by David Brooks | Oct 5, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
By UNH News Service: After 26 years, the world’s longest-running experiment to discover how warming temperatures affect forest soils has revealed a surprising, cyclical response: Soil warming stimulates periods of abundant carbon release from the soil to the...
by David Brooks | Oct 4, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Sometimes I think my job title should be Wet Blanket Reporter – the man who throws cold water on fun but unlikely tales. A case in point: Although a UNH astronomer phrases it more cautiously, it’s safe to say that a falling meteorite did not start a fire in the...
by David Brooks | Oct 4, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Science Cafe NH in Nashua moved to a new venue last night – Riverwalk Cafe downtown, a very nice space – to discuss the technology of prosthetics, or replacement limbs. My favorite story came from Matt Albuquerque, founder of Next Step Bionics &...
by David Brooks | Oct 4, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Back in 2011, there was a battle in New Hampshire between biologists and pet owners about whether to allow people to own monk parakeets, a.k.a. Quaker parrots. which have become an invasive pest up through the southern bits of Connecticut. They can damage certain...
by David Brooks | Oct 3, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
When Dartmouth’s C. Robertson McClung heard that the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine had been given for work done in his own research field – the genetic underpinnings of the daily life cycles known as circadian rhythms – he swears his reaction was not, as mine...
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