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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.

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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.

Looking for a low-gluten beer? Here’s what you need to know

Is it really possible to avoid gluten if you like a frothy? Do different types of beers have different levels of gluten? And how accurate are the tests?

Future foods could make you healthier, and the planet greener

Could future foods such as insects, seaweed and lab-grown meat feed us in both an environmentally sustainable and healthy way?

Farming

Global strategies needed to combat antibiotic and pesticide resistance

Resistance to antibiotics and pesticides is rising at alarming rates. Global strategies, such as those developed for Australia’s cotton industry, to maintain ‘susceptible’ insects, are key in our fight against resistance.

Preventing farmageddon: new startup targets fruit fly

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

Healthier rice is extra nice

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

Top four food trends you’ll soon see on supermarket shelves

Some food trends come and go (we’re looking at you salted caramel) but some are much more long-term because they’re based on science.

Climate change will reshape the world’s agricultural trade

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

Farming

Best of both whorls: cotton with the benefits of synthetics

We’re working on new types of cotton that are still biodegradable and renewable, but with the added benefit of properties that make synthetic fibres popular.

How to grow crops on Mars if we are to live on the red planet

If humans are to live on Mars they will need a stable supply of food. Earth plants are not suited to the Mars climate but we can engineer plants that are.

Farming

Ceres in your phone, our app that predicts farmers’ cereal yields

The digital revolution isn't limited to metropolises—Graincast is our app that helps farmers estimate yields from a single paddock to an entire crop.

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