In some contexts, agricultural land can be more valuable when left intact with all its biodiversity. The pathways to these contexts are manifold and challenging.
Miniature Lives — the latest book from CSIRO Publishing — lets families identify the miniature life around the home and backyard.
We're looking at coral reef spawning, one of the largest reproductive events, to better understand coral colonisation and growth.
You think you've got a difficult Easter egg hunt this year? We're searching for EMU eggs in about 70 million galaxies - it's going to be some egg-hausting work.
While we all take a few days off Easter, our friends over at Double Helix Magazine have put together an egg-straordinary list of cracking egg-speriments for kids that will help keep them busy over the holidays.
Australia's true mineral wealth is yet to be discovered, hidden deep beneath a thick cover of unconsolidated rock and soil, sediments and igneous rocks which have been laid down over hundreds of millions of years.
This month we celebrate a decade of research at the Ningaloo Marine Park. In this time the team have visited a set of 16 sites in and around Mandu almost every year, collecting valuable data that is helping us to gain a better understanding of the reef.
Our Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Victoria is home to a collection of historic artworks that encapsulate the great minds that walked our halls.
Scientists have discovered that a rare red bread mould with electro chemical properties that could one day be used to charge mobile phones.
Eating less meat isn't the only solution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from livestock.
We don't like to mince words around here, so our meat scientist and research team leader, Dr Aarti Tobin, has laid out the simple facts about different meat packaging.
Researchers from our National Collection have won the 5th J.O. Westwood Medal for Excellence in Taxonomy by the Royal Entomological Society for their three volume set on longhorn beetle.
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