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A school of orange fish swimming near the bottom of the ocean

Cooee! Sound-testing 1200 metres beneath the waves

We're using an echolocator to watch the daily migration of sea life rise up from depths to feed at dusk and then return back to the depths at dawn. But some fish have oil-filled bladders rather than a gas bladder making their reflection weak and difficult to count. That's where our special camera comes in.

A school of sardines

Here’s the seafood Australians eat (and what we should be eating)

Over 85 per cent of seafood caught in Australia is sustainable. However, just because a fish is sustainably caught, it doesn’t make it the most nutritious and healthy option – and vice versa. We've compared the two to see what seafood is both sustainable and nutritious.

Long black box with silver antennas emerging from 4 sides of the box, and solar panels extended on the top. Has the names of Inovor Technologies and CSIRO on the side of the box.

Good things come in small packages, satellites included

CubeSats - aka nanosatellites herald a new approach to Earth observation and remote sensing work for Australia. For their size, they punch well above their weight.

close up of a cow with it's tongue out

Lactose on the tip of our virtual tongue

Got milk? Our Cybertongue technology can ‘taste’ milk to rapidly detect lactose and spoilage.

Grey asteroid spinning in front of black background

NASA spacecraft arrives at Bennu asteroid

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has travelled more than 2 billion kilometres across the solar system and has now officially arrived in Bennu’s orbit.

Illustration of Clostridium difficile bacteria

From the trenches to today, the superbug war never ends

The world needs new, stronger antibiotics. We’re helping an Australian company make a powerful candidate commercially viable.

Olive oil being poured from a bottle into a small dish with fresh olives alongside the dish

Our food detectives are on the case

Just as a fingerprint can identify a person, our food detectives are working to stamp out food fraud by using isotopes to trace food from the paddock to the plate.

really big black and white cow among wagyu cattle to show scale

Knickers the steer is big – but he’s no freak

Yes, Knickers the steer is really, really big. But he’s far short of true genetic freak status

A mixture of green, pink and blue blobs representing different metals

X-rays of rocks show their super-fluid past, and reveal mineral deposits vital for batteries

New X-ray technologies reveal some of the incredible processes that took place in Earth’s geological history – and should help us identify new high value ores.

Albatross with plastic soft drink bottle

‘Heartbreaking’ discovery of human trash 100km off Tasmanian coastline

Scientists discover birds toying with a party balloon and plastic bottle, with a soft drink can spotted 1,000 metres down on the ocean floor — sights described by researchers as "heartbreaking".

Three prawns in a tank.

The Midas lunch: we fed prawns gold and sifted through the mess, for science

The secret to better prawn health could be in their digestive system, and feeding them gold could help to provide the answer.

drone in the sky

Getting more carbon fibre in our industrial diet

We’re developing world leading carbon fibre to help create a new Australian industry, and spur technological breakthroughs.