Rainforest rehab in every sense

Sophisticated sensors that measure leaf wetness, soil moisture and temperature are helping rehabilitate rainforest in the Springbrook World Heritage precinct in south-east Queensland.

Cardiac patients trial home-based rehabilitation

Patients who have been treated in hospital for cardiac health problems, such as a heart attack, are being given a powerful new option to help set them on the path to good health.

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.

CSIRO-Boeing partnership celebrates 20 years

CSIRO and The Boeing Company today celebrate the 20th anniversary of their research partnership.

Broadband wireless research gets ‘green’ light

Australia’s biggest collaboration with China on wireless communications research will focus on making the next generation of wireless networks more environmentally friendly.

CSIRO robotics research rated ‘coolest’ summer job

Voting with their feet, a record 28 university students from across Australia spent the summer working with CSIRO’s autonomous systems researchers in Brisbane.

Australian technology in global health toolkit

CSIRO is helping to address an issue vexing the health system worldwide – the need for quality, accurate information in electronic health records.

CSIRO wireless research partnership with China

CSIRO is to lead Australia’s largest research collaboration with China in the field of wireless and mobile communications networks.

Security software licensed to Australian company

In an agreement announced today, sophisticated analysis technology jointly developed by CSIRO and Boeing has been licensed by CSIRO to Australian company Semantic Sciences to enable the development of software for intelligence analysis to protect Australia’s security

CSIRO looks to the Petabyte Age

CSIROvision, CSIRO’s new ultra high resolution visualisation system, is a window to a near future world where such huge volumes of information are generated that science itself will change, according to Dr Alex Zelinsky, CSIRO Group Executive, Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies.

Introducing Tassie’s underwater robot – ‘Searise’

A miniature CSIRO submarine being used to study the health of Tasmania’s waterways has officially been named ‘Searise’.

CSIRO to help provide ‘live’ video of Mars mission

When the Americans eventually send a manned mission to Mars, the whole world will be able to watch ‘live’ television coverage of the event courtesy of CSIRO know-how.

CSIRO oversees rescue of ‘Outback Joe’

In an ultra-modern take on a St Bernard bringing brandy to stranded skiers, tomorrow pilotless aircraft will drop water to someone ‘lost’ in the outback.

Reducing bottlenecks in emergency departments

The Australian e-Health Research Centre has shown that it is possible to accurately predict how many patients will present at hospital emergency departments, their expected medical needs and the number of hospital admissions.

Research agreement to reveal secret lives of cells

Cells will get a dose of reality TV when image analysts at CSIRO and cell biologists at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research work together to observe their secret lives.

‘Innovation and Excellence Day’ showcases QCAT’s R&D

World-class mining research and technological developments with far reaching implications for Australia’s future will be featured tomorrow, 1 August, in Brisbane during the Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies’ (QCAT’s) fourth annual Innovation and Excellence Day.

CSIRO wireless responds to emergencies

CSIRO is developing new wireless technologies for locating, tracking, sensing and communicating in areas where global positioning systems (GPS) do not work.

Using biostatistics to detect disease outbreaks

An internationally recognised authority in biostatistics, Harvard University Professor Louise Ryan, is working with CSIRO researchers to help improve the way statistics are used to detect disease outbreaks in Australia.

Fellowship boosts marine ecosystem research

Australian research into how marine ecosystems are affected by a combination of environmental change, human activity and management decisions, received a boost recently with the award of a CSIRO CEO’s Science Leader Fellowship to marine scientist, Dr Beth Fulton.

Boeing’s Phantom Works arrives in Queensland

CSIRO welcomes the announcement by Boeing that the Australian headquarters of its advanced technologies research organisation, Phantom Works, will be located in Brisbane.

Put Trust in Your Pocket: CSIRO’s Trust Extension Device

CSIRO has developed a prototype portable device that will allow people to do business across the internet on any computer in a trusted manner.

Move over C-3PO, here comes Snakebot

Robots that look like snakes could be used for search and rescue operations of the future.

Monitoring Asia-Pacific disasters from space

A space-based international Earth observation network to detect and monitor natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific region has been formed with a substantial contribution from Australian science.

Improved pest database to protect agriculture

An important tool for protecting Australia’s precious natural environment and agricultural industries has been updated and improved.

ICT plugs into healthcare delivery

Advances in ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) for personal health care are playing a critical role in improving people's health and wellbeing.