CSIRO
Star-birth myth 'busted' (w/ Podcast)
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers has debunked one of astronomy's long held beliefs about how stars are formed, using a set of galaxies found with CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope.
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Breeding their horns off -- a winner
A team of scientists led by CSIRO's Dr Kishore Prayaga has been awarded a prestigious Australian Museum Eureka Prize for its work to develop a simple genetic test which has the potential to end the need to ...
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Helping Albacore tuna come out of the can
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are set to study the earbones and organs of more than 2000 albacore tuna to better understand the growth, age and breeding patterns of this increasingly important species.
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Highest-ever winter water temperatures recorded
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tasmania’s east coast is recording its highest-ever winter water temperatures of more than 13ºC - up to 1.5ºC above normal - due to a strengthening of an ocean current originating north of ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Extraterrestrial platinum was 'stirred' into the Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- A research program aimed at using platinum as an exploration guide for nickel has for the first time been able to put a time scale on the planet’s large-scale convection processes.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Science adopts a new definition of seawater
The world's peak ocean science body has adopted a new definition of seawater developed by Australian, German and US scientists to make climate projections more accurate.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Astronomers reveal a 'blue whale of space'
CSIRO astronomers have revealed the hidden face of an enormous galaxy called Centaurus A, which emits a radio glow covering an area 200 times bigger than the full Moon.
Jul 07, 2009 |
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HIPS fireproof coatings can really take the heat
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tough new fire-resistant coating materials called HIPS (‘hybrid inorganic polymer system’) are being developed by CSIRO researchers in Melbourne.
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Some Ningaloo Reef fish are 'homebodies'
New research shows that some fish species in Western Australia's Ningaloo Marine Park spend most of their time close to home, staying on the reef rather than travelling significant distances, as was previously thought.
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Advance in bowel cancer test research
(PhysOrg.com) -- Australian researchers have developed gene expression biomarkers which can accurately discriminate pre-cancerous and cancerous colorectal growths from non-cancerous controls.
Jun 04, 2009 |
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A new twist in the sex life of silk worms
(PhysOrg.com) -- A quirk in the sex life of the silkworm (Bombyx mori) has been revealed by a team of CSIRO Food Futures Flagship scientists led by Dr Alisha Anderson.
Apr 23, 2009 |
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'Ocean glider' home after two-month voyage
Scientists are celebrating the first successful deployment and retrieval in Australia of a remotely controlled, deep ocean-going robotic submarine destined to play a central role in measuring changes in two ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 16, 2009 |
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Climate change may wake up 'sleeper' weeds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate change will cause some of Australia’s potential weeds to move south by up to 1000km, according to a report by scientists at CSIRO’s Climate Adaptation Flagship.
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Sensoring the World Wide Web
CSIRO scientists will lead an international initiative to develop standards for sharing information collected by sensors and sensor networks over the Internet.
Apr 15, 2009 |
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New barrier coating offers savings for aluminium smelters
(PhysOrg.com) -- A barrier coating developed through CSIRO’s Light Metals Flagship offers aluminium smelters significant annual savings in reduced consumption of petroleum coke alone.
Feb 23, 2009 |
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