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Tell me s’more: Five alternate ways to charge your mobile phone

In 1973 when Motorola engineer Martin Cooper created the first mobile phone prototype it weighed around 1.1 kilos (iPhone 6 […]

RV Investigator

Welcome to Port Celebrations for RV Investigator!

We are pleased to advise that a date has been set for the official Welcome to Port Celebrations on Friday […]

Bat’s immunity may hold key to preventing future Ebola outbreaks

By Michelle Baker, CSIRO Bats are the natural host species for Ebola and a variety of viruses, many of which […]

A Nickel for your vote

Last week we brought you bees with backpacks… but this week we’re bringing nickel back. Please, don’t be scared – […]

World Food Day – let’s make it every day

It’s World Food Day, and this year’s focus is on the role smallholder farmers play in feeding the world. Food […]

Sounding out the ghosts of the depths

Sounding out the ghosts of the depths.

Plants doing the photosynthesis thing

Plants absorb more CO2 than we thought, but …

By Pep Canadell, CSIRO Through burning fossil fuels, humans are rapidly driving up levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, […]

MV Lake Illawarra wreck

Sounding out the ghosts of the depths

On-board the RV Investigator, our Geophysical Survey and Mapping team have successfully mapped the MV Lake Illawarra and the Tasman Bridge decades after the disaster that brought them to the depths of the Derwent

Cool science education worksheets and animations for school kids!

We've got some great science education activities and animations for school kids, all about the new Marine National Facility research vessel, […]

Taking CSG measurements.

Taking a measured approach to CSG

CSIRO through the Gas Industry Social and Environmental Research Alliance (GISERA) is undertaking a comprehensive study of methane seeps in […]

So what science can be done on board Investigator?

Australia's new Marine National Facility research vessel, Investigator, is so jam packed full of scientific equipment we have produced some fact […]

Palm civets can be intermediate hosts of SARS. Kabacchi/Flickr, CC BY

We still don’t know if domestic animals can spread Ebola

By Michelle Baker, CSIRO Spanish authorities have euthanised the dog of Madrid nurse Teresa Romero Ramos, who contracted Ebola. The […]