Legal documents are notoriously hard to read but that's not because lawyers are bad writers - not entirely, anyway. Anybody who has ever tried to write a document with some legal heft knows that it's hard to develop wording that conveys exactly what you mean and...

As I write this (June 14th) sunrise has occurred at the earliest clock time of the year - 5:05:33 a.m. in Concord, a tiny bit later where I am, an hour south. But it's not the longest day of the year, meaning the most hours of daylight - that doesn't happen until the...

There's been a lot of grumbling in recent years from researchers about the business and information-sharing practices of the companies that publish scholarly journals: The basic complaint is that while scientists write the articles and do peer review for free,...

As far as I'm concerned, the big problem with the Internet of Things is security. With umpty-ump different companies fighting for attention with products that link you online, everybody's going to concentrate on features and price and ignore security and privacy,...

By Targeted News Service The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from June 7 to June 14. *** Hypertherm Assigned Patent for Providing of Nozzle for Liquid-Cooled Plasma Arc Torch Hypertherm, Hanover, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No....

Tuesday at a regularly scheduled press conference, the director of Health and Human Services, Lori Shibinette, said New Hampshire would not using apps on mobile phones as part of its efforts to track the spread of COVID-19. “We have looked at different apps … We just...

It exasperates me that we're so slow to set up some form of time-of-use rates for electricity, since that's such a straightforward way to get people to shift when we demand power, making it easier to balance a clean grid. The power of market incentives, the invisible...