If there’s any single thing that marks somebody as a geek in the original sense, it’s space travel.Computers were once the sign of true geekdom but...
Since it started last summer the Monitor’s weekly COVID tracker has sometimes had to present depressing data. Here’s the latest: At our current...
New Hampshire’s rules about interstate movement of ash logs or firewood, placed in an attempt to slow the spread of the invasive emerald ash border...
Earth’s rising fever hit or neared record hot temperature levels in 2020, global weather groups reported Thursday.While NASA and a couple of other...
When Mirka Zapletal was growing up, she knew of a few female scientists – Marie Curie and Jane Goodall to be exact. All the rest, she thought, were...
There are lots of good reasons to compost your food waste, but here’s one I hadn’t thought of: a dearth of dirt.“Topsoil is getting harder and...
If you are like me, you have wrestled with a lot of puzzles during these stay-at-home months.Jigsaw puzzles, crossword puzzles, Sudokus, chess...
Things are going to look different at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center this year, but this is a change that hasn’t been forced on us by the...