Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
U.K. approves COVID vaccine being tested in N.H.
The BBC reports that the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for use in the United Kingdom (which might not be all that united soon, but that's another story). A clinical trial for this vaccine is being run in New Hampshire. Among the testers is my wife;...
Sensors small enough to ride on a butterfly are changing wildlife biology
Sometimes science advances because of new ideas (this is where I make the obligatory Einstein reference) but sometimes it advances because of new tools. An excellent example of the latter was installed this year in Stoddard. “This opens up the ability to ask new...
What’s preventing a tiny house village from being built? Lots of things
The funky little town of Peterborough (which feels like a university town, but without the university - very odd) has an ongoing kerfuffle over a collection of tiny houses. Safety problems with electrical systems led the town to force people out the week before...
Acadia is the least-bad national park when it comes to invasive plants
A study of invasive plants in national parks found that Acadia in Maine, the northeast's only national park, is the least affected by this global problem - but it's still affected. Invasive plants were found in 50 percent of plots in 39 parks. Ten parks had at least...
N.H. patents through Dec. 27
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Dec. 20 to Dec. 27. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Cell ID Disambiguation Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,873,884, initially...
Are elves human? Primates? Something else? Epidemiologists need to know
Thanks to timely announcements from Dr. Fauci, we know that Santa Claus is immune from COVID-19. However, an investigation by the GeekWitness News Team has uncovered a shocking fact: This immunity may not extend to his elves! This is significant because Santa is upper...
Keeping track of temperatures is suddenly big(-er) business
One of the unexpected results of the pandemic has been to focus attention on formerly obscure technologies that everybody suddenly cares about, like face-mask design and ventilation filters. Here’s another example, one that has a Warner company scrambling: Temperature...
C-130 was testing a decontamination system before it was hauled through Concord
Remember that C-130 fuselage that raised so many eyebrows when it was trucked through downtown Concord last month? I wrote several stories speculating but not really knowing why it was here. At last the story can be told! (The U.S. military does many things well but...
Rural broadband launched by co-op utility in four towns
New Hampshire Electric Co-operative, which this year included broadband internet among the services it aims to provide, has rolled out the service in four small western N.H. towns: Lempster, Clarksville, Colebrook and Stewartstown. Speeds are "up to 1 gigabit"...
Snow measurement is Heisenberg uncertain
You know how the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal says (roughly) that we can't accurately know the velocity and the location of a sub-atomic particle at the same time because measuring one alters the other? Measurement of snow depth is like that, too: You can't know...
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