OCTOPUSES, as I wrote in my August 24 column, are highly intelligent and learn quickly.

IN THE sporadic appearances of summer last week, anglers and their boats went to sea, and even the ocean sunfish were basking, writes Donal Hickey

The scientist who led Britain’s contribution to the “book of life” – the blueprint of human DNA – was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine today.

Two British scientists and an American researcher today won this year’s Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology.