Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Young stars can have planets, too
Finding exoplanets is becoming old hat in the astrophysics community but finding them among young stars is a big deal, as detailed in a Valley-News story about a Dartmouth researcher: Read it here. An interesting tidbit: Dr. Elisabeth Newton describes herself as...
N.H. patents through March 28
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from March 21 to March 28. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for X2 Brokering with Aggregation Optimization Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No....
N.H. woman gives birth at age 57
Via in-vitro fertilization, a 57-year-old New Hampshire woman has given birth. Definitely a state record. Concord Monitor story is here.
Blueberries for solar Sal
There's a 4-MW solar farm being built in and among a 10-are wild blueberry farm in Maine. It's partly an experiment to determine the best practices for "agrivoltaic" systems, which combine solar with farming lowbush blueberries. " One of the many project innovations...
How deep is that snow? Ask a Lidar-carrying drone!
Determining snow depth and water content is important, especially in places like the increasingly-drought-stricken Western U.S., but it's not easy. Scrambling around mountains with measuring sticks and snow-melting equipment isn't very efficient, so systems have been...
At Dartmouth, a tournament to teach people to spot phishing attacks
Dartmouth College has set up a clever tournament to help teach students and staff not to fall for phishing emails. It seems like most major corporate and government tech breaches occur not because of some cool software hack but because somebody clicked on the wrong...
Arctic scientists test underwater (and under-ice) drone in Vermont Lake
Vtdigger, one of two statewide independent news organizations in Vermont, has a story about REMUS 600, a 16-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle programmed that was tested below the ice on Willoughby Lake by engineers with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,...
A year of COVID produced 349 “excess” NH deaths; what caused them?
This week New Hampshire will mark a grim anniversary: A full year of COVID-19 deaths. On March 23, 2020, the state’s first official death was announced due to what we were calling “the novel coronavirus.” The virus hasn’t seemed novel for a long time now but the...
“Rule of 86” calculation time for syrup makers
If you're going to do local journalism in Vermont, you can't churn out predictable "oh boy it's maple syrup season!" stories. You've got to delve into the mathematics of the process, as the Valley New does here. What, you didn't know the Rule of 86?
N.H. patents through March 21
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from March 14 to march 21. *** Centripetal Networks Assigned Patent for Systems for Protecting Secured Network Centripetal Networks, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent...