When a global catastrophe is destroying entire towns overnight via fire, flood and storm, it shouldn’t be hard to convince people that we should take things seriously. If only. It has been 20 years since I began writing stories that warned about the alarming things...

The British newspaper the Guardian, which has a very international audience, has discovered that maple syrup isn't collected via metal buckets hung on trees any more. That's a little unfair: Their article today (here it is!) gushes that vacuum draw and tube collection...

One of the reason people freak out about invasive species - new, fast-spreading plants, bugs or beasts that suddenly show up in an ecosystem - is because they can cause other unexpected and often undesired changes. Case in point: The arrival of the spiny water flea...

(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 July 28. *** Systems and Methods of Arrhythmia Detection BRAVEHEART...

You can't know everything, so the sensible thing to do is to decide what topics you will ignore completely, saving your mental energy for everything else. Long ago, I decided that for me, large-scale finance is one of those topics. When complex financial agreements or...

Considering that he’s one of the state’s most important cybersecurity folks whose organization is helping to secure vital government facilities, there are times when Jason Sgro gives some unexpected advice. “We’ve run into wastewater and drinking water facilities that...

Comcast Business is trying a new way to reach customers aside from through its cables, collaborating with the Starlink satellite-Internet service from SpaceX. Comcast currently reaches 118 New Hampshire communities in much of southern New Hampshire and the Lakes...

(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 July 14. *** Realtime Electronic Countermeasure Assessment BAE SYSTEMS...

Vineyard Wind, the big offshore wind farm being built south of Nantucket Island, is on hold after one of the blades broke and pieces washed ashore on that island of millionaires. One of many stories here. Not good news but hardly fatal to the industry. It should be up...