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[stoh-nee] / ˈstoʊ ni /


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Zhu, the company’s chief executive, studied at China’s elite Tsinghua University and in New York at what is now called Stony Brook University.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

"For Nanotyrannus to be a juvenile T. rex, it would need to defy everything we know about vertebrate growth," explains James Napoli, an anatomist at Stony Brook University and co-author of the research.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025

The film score uses Fergus's track Stony Gate throughout, incorporating it into the main score composed by Howard Dressin.

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2025

“This trackway is particularly beautifully preserved,” says paleoanthropologist Louise Leakey of Stony Brook University and director of the Koobi Fora Research Project.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 27, 2024

It is called Stony Beach, because it used to be covered, painfully, by small stones.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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