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Calling wanna-be time travellers

By Susan Burchill Sheldon and Leonard do it and our bets are you do it all the time too. Think […]

The Plague Soldier Beetle isn’t nearly as bad as it sounds

It's still a mystery why the green and yellow Plague Soldier Beetle, found in temperate southeastern Australia, occasionally builds up to massive numbers.

1,000,000 man hours… that’s a LOT!

How safe do we want CSIRO projects? Really safe, for everyone. A lot of effort has been put into making […]

Things we like

Did you see #Hendra trending on Twitter last week? Once we contained our excitement, we noticed some other pieces of […]

Work on the back deck sections moving along

Work is continuing on blocks 119A and 119B for RV Investigator. These two blocks make up the back area of the ship […]

No sh*t – a new test for bowel cancer

We have been working on a more effective and reliable blood-based test for bowel cancer.

Game on: top athletes to be tracked by our tech

What do Newcastle FC, the Hockeyroos, Melbourne Storm, Sydney Swans and the gold medal-winning British Rowing team have in common? […]

What do the Indian and tropical Pacific Oceans have in common with a jug of boiling water?

If you want to know more, listen to Dr Bernadette Sloyan talking to ABC Drive Presenter, Vicki Kerrigan: A few weeks […]

Treetops to laptops – science and Google keep an eye on things

Detailed satellite imagery about Australian landscapes will soon be only a button push away for land managers in community and […]

How heavy was a Brachiosaur? Why is A4 paper the size that it is? Our new blog, Helix @ CSIRO, […]

The drop keels are underway!

Work has begun on RV Investigator’s amazing drop keels. A few months ago CSIRO’s ECOS Magazine published an article about the scientific […]

Desert knowledge not lost on us

By Oona Nielssen You could spend years in Australia’s Central Desert and still understand very little about its ecology. And […]