Seven months ago I wrote a column about the paradoxical arithmetic of mass testing for a rare disease, showing that even very accurate tests are wrong more often than we think. It was a fun intellectual exercise thrown together as a last-minute replacement for a...

After nine years of success hosting science-y discussions in bars and restaurants in Concord and Nashua, Science Cafe New Hampshire was squelched by COVID-19 just like everybody else. We hope to get back to reality in the fall, but next week the Nashua crew is trying...

The historic Blake Cemetery in the North Country town of Stark, which sits atop a 40-foot bluff, is being undermined by the Upper Ammonoosuc River, with gravestones and human remains close to being washed away. On Friday, NH State Police found a human skull on the...

Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument is now a "dark sky" sanctuary, the National Park Service announced today. The designation by the International Dark-Sky Association is the first of its kind along the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S., the second in the National...

Over the last six weeks a non-trivial percentage of the stories that I, and ever other reporter, have covered can be classified as "X industry's changes caused by COVID-19." Here's my latest: New Hampshire's four slaughterhouses are doing fine despite the turmoil...

Patients who have recovered from COVID-19 are being sought by New Hampshire hospitals and the American Red Cross because the liquid portion of their blood might help treat sick people. A number of hospitals including Elliott in Manchester, Southern New Hampshire in...

I figured Manchester-Boston Regional Airport was being hit hard by the COVID-19 shutdown, but holy cow! Check out the numbers in the Union-Leader story (here): "The state’s largest airport had 95% fewer passengers last month than a year ago because of government...