Stinging plant offers insights into preventing pain

Stinging plant offers insights into preventing pain

Qld researchers have discovered that a New Zealand stinging nettle targets the same pain receptors as other plants and animals,giving clues on how to block pain.

  • byStuart Layt

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Tigers at the dentist,chimp check-ups:Inside Taronga’s little-known vet hospitals

Tigers at the dentist,chimp check-ups:Inside Taronga’s little-known vet hospitals

Penguins pooing plastic,turtles caught in fishing line,burnt koalas:Taronga Zoo’s vets work hard – and their behind-the-scenes status looks set to change.

  • byAmanda Hooton
Scientists uncover the origin of mammal milestone:warm-bloodedness

Scientists uncover the origin of mammal milestone:warm-bloodedness

Scientists have answered a longstanding question about mammalian evolution to determine when the integral trait of warm-bloodedness first emerged.

  • byWill Dunham
‘A complicated murder mystery’:What’s killing Sydney’s frogs?

‘A complicated murder mystery’:What’s killing Sydney’s frogs?

As hundreds of people report sick and dead frogs across Australia,scientists are yet to find the cause of a second wave in what they call a “frog pandemic”.

  • byAngus Thomson
‘Magnificent’:World’s biggest bacterium found in Caribbean

‘Magnificent’:World’s biggest bacterium found in Caribbean

The thin white filament,approximately the size of a human eyelash,is “by far the largest bacterium known to date”.

  • byChristina Larson
‘Superpower’ bacteria discovered in Antarctica

‘Superpower’ bacteria discovered in Antarctica

Bacteria discovered in the deep south have genes that give them antiobiotic and antimicrobial resistance and could spread out from polar regions.

  • byFabian Cambero
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Vanilla not so boring after all - it’s the world’s top smell

Vanilla not so boring after all - it’s the world’s top smell

From hunter-gatherers to city dwellers,study shows that all groups like and dislike the same scents.

  • byJoe Pinkstone
Professor’s pandemic project rewrites origin of mysterious monotremes

Professor’s pandemic project rewrites origin of mysterious monotremes

Some people baked bread or wrote during the pandemic lockdown. Scientist Tim Flannery cleared up the origins of some of Australia’s most iconic species.

  • byStuart Layt
Dead as a dodo ... but maybe not for much longer

Dead as a dodo ... but maybe not for much longer

Genome sequencing tests suggest the extinct flightless bird could be brought back to life,say scientists.

  • bySarah Knapton
After counting Earth’s trees,scientists say thousands more species to be discovered

After counting Earth’s trees,scientists say thousands more species to be discovered

Researchers have unveiled the world’s largest forest database,showing that 2000 more species of tree are to be discovered across Australia and Oceania alone.

  • byWill Dunham
Scientists discover the reason why whales don’t choke

Scientists discover the reason why whales don’t choke

It has long been a mystery how lunge feeding whales draw in huge quantities prey-filled water without flooding their respiratory tracts.

  • bySam Jones