Reported by Geoff Forester in today's Monitor; I helped with the writing: A nationally known computer hacker, a term he wears proudly, helped keep an eye on New Hampshire’s primary Tuesday but says you didn’t need computer smarts to see that it went well. “One big...

Anybody who measures precipitation, as I do for the citizen-science group CoCoRaHS, knows that measuring snowfall is hard. It drifts, it compresses over time, there's only a minor correlation between depth and moisture. So it's hard to study and understand over the...

Farmers, as you know, grow stuff to eat. Gardeners grow stuff to look at. Or, wait – do they really? That’s the distinction that has always lurked in my head, although I never really thought about it until recently. It turns out that this unspoken assumption, like so...

We may not be ready to adopt “Live Telemarketer-Free or Die” as a state slogan but we might be getting close: New Hampshire is No. 1 when it comes to registering on the federal Do Not Call list. Last year, the Federal Trade Commission says people in New Hampshire...

The annual forward capacity auction run for the six-state power grid (I wrote about it yesterday) might have produced record-low prices, but it also frustrated some renewable energy creators because of a ultra-wonky regulatory issue: whether state or federal rules...

Dartmouth College is partnering with four electrical tech companies – GE Research, Analog Devices, Empower Semiconductor, and Ampt – to form a National Science Foundation-funded Industry-University Collaborative Research Center, the first one focusing on integrated...

The most intriguing clean-tech story in New Hampshire these days is the secretive-ish company moving into a closed mill in Groveton, where it says it has a new technology can use water power to create hydrogen cleanly. (Here's my last story on it.) This is cool but...