New Hampshire doesn't have municipal electric utilities - city-owned providers of electricity - but other New England states do. They have a lot more flexibility than large corporate utilities or even regional co-ops. And here's an example: 21 of them in...

By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Nov. 8 to Nov. 15 *** BAE Systems Information & Electronic Systems Integration Assigned Patent for Signal Chopping Switch Circuit BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems...

I've written many times about Benford's Law, the non-intuitive discovery that certain types of data sets have an odd property: The first digit of their data is more likely to be small than large - in a classic Bendford's dataset, numbers will start with a "1" about...

One of the best-known electric vehicle repair people in the Northeast is Rich Benoit in Salem, Mass., a former IT guy who rode his YouTube videos about electric-vehicle repair to a national reputation. That reputation made him butt heads with famously secretive Tesla...

From Dartmouth New Service: A “molecular volume knob” that regulates electrical signals in the brain helps with learning and memory, according to a Dartmouth study. The molecular system controls the width of electrical signals that flow across synapses between...

If you're going to test a weather station to make sure it'll work on Mount Everest, where do you go? How about Mount Washington. From an article (read it here) in AMC's Outdoors magazine: They spent several hours off the side of the auto road, just above treeline,...

You can't generate millions of watts of electricity would creating some problems - nothing's perfect. Solar panels' most obvious problem is area - they have to spread out to absorb enough photons. It's easiest and cheapest to do this spreading out on flat, dry parcels...

Back when I was in middle school a lot of people were talking about a disastrous infection that had come out of an exotic place and was threatening millions of people, just like COVID-19. It had a much better name, however – The Andromeda Strain – and it was much...

The power-to-weight ratio of batteries and electric motors doesn't seem like they'd work for aviation, but who knows: An Israeli company called Eviation says that by 2022 it will deliver a 9-passenger electric airplane to Cape Air, a small airline that connects Cape...