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Powerful plants and cosmic wonders: meet our honourable scientists

Meet the three CSIRO researchers who have contributed game-changing science, rounding out the Australia Day Honours list this year.

Angelina Arora standing in front of her project poster.

Three teens changing the world through STEM

This year’s BHP Foundation Science and Engineering Award finalists have their eyes set on changing the world through medicine, environmental science and engineering.

Are tropical holidays bad for your evolution?

New research shows the history of our deep ocean is written in the stars.

A top-down view of a round, polished piece of yellow amber on a white background. There is a small weevil trapped in the amber, but details are too small to make out. Light can be seen reflecting from the rounded surface of the amber.

Weevils in amber reveal ancient ecosystems

100 million-year-old weevils trapped in amber are helping piece together earth’s ecological past.

A photo of the MICE app in action - a doctor takes a photo of a patient's burn to send to the specialist.

Mobile app gets specialist advice to burns victims ASAP

We’ve teamed up with Fiona Stanley Hospital in WA to develop an app to support treatment for burns victims.

Floating bacteria

Nature’s cleaners: the little helpers treating mine water

Capturing a mining site’s tiny, yet complex microbial community, and putting it to work to ‘clean itself up’, could bring a revolution in water remediation efforts.

preserved shark specimen, shown head-to-tail from the side on a white background.

Lost and found: Solving a shark mystery

Researchers have identified a new species of shark known only from specimens in collections.

close up of a pig's face

Protecting Australia from African Swine Fever

While many of us have been relaxing over the summer holidays, our staff at AAHL have been testing seized pork products for African Swine Fever.

Screen capture from the rural Intelligence Platform showing a property and its different land uses, e.g. cropping and grazing in different colours

Measuring the worth of rural properties

New tech makes it easy to see a whole bunch of information about a farm in the same place at the same time and is set to revolutionise how decisions and investments are made.

A mass amount of dead fish washed up on a river bank.

Talking toxic blooms and mass fish deaths

We explore the science behind the recent toxic algae outbreak and the mass fish loss in the Murray Darling, and look at ways to manage it in the future.

Krill, whales and poo power

At the end of the day, who doesn’t like a good poo story (especially when it's about poo from the largest animal on Earth)!

A Ugandan female farms holds a tray of different bean seeds

Healthy diets, healthy planet: it is possible

The food we eat and the way we produce it are causing some pretty big environmental problems. We now have global scientific targets give to all humans a healthy diet without depleting the planet’s resources.