Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Fresh kale on Mars? NASA like the idea
That proposal by Dartmouth students to grow kale in greenhouses on Mars that I mentioned last week impressed NASA, it seems: A team from Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering that designed a greenhouse for Mars has been announced the winner of the 2019 NASA BIG...
N.H. population is growing fast, by the slow standards of N.H.
New Hampshire is growing either slowly or quickly, depending on how you look at it. But either way, it is people moving here, not people having babies, who are making the difference. New Census Bureau estimates say that the state grew by 6,700 people between July 2017...
Formula Hybrid (and Electric) racing/R&D returns to NH Motor Speedway
Twenty college teams from Canada, India and across the U.S. will be at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon next week for the 14th Formula Hybrid contest, which is sort of like FIRST Robotics crossed with NASCAR. Eight hybrid and 12 electric vehicles will need...
The man who made smartphone cameras possible
Eric Fossum of Dartmouth will be the keynote speaker at the 31st Entrepreneur of the Year awards in New Hampshire. At professor at Thayer School of Engineering and director of its Ph.D. innovation program, he received the Queen Elizabeth Prize for his role in helping...
You *really* need a reservation for Science Cafe NH in Concord
It was another packed house for the monthly Science Cafe NH discussion in Concord at its new home in the Makris Lobster and Steak House on Rt. 106. Good thing we require people to reserve seats in advance now or there would have been fist-fights in the hallway. I...
New Science Cafe coming as last month’s goes online
Science Cafe NH returned to Concord in March at a new location and we had a few logistical problems. But an edited (35-minute) video of the two-hour discussion about genes, genealogy and forensics is online courtesy of ConcordTV - you can see it here. The April event,...
Is there a town-and-gown joke in new online historical database?
UPDATE: See a comment at the end of the story saying the name is a coincidence. The New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources has launched a new online tool for historic records research called Enhanced Mapping and Management Information Tool or EMMIT. It...
The mystery of the “taxidermied bear”
New Hampshire Public Radio has a good story about the ongoing problem of bears interacting with people in New Hampshire - read/hear it here - and they included a database of bear nuisance reports to New Hampshire Fish and Game over four years. The causes were clumped...
Grow kale on Mars? Dartmouth students say: You bet!
Dartmouth engineering students will head to NASA’s Langley Research Center soon to pitch a Mars greenhouse concept that has the potential to grow enough crops to sustain a small human colony. As one of five finalists for NASA’s 2019 Breakthrough, Innovative, and...
Vermont’s utility wants to go all carbon-free and renewable, and pretty soon
Green Mountain Power, the utility that covers most of Vermont, has joined the ranks of utilities like Xcel Energy that are working toward 100 percent carbon-free electricity. It said it will target 100 percent carbon-free by 2025 and 100 percent renewables by 2030. To...
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