MANCHESTER — A Cambodian sex-trafficking survivor whose captor chopped off her left hand couldn’t contain her smile as she was fitted with a prosthetic Monday at Next Step Bionics and Prosthetics.
DNA testing giant Ancestry.com LLC is entering the growing and potentially lucrative field of genetic health screenings with a strategy that's markedly different from that of its biggest competitor.
Ruby Ardolf, 14, has her own YouTube channel, featuring familiar aspects of a teen's daily life and merchandise with messages of kindness and inclusion.
A Qantas airplane took off from New York on Friday night and didn’t stop until it reached Sydney just over 19 hours later, setting a record for the world’s longest nonstop commercial passenger flight.
MANCHESTER — Now that the world has the Impossible Whopper, will the impossible liver be far behind?
How often do you look at your phone each day, checking Twitter, Instagram, Slack or whatever emails might have come in over the past five minutes?
The Center for Life Management relaunched its transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy program at its Salem facility this past summer after a yearslong hiatus.
MANCHESTER — Comcast is increasing download speeds for Xfinity residential internet customers in New Hampshire and 13 other states in its Northeast Division.
Sally Balch Hurme’s husband, Arthur, has dementia. “I’m very sensitive to respecting his dignity and letting him be as independent and autonomous as possible,” she says.
MANCHESTER — A virtual dog fence, enviro-friendly wallpaper, an industrial robot, and two software systems that manage communications or track trouble spots make up this year’s crop of Granite State technology stars.
BALTIMORE — The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded Monday to three physician-scientists from the United States and Britain — William G. Kaelin Jr., Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza — “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”
After a rigorous search in the rapidly melting Siberian Arctic, researchers on the world’s biggest North Pole expedition have finally found an ice floe on which to set up camp.
The law neither requires nor prohibits their use by local departments, but it lays down provisions about training, when videotaping can take place, what happens to the data and how long it can be stored.
New Hampshire’s information technology chief executive is reminding state and municipal government employees that "all it takes is one click to shut down a city."
LONDON — One hundred scientists who gave fruit flies a triple drug combination treatment and found that it extended their lives by almost 50% say their work offers clues on how to fight aging in people.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has unveiled the latest iteration of his space company’s newly assembled Starship, outlining a speedy development timeline for the centerpiece vehicle of SpaceX’s quest to launch humans to the moon and Mars.
Gov. Chris Sununu and the University and Community College Systems of New Hampshire have collaborated to provide free tuition for a full-time semester at certain universities and colleges for the seniors competing on the winning team.
Dan Guillou finally decided to close up his welding business, in large part because he simply could not find people qualified to do the job.
As the United States enters its coldest season, Antarctica’s summer gets into full swing. By November, the sun shines on the ice-covered continent day and night. When it sets in mid-February, Antarctica enters winter, where it’s dark for six months. Because of this, summer is Antarctica’s bu…
The internet gawks each time Boston Dynamics releases a video showing its eye-catching humanoid robot, Atlas, performing newly acquired acrobatic tricks.
If David Rycyna were to bring the business back to China, where he first came up with the idea for his company, he says he would have no tariffs to pay.
Entrepreneur Jonathon Perrelli is introducing an electronic smart bottle that he hopes will do for hydration what Fitbit has done for walking.
We're calling an end to a golden rule of tech: You no longer have to upgrade your iPhone every two years. Three will do just fine.
Facebook said Friday it has suspended “tens of thousands” of apps that may have mishandled users’ personal data, sparking fresh concerns about the tech giant’s privacy practices and exposing it to another potential standoff with U.S. regulators.
The social network also said such content will become harder to search for on Instagram.
Sales of premium audio equipment that allows listeners to fully appreciate the rarefied quality of analog records have been experiencing a boom as a certain segment of music fans rediscovers a passion for high-fidelity sound.
A Sacramento, Calif., woman went to the emergency room with numbness in her hands and feet, slurred speech and trouble walking in July. The 47-year-old mother of five wasn’t having a stroke or a heart attack. She was suffering from mercury poisoning from a tainted anti-wrinkle cream imported…
In the dim, red light of an alien sun, scientists have found the first evidence for water in the atmosphere of a rocky planet - offering a tantalizing new target in the search for life in the universe.
CONCORD — Attorney General Gordon MacDonald announced Monday that New Hampshire has joined attorneys general for 50 U.S. states and territories in an antitrust investigation of Google.
NORTH HAVERHILL — Of Grafton County’s 39 communities, 29 have police departments and only a dozen are staffed 24-7, which makes the work of the Grafton County Sheriff’s Department’s Computer Forensics Unit all the more vital, Sheriff Jeff Stiegler says.
By January 2008, it was clear that something was deeply amiss in the global economy. The unemployment rate was creeping upward. The Federal Reserve had slashed interest rates by the largest amount in 25 years. And financial markets around the world were tumbling.
MANCHESTER — The Dyn sign atop a Millyard building is long gone, replaced by that of a tech giant whose investment in Manchester appears to be waning.
Last year, after placing an order for Tesla's recently unveiled Model 3, Amie Dansby began to ponder an ambitious idea.
Hurricane Dorian is taking extreme to the next level. With sustained winds of 185 mph Sunday afternoon and evening, the Category 5 storm has risen to the top of the charts among the most powerful tropical systems ever observed in the Atlantic Ocean.
It was a life-or-death situation for young Matthew Evangelista. His mother, Helen, had nowhere to turn.
DURHAM — The head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration got a first-hand look Thursday at the Space Science Center at the University of New Hampshire, which was recently awarded a $107.9 million contract — the largest NASA contract in the university’s history.
Last year, after placing an order for Tesla's recently unveiled Model 3, Amie Dansby began to ponder an ambitious idea.
WASHINGTON — Scientists on Wednesday announced the landmark discovery in Ethiopia of a nearly complete skull of an early human ancestor that lived 3.8 million years ago, a species boasting an intriguing mixture of apelike and humanlike characteristics.
A newly discovered bloodsucking, olive-green leech with three jaws and as many as 59 teeth has been found about 40 miles outside of downtown Washington.
Five years after Congress passed a law to reduce unnecessary MRIs, CT scans and other expensive diagnostic imaging tests that could harm patients and waste money, federal officials have yet to implement it.
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