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How to make your garden native bee friendly

Now you’ve got your Guide to Native Bees, it’s time to attract them to your garden!

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Australia, it’s time for a high tech health kick

We’ve got a 15 year plan to take Australian healthcare from flab to fab, one that could make us happier, healthier, and save lives and billions of dollars along the way.

A painting of two Tasmanian tigers standing – tan coloured dog like animals with black tiger stripes on back and tail.

Using microscopy to grab the Tassie tiger by the tail

With the help of modern technology and a few antique hairs, we’ve learned a little bit more about the Tasmanian tiger.

We asked five experts: do we have to poo every day?

All experts agreed there's nothing to worry about if you don't go every day.

Australia’s grain exports will suffer under climate change. Alpha/Flickr, CC BY-NC

Climate change will reshape the world’s agricultural trade

Climate change will change the dynamic for major food exporters like China and the US.

The synthetic biology revolution is now – here’s what that means

Right now, you're living in a kind of industrial revolution – where biotechnology, information technology, manufacturing and automation all come together to form synthetic biology.

Dengue fever pitch: virus changes mozzie’s sense of smell

Scientists have discovered that the dengue virus alters mosquito’s sense of smell and changes their breeding behaviour, increasing their range of transmission.

Two jars of honey

Is your honey faking it?

With news that our honey might be cut with artificial substitutes, we look at how blockchain could be used to help solve issues like this in the future.

Interronauts | CSIRO podcast Ep 18: Minority Report billboards, iron-less cotton, and a fortnightly science digest

Technophile Ketan teaches technophobe Jesse about big data and the big burden it bears, robot marketers, fingerprint-swiping hackers, this fortnight in science news, and our new cotton that doesn't need ironing.

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Fantastic fathers: Australian wildlife edition

Put aside those awesome Father's Day gifts, we're featuring the most dedicated dads in the Australian wild.

Can you beelieve?! Our guide to native bees

European honeybees are beloved, yet our very own beautiful native bees don't get much attention. It's time to get to know our fuzzy friends a bit better and go on a wild native bee-hunting ride.

Local communities need more reassurance about the legacy left by coal seam gas wells

One of the key questions any industry must consider is: what is left behind when it is finished. For coal seam gas, this question is crucial.