CSIRO
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 |
4.6 / 5 (10) |
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Auditing the Earth's sea-level and energy budgets
An international research team has balanced the sea-level rise budget by showing that the total amount of contributions to sea level rise explains the measured rise over recent decades.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 04, 2011 |
3.9 / 5 (7) |
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Galaxies are running out of gas: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has shown why the lights are going out in the Universe.
Aug 22, 2011 |
4.6 / 5 (14) |
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Species affected by climate change: to shift or not to shift?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Relocating species threatened by climate change is a radical and hotly debated strategy for maintaining biodiversity.
Jul 25, 2011 |
3.7 / 5 (3) |
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Identifying the origin of the fly
(PhysOrg.com) -- Some may think that the mosquito and the house fly are worlds apart when it comes to common ancestry but new research published this week by an international team of scientists puts them much ...
Mar 23, 2011 |
5 / 5 (4) |
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'Seeding' the next generation of smart materials
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at CSIRO have developed a simple but effective technique for growing and adding value to an exciting new group of smart materials which could be used in areas such as optical sensing ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 18, 2011 |
3.7 / 5 (3) |
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Climate is warming - despite 'ups and downs'
Periodic short-term cooling in global temperatures should not be misinterpreted as signalling an end to global warming, according to an Honorary Research Fellow with CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Barrie Hunt.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 28, 2010 |
3.2 / 5 (58) |
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Black holes' true power revealed by 'Russian doll' galaxy
Following a study of what is in effect a miniature galaxy buried inside a normal-sized one – like a Russian doll – astronomers using a CSIRO telescope have concluded that massive black holes are ...
Nov 09, 2010 |
4.7 / 5 (18) |
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A new way to weigh planets
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.
Aug 24, 2010 |
5 / 5 (13) |
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Global warming's influence on El Nino still unknown
(PhysOrg.com) -- The climate of the Pacific region will undergo significant changes as atmospheric temperatures rise but scientists can not yet identify the influence it will have on the El Nino-Southern Oscillation ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 24, 2010 |
3.1 / 5 (11) |
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CSIRO telescope spots mega-star cradle
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a CSIRO radio telescope, an international team of researchers has caught an enormous cloud of cosmic gas and dust in the process of collapsing in on itself -- a discovery which could ...
Apr 28, 2010 |
5 / 5 (3) |
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Massive Southern Ocean current discovered
(PhysOrg.com) -- A deep ocean current with a volume equivalent to 40 Amazon Rivers has been discovered by Japanese and Australian scientists near the Kerguelen plateau, in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 26, 2010 |
4.8 / 5 (19) |
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Southern Ocean winds open window to the deep sea
Australian and US scientists have discovered how changes in winds blowing on the Southern Ocean drive variations in the depth of the surface layer of sea water responsible for regulating exchanges of heat ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 15, 2010 |
5 / 5 (2) |
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Students find 'lost' office gear with tiny sensors
(PhysOrg.com) -- Miniature sensors being developed by CSIRO promise to provide the answers to questions which seem to arise regularly in modern office workplaces like: "Where's my pen?" and; "Who nicked my ...
Feb 10, 2010 |
3 / 5 (2) |
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Artificial bee silk a big step closer to reality
(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO scientist Dr Tara Sutherland and her team have achieved another important milestone in the international quest to artificially produce insect silk.
Feb 03, 2010 |
4.2 / 5 (6) |
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