by David Brooks | Apr 19, 2016 | Blog
The AP has a good story (seen here via the Portland Press-Herald site) about a Maine law that will let Fairpoint start edging away from the universal-service mandate, which requires landline phone companies to make access available to virtually everyone. The Maine law...
by David Brooks | Apr 19, 2016 | Blog
Nashua will get a chance to discuss gene editing via the incredibly powerful technology known as CRISPR at Science Cafe NH tomorrow in Nashua. Science Cafe Concord discussed it last month, but there’s plenty to discuss – attending both events would be...
by David Brooks | Apr 18, 2016 | Blog
What do you do when you think that invasive insects are going to kill trees? You can try to save them, but if you’re facing problems like the emerald ash borer or red pine scale, that’s pretty hopeless – so instead you can cut them down while...
by David Brooks | Apr 18, 2016 | Blog
The following federal patents were assigned to individuals and companies in New Hampshire. Schlumberger Technology, Sugar Land, Texas, has been assigned a patent (9,304,226) developed by four co-inventors for a “scintillator-based neutron detector for oilfield...
by David Brooks | Apr 13, 2016 | Blog
A research project in Madison, Wisconsin, is trying to take trees too small to be sold for lumber or energy biomass and turn them into a marketable product via “nanocellulose”, reports USDA’ Forest Products Laboratory (story here): Scientists are...
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