From UNH Today: Soils are fundamental to food production and for the 97 percent of New Hampshire farms that are small family-owned and operated businesses, proactively managing and ensuring healthy, productive soils is key to long-term sustainability and viability in...

(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 March 24. *** Systems and Methods for Guiding Tissue Resection THE TRUSTEES...

Americans love flat-faced dogs: French bulldogs beat perennial favorite Labrador retrievers to be the most commonly registered purebred dog last year, according to the American Kennel Club, while pugs and pekes aren’t far behind. But popularity has...

Researchers from Italy, Germany and UCal-Berkeley in the US looked at "The visual effect of wind turbines on property values" and found that it wasn't much and went to zero before the mortgage is paid off:  We statistically estimate the impact of having at least one...

Here's an excellent package of advice for locals about how to deal with the eclipse on April 8. It's from the Emergency Management folks in Plainfield, Vermont, between Montpelier and St. Johnsbury, which will see totality. If they haven't reached their destination...

Like many of you I am really looking forward to next month’s solar eclipse, but there is one small drawback: It will do a number on my solar panels’ output. For slightly over two hours on April 8, parts of the sun will be blocked by the moon. I live in the Souhegan...

This blog has written about Merrimack Station, the coal-fired power plant in Bow, NH, on the banks of the Merrimack River, more times than I can count. And I can count really high! But it's good to get different perspectives, so here's the Christian Science Monitor's...

(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 March 17. *** Multi-Channel Communications Antenna ASTRONICS AEROSAT...

And just like that, ice is gone from Lake Winnipesaukee almost before we knew it was there. On Sunday, the earliest ever “ice-out” was declared on the lake, just 37 days after the latest ever “ice-in” was declared Feb 9. The declarations are unofficial, made by Dave...

Next weekend marks four years since New Hampshire saw its first death from what was then called “the novel coronavirus,” and although COVID-19 isn’t taking many lives these days, the passage of time shows it has ushered us into an unhappy new normal in terms of...