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Scientist Hugh Goold has completed the final stage of an international effort to create a synthetic yeast genome.

Hugh once delivered cheese to the Queen. Now he’s built the key to synthetic life

The first-ever synthetic multicellular organism is ready to come to life after a Sydney breakthrough 10 years in the making.

  • Angus Dalton

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Senator Cory Booker spoke for more than 25 hours without leaving the flood.

‘Urological mystery’: The gargantuan strain Booker’s 25-hour speech put on his body

Sore feet, back pain, a neglected bladder, sleep-deprivation: how physiological effects would have plagued the record-breaking senator.

  • Angus Dalton
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An alternating current affair

It’s the measure of Nik and Mick.

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Reproducing for rapid charging

What came first, the Tesla or the egg?

Putricia bloomed on January 23.

In extraordinary timing, a second corpse flower has bloomed in Sydney

The incredible botanical double-act comes just two and a half weeks after the flower named Putricia became a global sensation. And this one’s stinkier.

  • Angus Dalton
After 1.7 million online views and at least in person 27,000 visitors, curtains fell on Putricia’s famous livestream at midnight.

The curtains have closed on Putricia. Here’s what she looks like now

The public can no longer see Sydney’s celebrated corpse flower. But what happens next is extraordinary.

  • Angus Dalton
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The fangs of a funnel web.

A new species of Sydney funnel-web has been discovered – and it’s a monster

The world’s most dangerous spider just got deadlier. And they’re on the move, with a baby already bitten this season.

  • Angus Dalton
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Getting the drop on territorial bears

And Petersham locals get cocky.

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Hitting the mammalogy paws button

While others put Granny up against the wall.

The newly identified tropical pitcher plant Nepenthes pongoides.

Hidden deep in a jungle, there is a big, furry, shellfish-munching plant. An Australian found it

An expert in carnivorous plants says it’s the first time he’s seen one that eats shellfish.

  • Carolyn Webb

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