by David Brooks | Jul 18, 2016 | Blog
BY Lori Wright, UNH News Service: It’s the middle of the night, and University of New Hampshire doctoral student Kayla Aragona has just received a text alert at home on her cell phone from a cow in labor at the Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research Center. A sensor –...
by David Brooks | Jul 15, 2016 | Blog
A Silicon Valley startup has launched an app that lets you buy and claim Powerball lottery tickets in New Hampshire. It’s only available for that one game and only in New Hampshire because of the state-specific regulations and laws around lotteries, even...
by David Brooks | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog
Ever since the emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle, burst out of the Midwest a decade ago, it has seemed obvious that it would wipe out all of North America’s ash trees, just as Dutch elm disease wiped out our elms. The expectation is that in a few decades the...
by David Brooks | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog
The desire for perfect-looking fruit and vegetables leads to as much as half of all American produce to be discarded, reports the Guardian: Vast quantities of fresh produce grown in the US are left in the field to rot, fed to livestock or hauled directly from the...
by David Brooks | Jul 12, 2016 | Blog
Cape Cod is vulnerable to rising water tables and, in some areas, groundwater inundation as a result of rising sea levels, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey study. Groundwater inundation occurs when the water table reaches or exceeds land surface. The...
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