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

Eleven years of surveys on one family-owned field suggest species-rich meadow can return to former farmland without a seed packet, though the researchers cannot yet explain how several of its rarer ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Two hundred and sixty men walked into an office toilet in the north of the Netherlands and, with no ceremony whatsoever, became a very small power station. Their contributions went down a dedicated ...

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 ...

Buried under the ice in West Antarctica was a long core of mud and rock containing shell fragments and remains of marine organisms that need sunlight to live. Those remains indicate that parts of the ...

An eye-tracking record of one reader: circles mark fixations, lines mark the saccades between them. From a 2005 speed-reading study at the Humanistlaboratoriet, Lund University. Image by Lucs-kho via ...