The Massachusetts Department of Fisheries and Wildlife wants to establish a breeding population of timber rattlesnakes on an island in the middle of the Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts, to help the endangered species. The Globe reports that some locals are...

ISO-New England, the folks who run the power grid for the six-state region, issued a report yesterday  about the state of the system. It emphasized the growing importance of natural gas, and noted that in winter, coal and oil are making something of a rebound as...

From Lori Wright, UNH News Service: Researchers with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire have invented a low-cost method to monitor lakes for dangerous airborne toxins that have been linked to liver problems. Jim Haney, professor...

A bitcoin vending machine (not an ATM) has been set up at Murphy's Taproom in Manchester, reports Free Keene. A year or two ago I would have thought we were beyond being surprised by such announcements, since bitcoin machines were the hot new thing, but this makes...

Hey, *you* try describing the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture on the radio.  

From US Fish and Wildlife Service: Over the past century, many shrublands and young forests across the Northeast have been cleared for development or have grown into mature forests. As this habitat has disappeared from much of the landscape, the populations of more...