The EPA has approved the use of nootkatone, a chemical found in some trees and citrus fruit, as a tick repellant, reports the NY Times in a story with a cool headline: "Citrus Flavoring is Weaponized Against Insect-Borne Diseases." That doesn't mean it will show up on...

University of New Hampshire researchers have teamed up with colleagues from Pennsylvania State University to investigate whether a byproduct of shrimp shells from the seafood industry could help manage one of the most devastating fruit diseases facing the U.S. apple...

When it comes to driving safely there are two important factors to consider: How fast you’re going and how fast you’re accelerating. If you’re driving 10 mph you’re probably safe – unless you’ve just stomped on the gas and are peeling out with smoking tires, in which...

Manchester-Boston Regional Airport will see the arrival of a DC-3, the most iconic of propeller-driven passenger planes, on Aug. 15 to wind up a virtual "around the world" flight that has been hosted by the New Hampshire Aviation Museum this summer. Tours will be...

It sounds great for a city or state to stop adding natural gas to its energy mix but for certain applications that's not easy - such as heating buildings. But there's an interesting idea to create "GeoMicroDistricts", sort of a microgrid except with hot water instead...

Offshore wind power is to renewable energy as Babe Ruth is to 1930's baseball - in a league by itself. (In 1927 Ruth hit more home runs by himself than were hit by 12 other teams.) Although distributed solar will be bigger on a global scale, for the near future...

One of my favorite mathematical thingamajigs is Benford's Law, the weirdly counter-intuitive finding about which digits are most likely to appear in most data sets. Basically, it says that in many naturally occurring collections of numbers, no matter how random they...