by David Brooks | Sep 13, 2017 | Newsletter
These days, New England operates on natural gas. We heat with it and generate about half our electricity with it; any other option is more expensive. But we don’t want more pipelines bringing it into the region and would like to do without fossil fuels entirely,...
by David Brooks | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
There are a lot of insect pests that don’t thrive in New Hampshire because of our cold winters. Our winters are getting less cold, or at least less long, and some of them are sneaking north with dire consequences. One of those is the hemlock wooly adelgid, which...
by David Brooks | Sep 13, 2017 | Newsletter
Yitang “Tom” Zhang used to be a calculus teacher at UNH and apparently a good one – students praised him on RateMyProfessors.com, unusual for a mathematician with a strong accent – when he published a breakthrough in the twin-prime problem that made him...
by David Brooks | Sep 12, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The above clip is taken from the draft Regional System Plan from ISO-New England, the folks who run the six-state power grid. There’s a big conference in Boston today discussing the issue of how to deal with all the changes – mostly the growth of...
by David Brooks | Sep 11, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
By UNH News Service: Discovering a new type of cell is a remarkable accomplishment for any scientists. Tim Marquis, who graduated in 2015 with his bachelor’s degree in biomedical science from the University of New Hampshire, can check that off his bucket list....
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