Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
NH patents through June 2
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through June 2. Malicious Homoglyphic Domain Name Detection and Associated Cyber...
Don’t touch this caterpillar (which has just entered NH)
From NH Forest Health Bureau: Browntail moth caterpillar winter webs have been located and removed at the Isles of Shoals off of the New Hampshire coast, the N.H. Forest Health Bureau announced today. This is the first confirmed incident of the species in the Granite...
Mirror Lake winter: Ice-in, ice-out, ice-in, ice-out, ice-in, ice-out, ice-in, ice-out
From Hubbard Brook Research Foundation: During the 2023-24 winter season, Mirror Lake underwent four separate freeze-thaw cycles, as determined by an event never before seen during the lake's 60-year ice record. Hubbard Brook technician, Tammy Wooster, from the Cary...
Nine more NH school districts get electric-bus grants
As four electric school buses in Henniker and Weare wind up their first full month of operation, news has come that nine more school districts in New Hampshire will get funding for the buses them in the latest round of federal grants. In Wednesday’s announcement, part...
“Don’t drink raw milk — that’s the message.”
A study from Wisconsin - a dairy state if there ever was one - found that when you fed unpasteurized milk contaminated with bird-flu virus H5N1 to mice, it made them sick and damaged their organs. It didn't "boost their immune system" or anything like that; it just...
NH patents through May 26
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through May 26. *** Shoe Sole COLE HAAN LLC, Greenland, New Hampshire has been...
Co-parent of PDP-8 & VAX dies; those systems helped create modern New Hampshire
The final big textile mill left New Hampshire right after WWII, although the industry had all but died before that, and the state was hurting economically. We were saved by tech firms taking their place - either local defense contractors (Sanders Associates) or...
‘Pee-cycling’ group wants to expand from Vermont (where else?) into NH
A Vermont organization is turning human urine into fertilizer that is being used on a half-dozen farms in that state and would like to expand the service into New Hampshire. “We have people who are interested in New Hampshire, certainly,” said Arthur Davis, operations...
UNH researchers wonder if controlled burns really do help red oak
From UNH News Service: Research led by Matthew Vadeboncoeur, a research scientist with UNH’s Earth Systems Research Center at the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, is investigating how prescribed fire could be used improve red oak regeneration and...
A surprisingly excellent NH museum is built around telephones
There’s something a little surprising about one of New Hampshire’s best museums, the small but mighty New Hampshire Telephone Museum in Warner: You’re not supposed to touch most of the exhibits even though they’re the kind of thing we’ve touched all our lives. “These...
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