by David Brooks | Aug 26, 2015 | Blog
By Lori Wright, UNH News Service: Among birds, the line between species is often blurry. Some closely related species interbreed where their ranges overlap, producing hybrid offspring that can backcross with either parent species, until a whole population of...
by David Brooks | Aug 25, 2015 | Blog
Science on Tap, the monthly science cafe in Manchester run by the SEE Science Museum, is moving. Its Sept. 8 session, titled “Humans and Space: Is Mars in the Future?” will be at the Foundry Restaurant, 50 Commercial St. Panelists are: Chris Carberry: the...
by David Brooks | Aug 25, 2015 | Blog
On Aug. 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds first announced Linux. Penguins have never been the same since. I got the above license plate when doing one of many stories I have written about Jon “maddog” Hall of Amherst, NH. (No commentary on any presidential...
by David Brooks | Aug 25, 2015 | Blog
For about a decade I or other members of my family have been collecting water samples in the Souhegan River every two weeks in the summer. They’re used for tests of dissolve oxygen and bacteria in a program overseen by the Souhegan Watershed Association. The...
by David Brooks | Aug 25, 2015 | Science-Technology, Scientific Exploration
Yes, there was a hole, and yes, you could sink into it. But from a geological perspective, the traffic-snarling chasm that opened up on Interstate 93 in Concord last week wasn’t really a sinkhole. Texas may have sinkholes and Florida may have sinkholes – sometimes the...
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