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Six reasons you should care about El Niño

You’ve probably heard of El Niño, but do you know what it is? Or more importantly, why you should care?

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The pioneer of pulsars pops into Parkes

As a 24-year-old PhD student, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell made one of the most significant scientific discoveries of the 20th Century. She recently paid us a visit and told us about her discovery and what it was like being a pioneering woman in science.

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Plastic is deadly: how you can help

We calculated how many MCGs it would take to hold all the plastic in our oceans. Spoiler alert: a lot. Plastic is filling our oceans, killing animals and costing us billions. We need your help to solve this massive problem so here's what you can do about it.

Gardens in the ice: the flora of Antarctica

Not just ice, Antarctica is host to hardy mosses, lichens, and flowering plants that persist on a continent of extremes, extreme scarcity—water, heat, nutrients—and extreme overabundance—wind and radiation.

Could clues from the landscape reveal the next big gold discovery?

We’re working with Classic Minerals Limited to see if tree size is associated with areas of deep gold deposits in their Forrestania tenement in Western Australia.

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Why we need to start categorising marine heatwaves like hurricanes

Although marine heatwaves can last many months and extend over thousands of square kilometres, they don’t have a naming convention, like hurricanes do.

Interronauts | CSIRO podcast Ep 15: Please no Genie McGene Face, infertile invasive mozzies, and science digest

Researchers Kate Tepper and Gavin Volpato join Jesse to chat about our project to release sterilised male mosquitoes to drown-out an invasive mozzie species responsible for dengue fever and Zika—plus, also a fortnight science news digest.

Indigenous peoples are crucial for conservation – a quarter of all land is in their hands

A new map shows that more than 25% of all land outside Antarctica is held and managed by Indigenous peoples. This makes these communities vital allies in the global conservation effort.

Misty mountains and the Milky Way: out of this world astrophotography

Astrophiles, today is your lucky day: We have a collection of beautiful winning photos from the annual David Malin Awards. From Deep Sky to Solar Systems, Scientific to Aesthetic, the categories challenged photographers not just in their technical skills, but their eye for catching the beauty of the sky and ‘the intrinsic interest of astronomy’.

Taking charge of our lithium-ion battery waste

Australia recycles only 2% of its lithium-ion battery waste. Our new report has found ways to improve this statistic.

Warming oceans are changing Australia’s fishing industry

A new United Nations report on fisheries and climate change shows that Australian marine systems are undergoing rapid environmental change, with some of the largest climate-driven changes in the Southern Hemisphere.

Happiness helps football players do better, and it could help economies too

Smiling is a reflection of confidence and greater confidence leads to a greater capacity to overcome complex situations, such as scoring a goal in the World Cup. We decided to explore whether this same smiling-creativity link holds for entire societies by looking at the relationship between happiness and creative capacity.