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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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?

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...

If you're reading this after the newsletter landed in your inbox, I will have been vaccinated for about two hours. Woo-hoo! Unfortunately, since I wrote this Monday NH's COVID numbers haven't improved; in fact, the number of people in the hospital jumped yesterday....

Six people including a novelty candidate for governor were indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in New Hampshire on charges of participating in a conspiracy to launder money using virtual currency such as bitcoin. According to an indictment handed down by a U.S....