POLITICIANS run the economy for the benefit of the old, not the young. That's because the middle-aged and old are a bigger and more demanding group of voters. The less interest young people take in politics, the more they are likely to be...

The NSW Gov't has reversed its policy on solar power - meaning households with solar energy systems will soon be paid for all of the electricity they generate. The scheme is meant to run for 7yrs but Greens MP, John Kaye, says it needs to run for 20yrs

Nerves, the "perfect" target. Soon after the first organophosphate compound was invented at the German firm IG Farben, 1934, it was recognized it could be used as a pesticide or a chemical weapon-killing insects or people by jamming the nervous system.

Chronic low-grade exposure to organophosphates,which very easily absorb into the body thru skin and lungs, may have adverse effects on mental health. The study is by scientists at Kings College London and Tongde Hospital Zhejiang Province.

"Time: How your brain creates the fourth dimension is much weirder than we think it is."By understanding the mechanisms of our brain's clock, A team of scientists hope to learn ways of temporarily resetting its tick. This might improve our mental

Percy, a six-year-old domesticated cat from the British city of Scarborough, hops the local North Bay Railway to a nearby marine sanctuary, where he spends the day watching the fish and penguins...

Ecologist Aleki Taumoepeau was checking Wellington harbour for invasive plant species in March last year when the ring fell into three metres of water. "It flew off into the air ...it was like a scene from 'Lord of the Rings' in slow motion"

As Twitter went down for two days last week under a denial of service attack, the popular micro-publishing system got help from tech giant Google, co-founder "Biz" Stone told PBS. Twitter itself was not the target, turned out to be collateral damage...

The film, Food, Inc. is a must see event. From the website http://www.foodincmovie.com/ you read: Food, Inc. exposes America's industrialized food system and its effect on our environment, health, economy and workers' rights.

About 1,500 garden gnomes have been saved from the scrapheap.<br /> The collection of small cement people was left behind after the death of an elderly Cootamundra woman, with the new owners of her property not keen on keeping them hanging around