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New methods for detecting disease outbreaks earlier have been developed in a collaborative effort between CSIRO and NSW Health.

An international CSIRO-led team of astronomers has developed a new way to weigh the planets in our Solar System – using radio signals from the small spinning stars called pulsars.

The Victorian Direct Manufacturing Centre has been established in Melbourne by a consortium led by CSIRO to help make the state’s manufacturing industries more environmentally friendly, productive and globally competitive.

To celebrate National Science Week 2010 (14-22 August), CSIRO is staging events across the nation designed to both showcase its accomplishments and inspire members of the public to begin their own journeys of scientific discovery.

Scientists are reporting significant changes in the distribution of coastal fish species in south-east Australia which they say are partly due to climate change.

CSIRO has developed computer software that aims to encourage children to be more active when playing computer games.

A smart sensor network that is monitoring the quality of drinking water in south-east Queensland has earned CSIRO one of the Australian ICT industry's highest accolades.

A collaborative agreement between CSIRO and two German organisations is providing Australian food companies with access to a new processing technology which uses low-energy electron beams rather than heat or chemicals to decontaminate food.

The latest advances in soil science and how they can provide solutions for a changing world will be the focus of the 19th World Congress of Soil Science opening in Brisbane today.

CSIRO scientists have developed a revolutionary technique for the rapid on-site detection and quantification of petroleum hydrocarbons (commonly derived from crude oil) in soil, silt, sediment, or rock.

An international symposium on the role nutrition plays in the prevention and management of pregnancy complications and early childhood diseases such as autism, asthma, obesity and cancer will be held in Adelaide this Friday, 30 July.

Archaeological research in East Timor has unearthed the bones of the biggest rat that ever lived, with a body weight around 6 kg.

Seven of Australia’s top graduates in mathematics, statistics and engineering have started with CSIRO in a new program that is bridging the gap between a university degree and a research career.

Australians who are serious about losing weight are being asked to help CSIRO develop a web-based diet management program.

Australian scientists have presented key findings at an international Alzheimer’s disease conference this week. Their major focus is on early detection and discovering why the disease progresses.

 A combination of alternative energy and computational modelling developed by CSIRO in collaboration with Horticulture Australia Limited (HAL) and the Australian Prune Industry Association has cut energy requirements by 60 per cent in some areas of food processing.

A teleoperated shiploader designed to remotely control the loading iron ore is being trialled by Rio Tinto at a port in the Pilbara.

Two hundred of the world’s top minds in plant oil research are gathering in Australia next week to share their research into how renewable plant-based oils can be engineered to replace industrial oils that have traditionally been manufactured from petroleum.

CSIRO is partnering with China United Coalbed Methane Corporation Limited (CUCBM) on a A$10 million joint demonstration project that will store 2000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) underground in the Shanxi Province and extract methane for use as an energy source.

CSIRO has signed a global licensing agreement for its patented RAFT technology. Reversible Addition-Fragmentation chain Transfer (or RAFT) technology is an elegant and powerful polymerisation process that has given rise to a new branch of polymer chemistry.

A more flexible approach to the expansion of protected area systems could ultimately protect much more biodiversity for the same budget according to a new paper in the scientific journal Nature.

Innovation in Industrial Research, a new book from CSIRO Publishing, is a hands-on guide for Australian scientists, managers and students.

They make you itch and they are hard to find but scientists have got the body louse well and truly in their sights.

After 10 years of careful breeding and research, scientists have developed what could be the world’s most perfect prawn.

In today’s issue of Science, CSIRO astronomer George Hobbs and colleagues in the UK, Germany and Canada report that they have taken a big step towards solving a 30-year-old puzzle: why the “cosmic clocks” called pulsars aren’t perfect.