Professor James Dale’s bananas are the first genetically modified fruit approved for commercial growth. But would you eat one?
Scientists are warning of a return to the “dark ages” of medicine,where minor infections kill,and routine surgery turns deadly.
Weird things can happen to the body in space – not least from abrupt changes in gravity as well as weightlessness,radiation and being in close quarters. How do astronauts do it?
Hundreds of different types of fungi and bacteria have been caught for the first time in the atmosphere and researchers think they know where they come from.
NSW is blighted by 4000 mobile black spots,including one that seems to rob commuters of cellular data as trains cross the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Legislation to allow a pill-testing trial will be introduced to Victorian parliament on Tuesday. The government wants the first mobile sites up and running for the summer festival season.
Hypnosis is often associated with silly stunts,but medicine is now starting to embrace it,spurred on by studies showing it can help with chronic pain – even if we don’t understand why.
It may sound like magic,but using basic optics,scientists have taken a major step in the long quest to see what’s under the skin without a scalpel.
The bone-crushing fossilised jaws were one of three Tasmanian tiger ancestors uncovered by palaeontologists,amid a contentious effort to resurrect the marsupial carnivore.
Want to live 20,30,50 years beyond the norm? Some with wealth and ambition are eagerly pursuing that dream to the extreme.
What if a mouse couldn’t smell the wheatgerm it feeds on? What if a feral cat couldn’t smell the native bird it hunted?