A good day out back-country fishing despite some patchy weather for the Johns from USA. The guys managed to land around half of the 14 decent sized trout caught. The guys I think were both shocked by the power of
MONDAY 14th JULY 2008Copthorne Hotel & Resort Solway Park MASTERTON 10am - 12 NZ Queen Bee Producer Association General Meeting followed by AGM 1pm - 3pm NZ Honey Packers & Exporters Association AGM3.15 - 5pm NZ Honey Bee Pollination Association
Brain-imaging studies performed in animals provide researchers with clues about why an increasingly popular recreational drug that causes hallucinations and motor-function impairment in humans is abused. Using trace amounts of Salvia divinorum -- also known as "salvia," a Mexican mint
Shape matters, even in hearing. Specifically, it is the shape of the cochlea -- the snail-shell-shaped organ in the inner ear that converts sound waves into nerve impulses that the brain deciphers -- which proves to be surprisingly important. A
Sometimes the diagnosis of episodes of illness in schizophrenia, rotatory vertigo, or reading and writing deficits needs electro-oculography (EOG), performed using a special medical apparatus. Researchers have developed spectacles that could in future make this technique portable.
Some argue that happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. This maxim sounds reasonable enough, but can it be tested, and if so, is it true?
How frequently do doctors misdiagnose patients? While research has demonstrated that the great majority of medical diagnoses are correct, the answer is probably higher than patients expect and certainly higher than doctors realize. A collection of articles and commentaries sheds
Higher wealth is linked with a lower risk of stroke in Americans between the ages of 50 and 64, but does not predict strokes in those over age 65, researchers reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
A new drug discovery tool has been developed for Alzheimer's disease. An abnormal form of tau protein, as it occurs in Alzheimer's disease, can now be produced in very simple cell models. Tau proteins are a family of neuron-specific proteins
Psychologists find evidence that it's not. People act in their own best interests, according to traditional views of how and why we make the decisions that we do. However, psychologists have recently found evidence that this assumption is not necessarily
The idea of going blind is a frightening thought for anyone. Recent work to restore visual function during retinal degenerative diseases resulting in complete loss of photoreceptors that enable vision, has created hope that retinal diseases leading to blindness may
ARCHAEOLOGISTS will this summer excavate fossils of another giant sea reptile on the Arctic island of Svalbard. Last summer the remains of the world's largest Pliosaurus was excavated, reports The Norway Post.
SCOTTISH Euro MP, Struan Stevenson today condemned the "red tape" that is proving a barrier to growth within Europe's fish farming industry and called for the regulations that govern it to be simplified. Otherwise, he says, the sector is in
SCOTTISH Fisheries Minister Richard Lochhead is to meet representatives from across the Scottish fishing industry at Scottish Fishermen's Federation headquarters in Aberdeen on Monday May 12 to hear details of the acute difficulties being faced by the Scottish fishing industry
