By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Jan. 10 to Jan. 17. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Congestion, Overload Reduction Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,893,436,...

A replacement highway bridge in Hampden, a town next to Bangor, Maine, has girders made partly of composite materials and there's real hope this could cut down on maintenance problems, especially rust caused by road salt. The Bangor Daily News has a story - read it...

UPDATE: See note at bottom. Invasive species are non-native plants, bugs and beasts that for various reasons, usually lack of predators, spread so quickly after being introduced that they overwhelm native species. They're a huge problem all over the world because they...

There are lots of good reasons to compost your food waste, but here’s one I hadn’t thought of: a dearth of dirt. “Topsoil is getting harder and harder to find,” said Marc Morgan, solid waste manager for the city of Lebanon, who needs topsoil to cover the city landfill...

One of the most intriguingly successful inventions of my life has been Post-It Notes. The idea that glue which doesn't work very well could create an important product was counter-intuitive and bravo to the folks at 3M who pursued it. So it's interesting to hear of...

A report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development about COVID-19 makes clear the obvious: Vaccines were developed in record time because scientists around the world are good at rising above nationalism, and they also rose above commercial interest....