In 2015, data centres drew 1,238 gigawatt hours from Ireland's metered electricity network, or 5 percent of all metered ...

Photo: Ken Chuang / Pexels. Image for illustrative purposes only. Two pieces of technology, pointed at each other. One is a ...

Barry Marshall’s self-experiment showed that a stomach bacterium could cause gastritis in a healthy person. The evidence linking that bacterium to ulcers came later, through studies of what happened ...

Decades of recycling scrap tires into highway pavement delivered measurable quiet—but the true story behind Arizona's experiment is stranger than the viral claims suggest.

California has declared a statewide El Niño emergency to pre-position sandbags, rock and fast-track coastal permits, after Hurricane Marie's swells left ten Dana Point beachfront homes red-tagged as ...

In Qingtian County in southeast Zhejiang, farmers put roughly forty grams of carp fry into a rice paddy about a week after transplanting the seedlings, and they’ve been doing it for at least twelve ...

North Island brown kiwi. Credit: The.Rohit / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0). In early September 2026, a field crew in the hills west of Wellington caught a North Island brown kiwi, unclipped a small ...

Two birds. That is where Michigan’s mute swan story begins. In 1919, a single pair was brought from Iowa into Charlevoix County, in the northern part of the state above Grand Traverse Bay. The ...

Island fox. Credit: USFWS Pacific Southwest Region (public domain). Fifteen foxes. That was the count on San Miguel Island at the end of the 1990s, on an island that had carried about 450 of them, a ...

Yellowstone Delta Pack wolf. Credit: National Park Service (public domain). Forty-one wild wolves went into Yellowstone National Park in three winters, and in the winter before the first crate opened ...

Almost all the electricity a data center pulls off the grid comes back out as heat. One overview of the field puts the figure at roughly 90%. A data center is, in effect, a very expensive radiator.

Along stretches of the American east coast, whole stands of trees have gone the colour of old bone. Bare branches, no leaves, roots sitting in brackish water, dead for years and in no particular hurry ...