A study just released by the U.S. Geological Society is casting doubt on the idea that toxins released by cyanobacteria blooms cause or contribute to neurological disorders such as ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease – an idea that has been put forward in recent years by researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, among others. 

TechOut, the annual competition among startups put on by the New Hampshire High Tech Council, has gotten much bigger: This year it awarded $300,000 rather than $100,000 to the two firms chosen from six finalists. The winner is Kantum Diagnostics of Concord, which is developing a “diagnostic and therapeutic combination” to prevent and treat acute kidney injury: “Years of looking through a microscope have paid off finally,” said professor Sylvie Breton, co-founder and CSO of Kantum.

Science Cafe Concord on Tuesday discussed the power grid, and how its being forced to change in the face of renewable energy, distributed energy, microgrids, storage and other technologies, all fueled by our growing worries about climate change. It was a very good...

The video brings out our inherent species-ism – we root for the warm-blooded creature over the invertebrate – as well as reminding us that Nature can be really, really mean.

Serita Frey, a soil microbiologist and a professor at UNH in Durham, got curious and found old data about the date that a campus ginko tree dumps its leaves in late fall. (The species famously drops all its leaves at once, like a strip tease for attention-deficit...