Often known as stinging nettle, Urtica dioica is a plant that is highly recognized for its extensive medicinal usage. It is a bountiful provider of critical minerals such as iron, calcium ...

Currently, health supplements made from stinging nettle root are gaining attention due to their probable health advantages. Historically, the stinging nettle plant has served as a natural ...

In the latest twist to the decade-old robodebt saga, former High Court justice Geoffrey Nettle will run the ruler over the referrals. Many hope the move will eventually lead to the public tabling ...

The federal corruption watchdog has appointed former justice of the High Court of Australia, Geoffrey Nettle, to review its decision not to investigate any of the six people referred by the ...

In 1545, some weevils were arraigned before the ecclesiastical court in St Jean-de-Maurienne for despoiling the vineyards of St Julien. Counsel was appointed and preliminary arguments heard, until the ...

The World Nettle Eating Championships are being held at the Dorset Nectar Cider Farm in Waytown, near Bridport. Foolhardy participants have 30 minutes to eat as many leaves as possible before the ...

Environmental Science and Informatics Section (OIST) staff member Jake Lewis is working on taxonomy and evolution of weevils. Currently, he is using a wide variety of techniques like microscopy, ...

The cabbage seedpod weevil (Ceutorhynchus obstrictus) was introduced to North America from Europe about 70 years ago. The weevil was discovered in British Columbia in 1931, and from there, it ...

The weevils have evolved to only feed on the invasive floating pennywort South American weevils have been introduced to waterways in West Yorkshire in an effort to control the invasive floating ...

Mead’s thesis is that Russia, China, and Iran are acting as “revisionist” states, which he unfortunately dubs “the Central Powers”: Think of the Central Powers as an ‘axis of weevils’.