Where there’s tweets there’s fire

By Arwen Cross and Carrie Bengston LOL cats and celebrities might be our favourite things to talk about on twitter, […]

What are the future megatrends all Australians need to know about?

By Megan Clark, CSIRO If hindsight is such a wonderful thing, surely foresight would be better. What if we could […]

Houston, we have a check in: Space 2.0

(This article first appeared in The Conversation.) Social media is the new frontier for space exploration, shaping an age of […]

International recognition for WLAN technology

The CSIRO team that invented a faster system for wireless local area networking – which later became the foundation of […]

A little bit of robot love

Perfect Match’s Dexter would have to be up there with the favourites. You know, the 1980s robot that, long before […]

Titanic sunk by Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

By Sarah Wood This week is the 100th anniversary of Titanic’s maiden voyage and her sinking. While there will be […]

Korean connection makes an 8000-km telescope

Australian and Korean radio telescopes have been linked together for the first time, forming a system acting as a gigantic […]

Scientists set a smokin’ 10 gigabits record

We know the world is getting faster and we want things NOW, but this is ridiculous. In 2006 a team […]

Boss takes tracking technology for field test

In January about 8000 cyclists took to the roads around Adelaide in the Bupa Challenge Tour at the 2012 Santos […]

Students put theories to the test

A CSIRO Summer Vacation student has uncovered details of how galaxies and their magnetic fields evolve together — one of […]

Speedy science in a teraflop

Some people dream of making Who magazine’s Sexiest People list. Others like to climb the ranks of the Forbes Rich […]

Crowds and clouds

“With all due respect, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority – if you […]