We're pretty smug about wildfires here in the Northeast, where it's generally cool and damp enough to save us from Western-style conflagrations. But that smugness is wearing thin. The wildfires in equally cool and damp Quebec and Nova Scotia have emphasized the way...

(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through June 18. *** Controlled-Impedance Compliant Cable Termination ARDENT...

It sounds like some sort of gimmick or maybe a typo, but the CEO of Walden Mutual Bank says its new 100-year CD makes sense even if you don’t plan to live for a century. “Alongside a portfolio of stocks and bonds and such, it is an economically rational investment,”...

These days we only go into the Boston area to dance (Boston Swing Central in Cambridge), although I might visit Fenway this summer since the Sox are lousy so I can get tickets. Here's another possibility: Boston is one of 14 US and Canadian cities that host an...

The question of whether biomass energy - burning wood in some form to use the heat and power - is good or bad for fighting climate change has been debated in forest-filled New England for years. It's a close cal: I was in favor of biomass in 2016, opposed in 2017, and...

Remember when finding evidence of planets circling other stars was big, big news? Like all things scientific, it quickly became pretty routine, at least for the astrophysics set. Dartmouth reports that a physics and astronomy major who just graduated found two of them...

From Masslive: Eversource has hundreds of miles of rights of way under its Massachusetts transmission lines, where periodic clearing creates a scrub-and-brush terrain bordering grown forest. It’s an ideal home for eastern box turtles in a New England landscape...

New Hampshire native Alan Shepard hit two golfs during his stint on the moon for Apollo 14. New video images show how far they went. Not all that far, despite the vacuum and low gravity. Details are here from the BBC.

It turns out that the right-to-repair law passed in Massachusetts and uphold by courts "does essentially mean there would be no proper security controls preventing someone from remotely connecting into a car" and may not go into effect after all, although it's...