Manure contains phosphorus, which can prompt algae blooms if too much gets into water supplies, so places such as dairy farms are anxious to separate out the phosphorus before spreading their farm waste as fertilizer. One way to do that is with a...

"There are markets and there are niche markets, and then there’s the market being pursued by Right Height, a New Hampshire firm developing an adjustable-height table aimed just at chess players." That's the start of a piece I wrote in the Monitor on Saturday about a...

The Globe has a story about a trio of Cambridge, Mass.firms moving fast to develop and commercialize drugs and biotech products using CRISPR, the gene-editing tool (including one company called CRISPR, which gets the bulk of the coverage because it is parterning with...

I've been meaning to do this story in New Hampshire; the Portland Press-Herald did it for Maine. “Especially when you get away from the coastline, the dry conditions have knocked the tick population down,” Lubelczyk said. “The humidity along the coast keeps the tick...

The Block Island wind project in Rhode Island is small by offshore wind standards - 30 megawatts, or about twice the peak output of the Amoskeag hydropower dam in Manchester but only about 3 percent of the peak output of Seabrook Station - but it will be the first in...

Quora, a sort of wikipedia of question-and-answer sessions, has an excellent discussion about what it's like to work in advanced mathematics. You should read it all here. A few tidbits* to whet your appetite: . Mathematicians don't really care about "the answer" to...

The Chinese and Russian economies are weak, so people there have stopped buying as much fur - which means that the price of a beaver pelt has fallen from the mid-40-dollars to barely 10 bucks. As any good capitalist would predict, this means fewer people are trapping...