There are times when it seems to me that almost all news is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic - and seeing this news is one of those times: Global sea ice is at the lowest level ever recorded. The scary part is the speed at which this...

Speaking of bitcoin, as I did yesterday, there's a bill before the New Hampshire legislature which would remove a designation put in place last year that classified selling bitcoin as a "money transfer," a designation that carries requirements for bonding and...

I've been writing about UNH aquaculture since 1999, including efforts to develop ways to raise large numbers of fish in huge floating tanks (really nets suspended from big floating rings) in the ocean. It's cool to see that this operation is paying dividends in the...

Yesterday's Science Cafe NH in Nashua discusses cybersecurity, with panelists Tim Winters of UNH-Interoperability Lab and John Murphy of Flowtraq, a network-monitoring firm in Lebanon, N.H.  They were both excellent; unfortunately the Nashua SCNH is not filmed, so you...

It's now obvious that the Russians didn't hack into Burlington Electric, the power utility in northwest Vermont, despite an early Washington Post story claiming it. (The Post, which is a real rather than fake news organization, wrote a follow-up story detailing its...

By the time you read this, the first heavy storm of the winter will be on its way out to sea and you will have one question on your mind: How much snow did I get? I hate to break it to you, but if by “how much” you mean “how deep,” nobody really knows for sure....

My favorite stories involve explaining ordinary things that we hardly think about (like, say, snow fences). For several years I've wanted to write one about telephone - sorry, utility poles. I finally got around to it last week, and it was published on Christmas Eve...