Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Maybe (please, please, please) COVID-19 will change our cities for the better
(Here is my column in this week's Monitor. Space constraints in print meant I didn't include the biggest-context part of the conversation: Toderian pointed out that climate change is making pandemics more likely, so changing cities to limit future climate change is...
Rooftop solar is becoming a big deal in New England
One sunny afternoon earlier this month, reports ISO-New England, the six-state region had roughly 3,200 MW of "behind the meter" solar - the rooftop stuff, as compared to stand-alone solar farms that feed straight to the grid. This was a record, says the folks who run...
DHMC to test drug that limits worsening of COVID symptoms
Dartmouth-Hitchcock is one of the first academic medical centers for a new FDA-approved national Phase 3 study of a drug with the potential to treat patients in the hospital with COVID-19 pneumonia. Lenzilumab is a monoclonal antibody that could prevent the severity...
They’ve got a knack for a plaque & I’m taken aback
Regular readers know that I love New Hampshire's historical highway plaques, especially the one that honors the creation of BASIC and the super-especially the one that honors the nation's first "alien abduction." I thought nobody could touch us in this category, until...
Learn to count bats, even if you don’t have a belfry
If you have bats in your barn or other outbuildings around your home, New Hampshire wildlife biologists would love to hear from you! Citizen science volunteers are needed more than ever this summer to conduct bat counts around their property. On Thursday, June 4, from...
Science Cafe discussion about COVID-19
If you missed the first virtual Science Cafe New Hampshire, it went really well. At least 500 people watched it. Bobbie Bagley, Director of the Division of Public Health for Nashua, Nashua city epidemiologist Angela Consentino and Jenn Alford-Teaster, senior research...
N.H. patents through May 17
By Targeted News Service Trustees of Dartmouth College Assigned Patent for Quanta Image Sensor with Polarization-Sensitive Jots Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,652,497, initially filed April 23, 2018) by two...
Truck traffic is back. Cars? Not so much.
Truck traffic has returned to New Hampshire’s turnpike system but car traffic is still only half of its pre-COVID level, reflecting the fact that far fewer people are commuting to work. A total of 1.23 million trips by cars and trucks were made through the state’s...
Gosh, it’s been super-windy this year! (Well, actually ….)
Doesn't it seem like it's been windier than normal over the past couple of months? It sure does to me and anybody else I've talked to about it. That query was put to the National Weather Service folks in Gray, maine, who cover Maine and most of New Hampshire. They...
Testing UV disinfection at UNH
My column a few weeks ago dealt with Jim Malley, a UNH professor who's been an expert in disinfection for decades and is leading research into methods of disinfecting medical equipment such as masks for working with COVID-19. UNH News has a feature story on the main...
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