Julie Carr Smyth Latest articles by Julie Carr Smyth 'Vampire Electronics' Suck Energy By Julie Carr Smyth published 30 October 07 About 5 percent of electricity used in the U.S. goes to standby power. Energy Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter nowGet the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox.Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors LATEST ARTICLES1Catquistadors: Oldest known domestic cats in the US died off Florida coast in a 1559 Spanish shipwreck 2'Vaccine rejection is as old as vaccines themselves': Science historian Thomas Levenson on the history of germ theory and its deniers3Astronomers discover giant 'bridge' in space that could finally solve a violent galactic mystery4James Webb Space Telescope finds a wild black hole growth spurt in galaxies at 'cosmic noon'5'Rabbits sometimes make mistakes or grow lazy. That's when the tortoise seizes its chance': Chinese scientists make nuclear power breakthrough using abandoned US research
'Vampire Electronics' Suck Energy By Julie Carr Smyth published 30 October 07 About 5 percent of electricity used in the U.S. goes to standby power.
