

Stony Brook, NY, February 22, 2026 — Scroll through Instagram or X long enough, and you’ll see it — a reel insisting that “fruits are citrus, so you shouldn’t eat them with milk,” a thread warning “protein shakes wreck kidney function,” a carousel promising “this workout routine will fix your PCOS in 30 days.” Every third post seems to offer a health hack, often backed by a chart, a DOI link, and just enough scientific language to sound convincing.

But behind those posts is a tangle of dense scientific research that few people ever read.

How Much Does AI Really Understand: Stress-testing Neural Networks with 1,800 Language Patterns

Jeffrey Heinz

 

Jeffrey Heinz

Stony Brook, NY, February 13, 2026 — In his office lined with hand-drawn diagrams and alphabet-like symbols, Stony Brook researcher Jeffrey Heinz is trying to answer a deceptively simple question: How well, exactly, can today’s neural networks learn, and where do they fail?