CSIRO and Cam McEvoy: a stroke of genius

What do CSIRO and Olympic swimmer Cam McEvoy have in common? A love of science of course! That's why we’re really excited to announce that Cam ‘The Professor’ McEvoy is going to be hanging out with us over the next year as our first ever ambassador. You could even say he’s our… Cambassador.

Eat, drink and feel our science

We work with awesome companies across private industry to get our science to you faster; to help your health, the environment and community you live in, and perhaps even create you a job.

Interronauts | Episode 9: Where brains store faces, ancient origins of humans, blood vessel algorithm, and Aus spider guide magic

Podcast Episode 9, Jesse and Sophie chat about how it is that we're able to remember (tens of) thousands of faces with relative ease, our new algorithm that can model blood vessel growth to pre-empt tumours, the ancient origins of Homo sapiens (100 000 years older than expected), and, they speak with Robert Whyte, co-author of A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia.

Interronauts | The CSIRO Podcast

Interronauts is our podcast that puts a rose-tinted magnifying glass to science news from around the world, Australia, and inside our organisation. Hosted by Jesse Hawley and Sophie Schmidt from our communications team.

ROI – Return on Innovation: a roadmap for collaboration

Do you ever wonder what you get back from investing your taxpayer dollars into our national science agency? Every few years we have an independent auditor review some of our projects and look at what value they’ve generated.

Top honours for our top scientists

Three of our best and brightest have been elected to the Australian Academy of Science for their outstanding contributions to research and ground-breaking discoveries.

Interronauts | Episode 7: Polyamorous hammerheads, fit devils fade fastest, renewable fuels, and a chat with the Jellyfish Goddess

Jesse and Sophie dive back into science news, discussing why the fittest Tassie devils succumb to facial tumours, how to transport renewable hydrogen gas, the benefits of multiple paternity in sharks, and they speak with Dr Lisa-ann Gershwin (the Jellyfish Goddess).

Interronauts | Episode 6: The Great Dying, anal mandrills, cutting cow methane w/ seaweed, & Neanderthal jewellery

Jesse, Sophie, and Adrian talk about how the world's worst extinction was caused by microbes, mandrills that don't groom those with sickly faeces, Neanderthal's making jewellery, and chat with Dr Rob Kinley about his research feeding seaweed to cows to neutralise their methane emissions. Methane special!

Qantas, mile-high WiFi and our Reuters innovation success

We’re sitting firmly in the Top 25 Global Innovators as a government research institute. But what does it mean to be an innovator and what does it take to innovate?

The Atlas of Living Australia: Collect it, log it, use it

The Atlas of Living Australia brings species information together from multiple sources (collections, universities and museums for example) to form the most comprehensive and accessible data set on Australia's biodiversity ever produced.

Interronauts | Episode 5: T. rex lovers, toxin-testing lab-on-a-glove, the largest dino print & Martian atmospheres

Jesse, Sophie, and Adrian talk about a newly discovered tyrannosaur skull that indicates sensitive lovers, Mars' lack of atmosphere, a handy new lab-on-a-glove, and they speak with Dr Steve Salisbury from the University of Queensland about his work on the 'Dinosaur Coast' in WA.

Interronauts | Episode 4: Carp herpes, glass tardigrades, nasal origins, splashier splashes, and sheep with Fitbits

Jesse, Sophie, and Adrian tackle the evolution of noses, talk tardigrades, climbing foxes, and speak with the researcher heading up the carp herpes program.