Prospects for extending human life on ‘Second Life’

One of Australia’s leading nutritionists will tonight venture into another world to take part in Australia’s first virtual science seminar. 

CSIRO Robotics Lab Open Day – this Saturday!

On Saturday the CSIRO Laboratories at Pullenvale will open their doors to the public for a day of exploration, fun and learning.

Animated beer smooth to pour

Researchers from CSIRO and Korea’s ETRI will pour a virtual glass of beer in San Diego next week at SIGGRAPH 07, the world’s largest computer graphics conference, to showcase their innovative fluid special effects software.

BLUElink: A triumph of scientific collaboration

Users of the vast ocean areas around Australia will be able to obtain broad-scale information on ocean currents, temperature and salinity for the first time following today’s launch of BLUElink – a new ocean forecast system.

CSIRO helps create next generation e-Government services

The CSIRO ICT Centre and the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) have announced a collaboration which will explore advanced delivery models for citizen-centric online services.

CSIRO begins climate project with China

CSIRO and the Australian Greenhouse Office (AGO) have signed a two-year funding agreement for collaboration between CSIRO statisticians and the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Science.

Stats outsmarting brain tumours

CSIRO and the Kolling Institute of Medical Research at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital have discovered two new biological markers that can identify different types of aggressive brain tumours.

CSIRO leads water information initiative

CSIRO researchers have taken part in an international demonstration of a key technology for monitoring Australia’s scarce water resources.

Maths a priority area for growth says CSIRO

CSIRO welcomes the recommendations of a review of the state of the mathematical sciences in Australia which was released yesterday by a committee of the Australian Academy of Science.

Sustainable products, sustainable futures

Information about the environmental impact of a range of industry materials is to be made available to the public via a new national database. The database initiative will be announced this morning (Wednesday 22 November) at the 5th Australian Life Cycle Assessment conference in Melbourne.

Australia and China: Eyes in the sky to monitor climate change

CSIRO and the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping (CASM) will sign a research agreement in Beijing today to collaborate on China’s resource mapping satellite program.

Nerve cell software keeps track of brain change

Brain research will get a boost tomorrow (14 October) as CSIRO launches in the United States its HCA-Vision nerve cell analysis software at Neuroscience 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia, the world's largest conference for brain researchers.

e-Health Research Centre awards new Fellowship

Dr Simon K. Warfield has been appointed an International Fellow with CSIRO's e-Health Research Centre on a two-year term.

Parkes finds unexpected ‘heartbeats’ in star

Astronomers using CSIRO's Parkes telescope in eastern Australia have detected radio 'heartbeats' from a star that was not expected to have them. A US-Australian research team found that a 'magnetar' – a kind of star with the strongest magnetic fields known in the Universe – is giving off extraordinary radio pulses, which links this rare type of star with the much more common 'radio pulsars'.

Think locally, act regionally, says water researcher

A senior Australian climate scientist has called for more regionally-based studies on how countries in the Australasian region can adapt to climate change.

CSIRO, Medic Vision and University of Melbourne commercialise VR ear surgery training system

The CSIRO ICT Centre, Medic Vision Pty Ltd and the University of Melbourne have signed an agreement for the commercial development of a virtual reality (VR) system for teaching temporal bone surgery.

Virtual swimmer to speed up our athletes

CSIRO and the Australian Institute of Sport are using mathematics in a bid to speed up our top swimmers by testing changes to swimming strokes.

Australian expert joins WWW future project

Dr David Hansen was accepted as a participant in the Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG).

Data safety expert appointed Flagship fellow

CSIRO’s Preventative Health National Research Flagship has appointed Queensland data safety expert Professor Peter Croll to ensure the security of its innovative technology which allows the linking of diverse health databases, creating a powerful research tool for population health research and better patient treatment.

Annodex Foundation launch at Linux.conf.au

A new open source software foundation, the Annodex Foundation, will be launched at the Australian Linux Conference being held in New Zealand this week.

NIPI News: January 2009

Find out about the work being done by the National Invertebrate Pest Initiative (NIPI) in this issue of its newsletter. (9 pages)

An introduction to R: software for statistical modelling and computing, datasets

Datasets for the CSIRO course notes and exercises using 'R', software for statistical modelling and computing.

Science for services

This brochure highlights how government agencies, telcos, travel companies, banks and other service organisations can benefit from CSIRO research. In this brochure, you can read about 11 research successes in the Australian service sector. (4 pages)

An introduction to physical-statistical modelling using Bayesian methods

This 18-page technical report by CSIRO’s Dr Edward Campbell discusses integrating physical and statistical models using Bayesian methods. This approach helps environmental scientists deal with uncertainty in forecasting.

15AIIAAwards ICT MedRelTsr

The CSIRO ICT Centre has been selected as a finalist in two categories of the Australian Information Industry Association's iAwards.