by David Brooks | Aug 7, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
From The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center: The Perseid Meteor Showers return this weekend, starting Friday (Aug. 11). The waning moon will wash out fainter meteors, but as this meteor shower is known for its high prevalence of fireballs, there should still be a...
by David Brooks | Aug 7, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Dartmouth College ranks highly in a new measure of the impact of academic research on global innovation, according to the Nature Index 2017 Innovation supplement. The index examines how often research articles from top science journals are cited in third-party patents...
by David Brooks | Aug 7, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
(This runs in the Concord Monitor each Monday but it fell through the cracks this week, so here it is.) Recent patents issued to NH inventors and/or companies: DEKA Products, Manchester, N.H., has been assigned a patent (9,713,667) developed by five co-inventors for a...
by David Brooks | Aug 4, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire Tech Hub, a recently started news/event source for the state’s tech community, has a story about a tourist shop in downtown Portsmouth that only accepts cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. It’s called the Free State Bitcoin Shoppe – and I...
by David Brooks | Aug 3, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has found the place it wants to test an intriguing power source known as the Stirling engine: In the laundry room of the state hospital. On Thursday the state asked for companies to bid on its plan for a Stirling engine – a variant of gas-powered engines...
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