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- 21/10/3 21:30
One year after Newfoundland and Labrador implemented a ban on retail plastic bags, many shoppers are in favour, but at least one grocery store misses the old...
15 articles from SUNDAY 3.10.2021
One year after Newfoundland and Labrador implemented a ban on retail plastic bags, many shoppers are in favour, but at least one grocery store misses the old...
Alberta game ranchers are lobbying governments in the province in a renewed attempt to legalize hunt...
Radio astronomer who won the Nobel prize for physics for his role in the discovery of pulsarsIn 1967, a team led by the radio astronomer Antony Hewish, who has died aged 97, discovered pulsars, rapidly pulsating radio sources that turned out to be due to rotating, magnetised neutron stars, the ultra-dense collapsed remnants of massive stars. This was one of the most exciting astronomical events of...
Fears the indoor socialising will spread virus in UK; Israel says people only eligible for green pass if they have received a booster jab. This live blog has closed – for the latest on the global Covid situation, please see our dedicated pageUK might not be over the worst, scientists warnNew Zealand widens Covid lockdown as Delta spreadsUK to slash international travel ‘red list’ to just...
University of Waterloo's Autonomous Vehicle Research and Intelligence Lab has partnered with vehicle supplier Magna International for project that will look at how to make automated vehicles safer and more...
My father, Jim Townsley, who has died aged 85, was a gentle, generous and thoughtful man who spent his working life as an industrial chemist. In retirement, his aptitude for listening, understanding and supporting the emotional needs of others found expression through voluntary work as a trained counsellor.Born in Ilford, east London, to Jim Sr, a post office worker, and Gertrude (nee Knight), a...
Iain Phillips's love of insects is infectious. Saskatchewan's senior ecologist for aquatic macroinvertebrates has important advice about seeing the beauty in the little...
The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back its first images of Mercury, the nearest planet to the Sun, the European Space Agency said Saturday.
Surveys can help us understand how the pandemic is influenced by our choicesRecent queues for fuel have shown the consequences of abrupt changes in behaviour. Almost as sudden were the changes around the first lockdown in March 2020, when close meetings between people plummeted by about three-quarters. We know this through the CoMix contact survey from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical...