Topic: Ian Jones
CLAREMONT had the better of Beltana in their clash in the latest round of men's bowls at the weekend but not without a major challenge from the...
DESPITE facing the ''toughest time of our life'' amid slumping exports and job layoffs, Australia's car industry can survive by modernising and...
Feeling tired a lot more often lately, at times of the dayyou normally wouldn?t? Think of your cardiovascular system as the cellular transportation systemin your body. This is partly dueto an increase in HDL cholesterol as a result of the activity ...
Attracting the opposite sex is not the only reason some birds have elaborate head ornamentation. Charles Darwin suggested that elaborate display feathers were involved in sexual selection, and subsequent experiments confirmed his idea. In fact, elaborate feathers may have first evolved for ...
PARENTS are paying more than ?1,000 in legal fees as they fight for places at the best state schools. The recession is fuelling demand for grammar schools and highly rated comprehensives among London families who can no longer afford private schools ...
This week The Observer presents its alternative FTSE 350, which ranks the UK's listed companies on environmental and ethical criteria rather than size.The credit crunch has reset the business agenda, with rising unemployment and the prospect of recession replacing the ...
The most severe form of postnatal depression, which affects one in 500 new mothers and has been linked to suicide and infanticide, could be genetic, according to new research.It is also claimed, in a separate piece of research, that thousands more ...
Exploitation of North America's shale and tar-sand oil reserves could increase atmospheric CO2 levels by up to 15%, a new report from WWF-UK and the major UK financial group Co-Operative Financial Services (CFS) has warned.. Scraping the bottom of the barrel ...
As if we didn't have enough incentive to tackle climate change, Richard Branson is offering US$25 million to anyone who can come up with an effective means of removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Standing shoulder to shoulder, Al Gore ...
Last updated at 23:37pm on . British scientists are developing a vaccine to give lifelong protection against all strains of flu. Flu kills up to 12,000 Britons a year, many of them elderly. It is hoped the first human trials of ...