Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Telehealth stays even as COVID fades
From the Valley News: Dartmouth Health continues to see as many as 700 outpatients a day via telehealth, which became vital for maintaining access to care during the pandemic. That’s equivalent to about 12% of daily outpatient visits across the DH system and about 17%...
Segway-ish wheelchair gets insurance coverage, finally
More than two decades ago I was one of the reporters who got an early peek* at an eye-popping machine being developed by Dean Kamen: a motorized wheelchair that could stand up on two wheels, raising its occupant to eye level with standing adults, and also climb...
Bubble curtain may cut noise during offshore-wind construction
Some whales blow bubbles to create a rising "curtain" that helps them trap fish. The folks doing the Vineyard Wind offshore wind farm are looking into doing something similar during construction to reduce undersea noise. ReNews has the story. A bubble curtain, which...
N.H. patents through May 14
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through May 14. *** Methods and Systems for Efficient Encrypted SNI Filtering for Cybersecurity...
From little animals, mighty oaks (and other trees) grow
From UNH News Service: Mushrooms and many other less well-known types of fungi play key roles in forested ecosystems, helping transfer nutrients and water to plants and protecting roots from parasites found in the soil. In return, the fungi receive carbon-based food...
Maine flower comes back from the extinction brink
From the Center for Biological Diversity: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that an endangered flower in Maine is recovering under the Endangered Species Act and has been downlisted to threatened status. Furbish’s lousewort is a nearly 3-foot-tall,...
It’s not tech or medical magic that has kept a nasty deer disease out of New Hampshire
This post tells the story of a nasty disease that was heading toward New Hampshire but has been kept away by low-tech, sensible actions which have been adopted even though they inconvenience some people. Any comparison to our experience with COVID is left as an...
N.H. patents through May 7
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through May 7. *** Display Screen With Animated Graphical User Interface BOTTOMLINE TECHNOLOGIES, INC,...
NH firm makes undersea fiber cables
The Union-Leaderhas a good profile of a Newington, NH, company that makes undersea cables for data transmission. It's in a factory that once made coax cable for TV. Today, SubCom is one of three “key players that dominated the global submarine cables market in 2022,”...
Call it Cousin of Northern Pass
Five years after Northern Pass died there's another proposal on the books to bring Quebec hydropower through New Hampshire, but along a different route with different owners and a different financial setup. The 211-mile proposal, about 135 miles of which is in New...
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