Posts by CSIRO

Five tips for NASA from Aussie kids

Great minds from NASA, Johns Hopkins and the CSIRO are agonising over the New Horizons mission to find out more about Pluto. Seems like they should have spoken to these young students, they seem to know all about Pluto.

GovHack: All your data are belong to us

Groups of skilled hackers are congregating in cities around Australia, and they're hell-bent on forcing government data to do their bidding, including ours. They're participants in this year’s GovHack competition.

Pluto pointers: nine bite-size facts about the dwarf planet

With the New Horizons spacecraft edging closer and closer to its rendezvous with Pluto, we thought it might be helpful to clear a few things up. Just how far is it from the Sun? What's the temperature like? And is it really a planet?

We’re kneading our way to bread that lowers cholesterol

We're using gene technology and plant breeding techniques to develop new superior wheat varieties that lower your cholesterol.

Stop the dust: how we’re avoiding Mad Max’s Fury Road

In Mad Max: Fury Road, Max announces that his world is fire and blood. He left out one thing: dust. Like the post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max, this wide brown land of ours is dusty. This makes for an impressive backdrop for the movies, but the realities of large dust storms is anything but fiction. Dust events can cause significant damage to crops, community health and the environment, which is why we’re on the case to monitor the soil and manage the risk.

Solar field with sun reflected in mirror

Taking our solar technology to the land of the rising sun

Fresh from setting a solar powered supercritical steam world record, our team continue to see great demand for our heliostat technology. After setting up in Cyprus, we're now taking our tech to the ‘land of the rising sun’, Japan. But it's not just our overseas partners who are benefiting from our solar expertise, this project is also making a difference to the local car industry.

The Showdown: Total Wellbeing and the 5:2 Diet

Many fans of the 5:2 intermittent fasting diet have experienced weight loss success, and preliminary scientific studies into the diet are validating their results. But there is still a lot to learn about what intermittent fasting means for long-term health and eating habits. Today we take a look at the pros and cons of the 5:2.

How do we sleep while the kitchen’s burning?

With the first day of winter comes a heightened risk of house fires. We look at a kitchen fire in action, plus we share our top tips to prevent house fires.

And Kevin makes six

Young Aussie scientists on the international stage

Did you know that there's a 'world cup' of student science and engineering comps? 1700 high school students from 78 countries compete for around $4 million in scholarships and prizes at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Find out how we helped five students, and one kangaroo, get there.

How do your eating habits measure up?

Do you you think you eat enough vegetables to shame a goat? Or are you an unabashed chocoholic, throwing caution to the wind when it comes to all things cocoa? If you're ready to make an honest assessment about your eating habits, then we've got the tool for you.

A new Atlantis

Wouldn’t it be good if there were a spare ecosystem we could try things out on before making decisions? That's why we built Atlantis, a marine ecosystem modelling tool for testing out resource and planning decisions.

The CSIRO research team

Business beams with new solar cells

We’re working with Dyesol to help them become the first to commercialise a new, flexible, cost-effective kind of solar cell based on perovskite material.