Tag: COWS

Oddly enough, cow manure could be a possible solution for technology companies looking for cheaper real estate and electricity. According to The New York Times, a paper written by Hewlett-Packard engineers proposes that tech companies build facilities near dairy farms and use biogas, which is a type of methane created from cow manure, to power their server farms. HP claims that 10,000 cows could ...

Yes, you read that headline correctly. Somebody took the time to study cows using Google Earth and found out they tend to point north. It isn't just a coincidence, though – bovines actually have an innate sense of direction that's in tune with Earth's magnetic fields. Scientists from Germany's University of Duisburg-Essen used Google satellite images to study hundreds of herds of the ...