Latest Posts – Page 28 – CSIROscope

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Identifying insects: meet our mini moth investigator

Ying Luo has a passion for teeny tiny insects - from golden ants to micro moths.

Meet Australia’s team of robot ‘Olympians’

Meet Dr Navinda Kottege and the robot 'Olympians' representing Australia in the DARPA Subterranean Final Challenge.

Outlining the risk for Aussie shark extinction

A new action plan assesses the extinction risk for Australian sharks making it easier to protect them.

A century of livestock research highlights

We’ve helped create some of Australia’s great innovations in the livestock sector over the past 100 years.

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How Australian bushfires changed the ocean

It's hard to forget the harrowing bushfires of the 2019-20 summer. The destruction on land was evident but the bushfires had a surprising positive effect on the ocean.

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Future Protein Mission: growing protein to feed a growing world

We’ve launched our Future Protein Mission to create and value-add $10 billion worth of nutritious and high-quality protein products by 2030.

We analysed data from 29,798 clean-ups around the world to uncover some of the worst litter hotspots

Litter hotspots were associated with socioeconomic factors such as a concentration of built infrastructure, less national wealth and the level of lighting at night.

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Ru Paul flying for science

Together with our research partners, we have given scientific names to 150 new species in the past year.

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We’re giving it our best shot with vaccine selfies

If you haven’t shared a vaccine selfie, have you even been vaccinated?

How much will our oceans warm and cause sea levels to rise this century? We’ve just improved our estimate

A new analysis, using 15 years of autonomous underwater measurements and simulations from the latest global climate models, refined our estimate of future ocean warming and sea level rise.

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Meet Dr Hoskins: marine biologist come vertebrate ecologist

Meet Dr Andrew Hoskins and see how his research is helping Indigenous communities manage feral cattle on country. 

Sidelining delays in diagnosing concussion

We're working on a game-changing new device that could assist first responders to diagnose traumatic brain injuries on the spot.