Last year, I was told by my energy supplier Octopus that I need to get a smart meter, as my existing meter is too old. I don't want to share data on my energy use, so I requested that any new smart ...

SOMETHING’S NOT RIGHT. YOU KNEW RIGHT AWAY? YES. WHEN GILLIAN REED OPENED HER JANUARY ELECTRIC BILL FROM NATIONAL GRID, SHE WAS JOLTED $645. AND WHAT’S YOUR TYPICAL ELECTRIC BILL IN THE WINTER?

In 2000, researchers described an odd fossil found not far from Chicago. It had a round body, finlike structures on one end and a tangle of arms. The fossil was classified as an octopus and named ...

Octopus sex hinges on a peculiar anatomical trick. In lieu of a penis, the male has a special mating arm called a hectocotylus. He feels around with it inside the female’s mantle—the bulbous structure ...

Last week, a public forum in Lee on Eversource’s rollout of smart meters left us with an all-too-familiar feeling that impassioned pushback to change is shrouding the relevant facts in a heated local ...

More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world’s oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn’t one at all. A recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal ...

An artistic rendering shows the mysterious animal, which researchers now say was a nautilus relative, in its prehistoric environment. University of Reading For more than a decade, an imposter may have ...

LONDON – A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after scientists found evidence that it’s not an octopus at all. Newly published research ...

A new study by Harvard biologists reveals how octopuses feel their way to potential mates with a "taste by touch" sensory system and can even couple at arm's length without actually seeing each other.

LINDSEY - The Village of Lindsey will receive a $131,092 loan from the Ohio Water Development Authority to modernize 202 water meters at homes and businesses. The OWDA noted the village will receive ...

Tons of operational modes. App intelligence skips runs when it’s wet or windy. Much more accurate water coverage than a traditional sprinkler. Larger areas won’t get 100 percent coverage, especially ...