One of the pleasures of being a (very) minor public figure associated with science is that sometimes I hear from people who have "disproved" major findings. In my earlier, more self-assured days I called these folks "cranks" - as in "Mathematical Cranks," the...

The Templeton Prize is one of the major prizes in science - $1.4 million in prize money helps - but it's a bit of an oddball because it emphasizes the non-quantifiable part of human knowledge. It was awarded today to Marcelo Gleiser, a cosmologist at Dartmouth. The...

Now that in-law apartments are no longer outlawed, New Hampshire towns are working on the details of what is turning out to be a small, if intriguing, part of the region’s housing mix. “We’ve had maybe four of them, if that,” said Stephanie Giovannucci, interim Town...

Voters were missing something when they showed up at the polls Tuesday in the town of Milford: The alphabet. For the first time in memory the polling stations in the middle school gymnasium lacked signs directing voters to a specific clerk depending on the first...

One of the most surprising big-picture changes that has taken place during my life is the way biology has taken the mantel of “most interesting scientific field” from physics. When I was a kid, all the little geeks wanted to become physicists. Physics had relativity...

If you were looking to set up a geek trifecta, you could do worse than to combine 3D printing, drones and a mission to Mars. Erika Rydberg, a Concord resident and 3D printing expert with the interesting job title of Digital Creation Technologist at Plymouth State...