Offshore wind makes sense along the Eastern seaboard because our continental shelf is pretty flat, so waters are shallow-ish and easy to build in (the continental shelf along the Pacific coast, by contrast, falls off sharply) – plus, it’s close to lots of electricity customers. Things are finally happening on that front.

“Antibiotics are the only drug where misuse for one patient can have health consequences for someone else.”

Bittware has moved three times but stayed on Main Street because being downtown is a lure to high-tech employees.

In school I hated statistics and enjoyed (mostly) calculus, but I’ve come to believe that the emphasis in our math instruction is misplaced.

Science Cafe New Hampshire just celebrated its seventh anniversary - seven! holy cow - with its regular monthly conversations in Nashua and Concord. In Concord, where I moderate, the topic was "reinventing recycling" and the conversation was just terrific, ranging...

Non-wires alternatives is a goofy term for an admirable idea: Improve the power grid without building more towers and substations and, yes, wires, by using less electricity, storing electricity, and generating electricity closer to customers. But how to do it, exactly?