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Dying, not waving: nearby dwarf galaxy running out of gas

Even though it’s on an astronomical timeline, a close intergalactic neighbour of ours known as the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is slowly dying.

Heart-shaped gold nugget in a hand

How a mob of stray cattle started a gold rush in the Pilbara

An accidental prospector has sparked a gold rush after making an extraordinary gold discovery while mustering cattle in a helicopter.

As the demand for battery technology increases so too does demand rise for the raw materials that go into them

Supercharging battery metals

With global demand for battery technology set to soar, Australia is well placed to deliver the raw materials and take advantage of a battery metal bonanza.

Ul de Rico, The Rainbow Goblins

Interronauts | CSIRO podcast Ep 22: Purple Earth and plants’ war for the rainbow, and an attack on titan

This episode Jesse talks about early Earth which may have been purple, two new species of tiny jellies, white rice with brown rice benefits, smell-based movie ratings, and the demise of the world's largest individual.

Adele Hudson standing in front of blurry green background.

The ABCs of teaching science

Every day teachers are forming our future leaders and it is one heck of a job.

man in lab safety gear in biomedical lab

A booster shot for Australian biomedical start ups

Aussie biotech start-ups will soon have access to state of the art, early-stage biologics manufacturing facility making it faster for them to bring new life-saving treatments to clinical trials.

When a fly’s feeling hungry, it will land on its food and vomit out a mix of saliva and stomach acids. Image: Shiv's Fotografia

Curious Kids: Why do flies vomit on their food?

Bush flies and blowflies all vomit on their food, but other flies are a little more polite at the dinner table and don’t vomit at all.

A 1980s photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger smiling at the camera holding weights

Don’t resist resistance: get lifting as you get older

We’re shredding some light on exercise for weight loss for Australian adults.

A brown and yellow fly sits on a green leaf.

Preventing farmageddon: new startup targets fruit fly

Our former researchers have founded RapidAIM to take their revolutionary fruit fly-monitoring technology to the world.

Turtle on a beach at Ningaloo Reef with a satellite tracker attached

Oh mama! Turtle ultrasound aims to uncover nesting sites

To better protect sea turtles, we are using ultrasound and tracking tags to detect where females go to nest, while also finding out what they get up to on the way.

A paella rice dish in a blue pot

Healthier rice is extra nice

Everybody loves rice. Everybody loves to be healthy. We’ve discovered a way to combine those two loves.

The underside of the newly-discovered M. antrichardsoni jellyfish

Tiny jellyfish discovery is bigger than you’d think

Our researchers have discovered and named two new species of micro-jellyfish found in Australian waters.