Offshore wind farms - even dinky ones, like Block Island off Rhode Island - are very big engineering projects. And with very big engineering projects, you can get very big expensive mistakes. They've got one at Block Island, reports E&E News: The rocky saeabed...

New Hampshire, like much of the country, is full of small, no-longer-used dams that chup up streams and rivers into semi-connected pieces. this is bad for a lot of ecological reasons. Removing old dams can be expensive and often causes other problems, such as release...

A firm in Bangor, Maine says it is "close" to building a biorefinery that will turn wood waste from paper and lumber mills into liquid fuel that would be sold by New Hampshire's Sprague Resources. As reported by the Portland Press-Herald's Tux Turkel (story is here),...

I am old enough to remember when "The Andromeda Strain" came out in 1969; it caused quite the sensation although "Jurassic Park" has overshadowed it since then among casual Michael Crichton fans. So I'm happy to be part of a panel discussion about the book, sponsored...

By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Oct. 25 to Nov. 1. *** Hypertherm Assigned Patent for Operating Plasma arc Processing Systems Hypertherm, Hanover, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,820,401, initially...

Dragonflies might be the coolest type of insect around - beautiful engineering and deadly hunting skills all in one. They can also, it turns out, be used to measure heavy metals in the environment, as a video from Dartmouth (here it is) demonstrates. A citizen science...