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The phenomenon that causes people being observed to react differently, the Hawthorne effect, was recently applied to energy conservation in a study by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University. The result of the study was that  households reduced monthly electric use by 2.7 percent on average when they were told their energy use would be monitored.…

Happy St Patrick's Day, kittens! St Paddy is the patron saint of Ireland, and also the patron saint of engineers, which is as close as the Catholic Church gets to recognizing nerds, officially. He was also the first to use the shamrock as a metaphor to explain Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. Sure and we're…

At the turn of the millennium, Yahoo! was the most visited site on the web. In Web 1.0 terms, Yahoo! was like Google and Facebook combined. So...

The decision reached by Ecuadorians to put an end to oil production in Yasuní National Park, in a popular referendum in August, was a triumph for civil society and a global milestone in environmental

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Penn Power work will help prevent or minimize outages for more than 15,000 customers NEW CASTLE, Pa., Oct. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FirstEnergy Corp. subsidiary Penn Power has completed an expansion...

Remote warfare reshapes combat, but operators behind screens face deep psychological battles as well.

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VDOT has updated its list of highway work that may affect traffic in the Staunton District during the coming weeks.

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is reducing poverty in Zimbabwe by planting 40,000 fruit trees across the nation.