Hen
**Pick up available from Burnside during the week, or Kirwee at all other times. *Hyline hens are proven to be far hardier and have a longer life expectancy in comparison to the standard shaver hen* **Hy-Line origins are to be found at the turn of...

Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein understood the problems of the cosmological constant three quarters of a century before dark energy�s discovery Credit: wikimedia commons/Ferdinand Schmutzer. Historic letters reveal Einstein and Schrodinger discussed the concept of dar...

DNA
Sperm contributes more to the next generation than just its DNA. Evolutionary ecologist Dr Angela Crean, of the University of New South Wales, and colleagues, report their findings in a recent issue of PLoS ONE. "Differences in sperm traits can infl...

Robots
1. Qrio - the all-dancing bipedal robot Qrio - short for quest for curiosity - is Sony’s 58-centimetre-tall, all-dancing, bipedal humanoid robot. Qrio is famous for such feats as conducting the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in a unique rendition of...

Calves
White Face Hereford X Calves, Choose from 20. Weaned ready to go to new home. Nait Tagged and numbered. B12 at 6 weeks - Take 1 or 20. Average 90kg plus, eating grass. They need a new home, hand reared in Reporoa, BOP....

Conure Parrot
Conures are wonderful pet birds that are members of the parrot family. The word "conure" means cone tail. Small to medium sized conure parrots are found in the new world, throughout the central and southern regions of the Americas. Conure parrots ar...

Money
They say �money makes the world go round,� and long before the invention of money as we know it, people were using goods such as salt, cattle and even weapons as forms of currency. From China�s �flying money� to Siberian �soft gold,� here are eight things...

Earth
"Anyone who thinks there isn�t a change in weather patterns is denying reality," says Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York state, which bore the brunt of the superstorm. Many climate scientists would agree with Cuomo when it comes to identifying the caus...

Exploring Mars
THE flying-saucer-shaped probe hurtles through space, firing thrusters and flinging off weights to point its heat shield forwards for the scorching trip through Mars’s atmosphere. Once it has slowed, the heat shield drops away and, 10 kilometres abov...

Aviation
Just over 100 years after the Wright brothers first flew into history, the burgeoning aviation industry is suffering growing pains. In 2003, 1.7 billion passengers criss-crossed the skies. If current trends continue, that number will rise to a staggering ...