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2018: a CSIRO year in review

We've been hard at work this year solving some of the world’s greatest challenges. Here are the top stories that got your attention in 2018.

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Where are all the women in STEM?

Australia needs to step up its game with getting more women into the STEM workforce. Some of our Superstars of STEM are helping do just that.

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24 things you didn’t know about CSIRO (that could help you win the next trivia comp)

We like to help solve big problems. If that problem happens to be a tough question about us at your next trivia night, we've got your back.

Pen to pixel, 1983–2018 in scientific illustration

Just like the ever-forking numbers of insect species branching off and evolving, so too, do the techniques of the art world ramify in their attempt to capture the beauty of the natural world.

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Interronauts | CSIRO podcast Ep 22: Purple Earth and plants’ war for the rainbow, and an attack on titan

This episode Jesse talks about early Earth which may have been purple, two new species of tiny jellies, white rice with brown rice benefits, smell-based movie ratings, and the demise of the world's largest individual.

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Interronauts | CSIRO podcast Ep 21: Science of indecision, helping endangered fish with hands and saws for faces

Jesse and Sarah discuss indecision, a tiny imperilled handfish, Australia's roadmap towards a future in space, AND they chat with CSIRO researcher Dr Rich Pillans about the seven metre leviathan: the largetooth sawfish.

White line fever: how road markings save lives

If life is a highway, would you want to ride it all night long if there were no road markings to safely guide your journey?

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Interronauts | CSIRO podcast Ep 20: Teenage mutagenic-ingesting turtles (how I gave up balloons)

On this episode of Interronauts Kate and Gavin join Jesse to talk about scourges of our times: marine debris and antibiotic resistance, as well as science's endeavours to set us on the straight and narrow, the clean and biotic.

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Interronauts | CSIRO podcast Ep 19: Killer T: immunotherapy returns, hydrogen at the bowser, ancient cheese and vego sharks

Kate, Gavin, and Jesse talk about a new treatment for pancreatic cancer using killer cells, our new vehicles powered not on gasoline but hydrogen, and a science news digest about the oldest cheese, neutron stars, omnivorous sharks, and moooore.

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Interronauts | CSIRO podcast Ep 18: Minority Report billboards, iron-less cotton, and a fortnightly science digest

Technophile Ketan teaches technophobe Jesse about big data and the big burden it bears, robot marketers, fingerprint-swiping hackers, this fortnight in science news, and our new cotton that doesn't need ironing.

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Interronauts | CSIRO podcast Ep 17: Mm, I get high-rises with a little help from my fronds, Martian lakes, microbial census, and swiped IDs

Take a walk on the mild side with Jesse and Rif as they chat about smartphones swiping your ID by gesture, the vitality of Australia's marine microbes, Mars' lake, and the unforeseen and multifarious benefits of time in nature.

The key to a STEM career? Curiosity, persistence and a knack for problem solving!

Google Research Fellow, ICT Student of the Year and advocate for science, technology engineering and maths (STEM) careers, Samy Movassaghi tells us a little about her job and how she ended up working as a STEM professional.

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