Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Sometimes, keen-eyed raptors just charge in blindly
If you're a hawk trying to get dinner in mid-air by grabbing one juicy bat out of a huge swarm of bats, how should you proceed? A new paper in Nature partly written by three UNH professors at the Center for Acoustics Research and Education in Durham says they just...
Car fire in a news story requires clarification nowadays
I've been a newspaper reporter for four decades and have written many stories about car fires. The latest is the first time I had to include this sentence: "The car was gasoline powered." No detail yet from fire dept. on make/model so I thought that line was necessary...
N.H. takes the ‘blame everybody else’ path for high energy prices
The New Hampshire Department of Energy’s new 10-year energy strategy, as in past years, says that depending on out-of-state companies to maximize their profits - a.k.a., "let the market do it" - will somehow result in cheap electricity and gas for in-state customers....
N.H. patents through Aug. 21
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Aug. 14 through Aug. 21. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Sinter, Intrasearch Beacon Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent...
Signs, signs, everywhere a (campaign) sign, blocking out the scenery, messing my mind …
New Hampshire's elections have not seen much in the way of electronic campaign signs - we're still in the land of cardboard/plastic on little metal brackets. I guess that's better? As the state gets closer to the September party primary, I dusted off an article...
It’s dry up here but what’s happening underground?
As we all crunch across our lawns in yet another dry summer, we should spare a moment’s thought for what’s happening underground. It might be changing and that might not be good. “It seems we are seeing a shift in baseline conditions of our monitoring wells,” is how...
Wastewater testing for monkeypox comes to Maine, maybe NH soon
Portland's water district will start testing wastewater for the monkeypox virus, reports the Bangor Daily News (paywalled). The private company Biobot tests for COVID at a couple of NH wastewater plants (data is here). I queried them yesterday and was told "we're...
Aging New Hampshire is going to need robot helpers, whether we like it or not
Technology won’t succeed unless we’re ready for it. New Hampshire, where the population is getting older and we don’t have enough caregivers, needs to get ready for robots. “In Japan, it is not shocking to think you will spend the last 10 years of your life with a...
Lyme disease is here to stay, vaccine or no
The need for a human vaccine against Lyme disease is a reminder that this tick-borne disease remains a major problem in New Hampshire even though our attention has been diverted by the pandemic. “We’ve been 100% focused on COVID for two years and just now are digging...
N.H. patents through Aug. 14
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Aug. 7 through Aug. 14. *** Cirkul Assigned Patent for Adjustable Additive Cartridge Systems, Methods Cirkul, Tampa, Florida, has been assigned a patent (No....
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