by David Brooks | May 5, 2016 | Blog
You know how annoying it is when an anti-virus scan starts while you’re doing something on your computer, slowing everything down or even freezing it? Now imagine this scenario: A critical medical equipment crashed during a heart procedure due to a timely scan...
by David Brooks | May 5, 2016 | Blog
A report from Quarz says: Mosquitoes infected with a bacteria Wolbachia are less likely to carry the dengue virus, previous studies had found. Now, in a new study, Brazilian researchers have found that these bacteria can do the same job against the Zika...
by David Brooks | May 4, 2016 | Blog
At last night’s Science Cafe Concord, which discussed Lyme disease and thus ticks, UNH entomologist Alan Eaton discussed the importance of doing a “tick check” on yourself when you come in from outdoors, to pull off the little buggers before...
by David Brooks | May 3, 2016 | Blog
Science Cafe Concord tonight discusses Lyme disease. Which means we’ll discuss ticks. Which is why there’s a picture of me tucking my pants into my socks in today’s Concord Monitor.
by David Brooks | May 2, 2016 | Blog
Ralph Baer, the late Manchester inventor who led the team that created the first home video game (Magnavox Odyssey) while working for a Nashua defense contractor, already has his home office in the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History. Now a gaming museum,...
by David Brooks | May 2, 2016 | Blog
UnDark, the new MIT science-journalism magazine, has a piece about unpublished research which hints that the Zika virus might be carried by Culex pipiens, which is the mosquito most common for transmitting West Nile virus and EEE in New England. The evidence is thin,...
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