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  • The Solve magazine masthead.

    This article from CSIRO's publication Solve of August 2005 addresses how science is meeting the challenge of finding ways to reduce Australia's wasteful water practices and improve the way we use and manage this finite resource.

  • Image of hydrogen powered car being refuelled

    CSIRO is creating tools to explore the prospects for and impacts of alternative fuels for Australia’s road transport.

  • An artistic representation of the new buildings of the Australian Minerals Research Centre in Waterford, Western Australia.

    In a move that will advance key research in hydrometallurgy, CSIRO is investing A$15 million to create a new centre of excellence at its Waterford site in Western Australia.

  • Within the secure laboratory at CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory all air is filtered, once on the way in and twice on the way out. The filters within the stainless steel canisters remove particles down to 0.6 micron.

    The Australian Animal Health Laboratory plays a vital role in keeping Australia free from exotic and emerging animal diseases, including foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or ‘mad cow disease’) and scrapie.

  • Transmission electron micrograph showing a bat brain infected with lyssavirus.
    In 1996, a new virus was discovered in Australian bats - identified as a lyssavirus, this virus is a close relative to common rabies found overseas. Since its discovery, bat lyssavirus has killed two people in Australia.

     

  • Collection Hall at CSIRO's National Biology Collections

    The Australian Biological Collections contribute to the discovery, inventory, understanding and conservation of Australia’s plant and animal biodiversity.

  • Professor Ron Ekers.

    Former CSIRO scientist and current President of International Astronomers Union, Professor Ron Ekers argues that multi-culturalism makes science more fertile and Australians working overseas are our link to the global science community.

  • Portrait of mathematician Dr Mohan Krishnamoorthy.

    Find out about careers in mathematics from mathematician Dr Mohan Krishnamoorthy, one of CSIRO’s senior researchers.

  • CSIRO’s Mr Jonathan Campbell wears a safety hat and glasses in a workshop. He stands in front of some blue machinery, making adjustments to high pressure grinding rolls.

    A diminishing supply of high grade ore and increasing market demand are driving research into developing cost-effective technology to process Australia's low-grade ore deposits.

  • A pile of cut tree trunks.

    This feature article discusses competition between biofuels and alternative markets in the Australian context.