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David Malin Awards: Astrophotography is looking up!

Winners of the David Malin Awards, Australia’s most prestigious astrophotography awards, have been announced for 2021.

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Dairy without the cow

A new company is using our science and innovation to make animal-free dairy products a reality.

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Meet our bio-revolution researcher: Dr Claudia Vickers

We're on the cusp of a bio-revolution to manufacture more sustainable and beneficial products. Dr Claudia Vickers is helping us unlock this potential.

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Spotify playlist: The sounds of NAIDOC Week

As NAIDOC Week wraps up, we’re unwrapping our amazing Spotify playlist, NAIDOC Week: Heal Country!

Four easy ways to ditch plastic for Plastic Free July

In recent years, many of us have banned the bag and canned the cup. But this Plastic Free July our people are encouraging everyone to move closer to a plastic-free lifestyle.

Be AmAZed! In the wild with our author Andrea

We chat to Andrea Wild, author of a new book packed with fabulous facts about plants, animals and microbes that's sure to inspire young minds.

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How do we enable SMEs to collaborate?

The voice of over 800 small to medium enterprises (SMEs) were heard in one of Australia's largest ever surveys about collaboration.

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From awareness to action: practical ways to contribute to reconciliation

It’s National Reconciliation Week and we caught up with some of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander team members to ask their views on this year’s theme ‘More than a word. Reconciliation takes action’.

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Meet our researcher: Dr David McJannet

Australia is the world’s driest inhabited continent. It’s also one of the sunniest places on the planet. That means someone like hydrologist Dr David McJannet gets to do some incredibly interesting work.

Dr Chenoa Tremblay sitting with students in a classroom.

Volunteers makes a world of difference in STEM education

  Dr Chenoa Tremblay is an astronomer working at CSIRO as a Postdoctoral Fellow in dark magnetism. She uses supercomputers […]

Vale Joy Bear: remembering the scientist behind petrichor

Isabel 'Joy' Bear passed away on 8 April 2021. We celebrate her contributions to our organisation and science, including describing petrichor.

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How can we commercialise to innovate?

We’re celebrating the launch of Main Sequence's second fund, raising an impressive $250 million. Even more exciting is the commercialisation model we’re focusing on with Fund 2, which we’re calling ‘Venture Science’.