Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Pssst: There’s no such thing as ‘peak’ leaf-peeping season
August has disappeared, and thoughts are turning to leaf-peeping season, which means it is time for the annual New Hampshire tradition of everybody asking "Why are the trees changing color so early this year?" The answer is that they aren't, mostly. Every year ,some...
Maine Monitor: Facing pushback on land, Maine’s space industry looks to the sea
The independent Maine Monitor has a story how the Maine Space Corporation, which lawmakers recently voted to make a nonprofit, is looking into sea-based launch platforms. It is in talks with The Spaceport Company, a Virginia-based startup that focuses on mobile...
NH patents through Aug. 31
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Aug. 31. *** Toe Cap for Footwear TBL LICENSING LLC, Stratham, New...
Pulling up a 1,500-pound rail is a machinery lover’s delight
Like many people, I am sad that the extension of the Greenway Trail through Concord will kill the Scenic Railriders business with its quirky pedaled train cars. On the other hand, I can’t wait to see what sort of machinery CSX brings here to pull up and haul off six...
Another late summer, another flash drought
Back in 2021 I wrote about the new-to-me (and relatively new to everybody) concept of a "flash drought." That sounds like an oxymoron since “drought” usually reflects accumulated dryness rather than a quick-hit event. But as we saw last summer and fall, it doesn’t...
Science Cafe Nashua: PFAs
Science Cafe in Nashua will discuss PFAs at their session Sept. 16 (a Tuesday). This is a topic that has grown from "there's one bad place in Merrimack" to "those things are absolutely everywhere" which makes the response much more complicated. Discussion starts at 6...
It’s so dry that Hubbard Brook sampling is affected
News from Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, where low water flows are making it hard to collect samples, which has been done for decades: Tammy Wooster of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies is based at Hubbard Brook and travels into the Forest to collect...
Betty & Barney Hill’s UFO abduction could be a big-budget film
NHPR has an interview (here) with a UFO podcast guy - a serous one, not a goofball - that reminded me how Betty & Barney Hills' alien abduction could eventually be hitting movie theaters: "Toby Ball is an author and host of the podcast “Strange Arrivals” about the...
Wet spring made fireflies happy
I haven't seen many fireflies at my house this year but perhaps I'm an anomaly. The Monitor has a story saying their numbers are good in New Hampshire - you can read it here. On top of that, the northeast experienced a wetter-than-average fall two years ago, which was...
N.H. patents through Aug. 24
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Aug. 24. ***Fluid Detection Systems and Methods Using the Same WATTS...
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