by David Brooks | Jul 5, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s hard to walk through New Hampshire woods these days without coming across at least one game cam, those automated cameras that take pictures or video when something passes in front of them. Initially, it was hunters that popularized them, putting so many cameras...
by David Brooks | Jul 5, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from June 26 through July 3. *** Trustees of Dartmouth College, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clime Assigned Patent for Altering Intestinal Microbiome in Cystic Fibrosis Trustees...
by David Brooks | Jul 4, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Twenty-five years ago, the Pathfinder mission landed on Mars using gigantic versions of auto collision airbags to cushion the landing. The rovers Spirit and Opportunity also used the same system. NASA hasn’t done it since, apparently because rovers have gotten...
by David Brooks | Jul 1, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Biochar is one of those things that sounds too good to be true: Turning waste wood into a carbon-locking, soil-helping material through a simple, cheap process (pyrolysis – burning it in a low-oxygen environment). There’s a big biochar plant being...
by David Brooks | Jul 1, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Keeping track of underwater robots is hard since GPS doesn’t travel far through water. Dartmouth researchers say drones can spot them using nothing more than laser light. One key issue was the low intensity of the light that came back to the drone. It was too...
by David Brooks | Jun 30, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Old and old-ish people remember when civil aviation was fun rather than the nasty, brutish and long experience it is today. Airports and airplanes and pilots and stewardesses were exotic and admired, planes were linking the world together into one big happy family,...