2005

• 30/06/2005 - CSIRO celebrates 70 years of science at Gatton - This Friday first of July marks 70 years to the day since George was employed and in recognition CSIRO is holding a reunion to celebrate all who have worked at CSIRO"s Cooper Laboratory, on what is now the University of Queensland campus at Gatton and t
• 28/06/2005 - Aussie astronomers prepare for smash hit - Astronomers at Australia"s national radio and optical observatories will watch as a probe released from a spacecraft slams into a comet about 133 million km away at a speed of nearly 37,000 km/h (10.2 km per second).
• 24/06/2005 - Prawn fishery applauds its pioneers - A 40-year research partnership that spawned and sustains the northern prawn fishery (NPF) will be celebrated on Friday June 24 at the CSIRO Marine Laboratories south-east of Brisbane.
• 24/06/2005 - ensis puts on a growth spurt - The joint venture between CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products (FFP) and New Zealand"s Scion (formerly Forest Research) ¿ ensis ¿ will soon become one of the world"s largest integrated forestry and forest products research organisations
• 23/06/2005 - New head for trans-Tasman joint venture - ensis ? the trans-Tasman forestry research joint venture established by CSIRO"s Division of Forestry and Forest Products and Scion (formerly New Zealand"s Forest Research) has appointed CSIRO"s Mr Larry Little as Chief Executive.
• 23/06/2005 - CSIRO maths cracks Sudoku and saves sugar industry millions - A CSIRO mathematical technique which has cracked the most complex Sudoku brain teaser has also uncovered solutions to the harvesting and transport problems in Australian sugar industry.
• 22/06/2005 - Keeping Produce Fresher for Longer - Trials of a new export packaging technology developed by CSIRO have shown it can maintain field freshness of selected fruit and vegetables during extended periods of storage and shipping.
• 21/06/2005 - CSIRO software streamlines drug discovery - Potential new drugs for neurological disorders like Parkinson"s are being screened faster thanks to world-leading CSIRO software that automatically assesses a drug"s effect on nerve cells.
• 21/06/2005 - Keeping Tabs on Tablets - New CSIRO imaging software means consumers could be confident their tablets contain exactly what their packaging says.CSIRO"s hyperspectral imaging software can be used by pharmaceutical companies for production line quality assurance during manufactur
• 21/06/2005 - CSIRO at greatest biotech show on earth - CSIRO is mounting a major display of its biotechnology capabilities at the world"s largest biotechnology exhibition and conference - BIO 2005 - in Philadelphia, USA, from 19 to 22 June.
• 20/06/2005 - Gene Silencing - Milestone Licence Agreement - CSIRO has taken a significant step forward in gene silencing research by entering into a licence agreement which allows the Australian Poultry Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) to use CSIRO"s gene silencing technology in the search for vaccines and tre
• 17/06/2005 - 65,000 kilometre journey for lightweight engine - A magnesium car engine that weights just 14 kilograms has been retired after completing 65,000 kilometres of trouble-free motoring. The lightweight magnesium alloy three-cylinder diesel engine block, which was installed in a Volkswagen Lupo, has spent
• 17/06/2005 - Using two cultures to manage Kakadu's wetlands - Violet and her family are combining traditional ecological knowledge with western science to manage Boggy Plain, an internationally recognised wetland on the South Alligator River floodplain in Kakadu. This project is the first of its kind in Australia
• 17/06/2005 - Harvesting New Chemicals From Grain Crops - More plastics, paints and even nylons could be made from chemicals produced in plants, an environmentally friendly replacement for non-renewable and increasingly costly petrochemicals currently used for the job.
• 17/06/2005 - New hope for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Australia - An international research project has for the first time successfully stored carbon dioxide in European coal beds.Scientists from CSIRO"s Petroleum Division who were involved in the four year project, say its success could have major implications for A
• 16/06/2005 - New Barley Has Healthy Future - CSIRO has developed a new type of barley - BARLEYmax™ - which has significant human health benefits.
• 15/06/2005 - Major Boost To Wine and Grape Research - Australia"s wine and grape research effort received a major boost recently with the South Australian Government"s decision to support the creation of a new "Wine Innovation Cluster" in Adelaide.
• 10/06/2005 - Major Award for Carbon Nanotube Partners - CSIRO and the NanoTech Institute of the University of Texas at Dallas have won the 2005 Avantex Innovation Prize for their breakthrough discovery of how pure carbon nanotubes can be spun into strong, flexible, electrically conductive yarns.
• 10/06/2005 - Sensing Opportunities for Australian Foods - Food Science Australia and Sydney-based consumer research and consultancy firm, Sensory Solutions, have combined forces to provide a suite of product and market research capabilities aimed at enhancing the competitiveness of Australia"s food industry.
• 09/06/2005 - Timor Sea Exploration Breakthrough - A team of scientists at CSIRO has developed a new exploration tool which could save oil and gas companies hundreds of millions of dollars.
• 03/06/2005 - CSIRO's magnesium sheet production process licensed - CSIRO has signed an exclusive option to licence its magnesium sheet production process with Magnesium International Limited"s subsidiary Magnesium International (No 1) Pty Ltd.
• 31/05/2005 - Double pulsar puts Einstein to the test - Einstein has kept his crown. His general theory of relativity, published in 1916, has stood up to the toughest tests astronomers have so far devisedtests based on a unique pair of pulsars found with CSIROs Parkes telescope in 2003.
• 31/05/2005 - Clarification on green house gas accounting for the forestry sector in the Balancing Act report - In a recently released report by the CSIRO and The University of Sydney on triple bottom line accounting for the Australian economy, called "Balancing Act", three forestry sectors were reported as having high greenhouse emissions per dollar of output.
• 31/05/2005 - CSIRO astronomer elected to Royal Society - Professor R D (Ron) Ekers, Foundation Director of CSIRO"s Australia Telescope National Facility and an ARC Federation Fellow, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in the UK for his contributions to radio astronomy and the development of techniqu
• 26/05/2005 - Correction on water usage figures assigned to the rice industry - In recent media reports about a study of the Australian economy called "Balancing Act" by the CSIRO and The University of Sydney, an error was made in the water usage assigned to the Australian rice industry.
• 25/05/2005 - New book on savanna skyscrapers - What"s equivalent to a million blind-folded people joining forces to build a skyscraper covering eight city blocks and towering over a mile into the sky?
• 25/05/2005 - Drink less rather than shower less to save water - If you are trying to do your bit for sustainability and save water by taking shorter showers, then a new report on sustainability reveals for the first time that there are more effective ways that our everyday choices can have a positive impact on the env
• 25/05/2005 - CSIRO and MIT join forces in robotics - Australia"s top researchers in robotics and machine intelligence have forged a research relationship with the world-leading MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the USA.
• 25/05/2005 - Sheep genome project on bovine fast-track - Australian researchers are part of an international consortium developing a virtual sheep genome map to fast-track application of the bovine genome sequence for sheep research.
• 24/05/2005 - Bankers could lead the sustainability revolution - A new report highlights how Australia"s banking and finance industry could make major contributions to Australia"s sustainability by incorporating new thinking into their financing decisions.
• 24/05/2005 - CSIRO shines a light on mining's triple bottom line - A new report by CSIRO and University of Sydney has opened up the full production chain for Australian industries to reveal that some industries, like mining, are more sustainable than generally assumed.
• 20/05/2005 - CSIRO's livestock researchers among world's best - CSIRO is one of the world"s leading animal and veterinary research performers, according to a recent report by the respected United States-based science journal publisher, Thomson Scientific.
• 19/05/2005 - European wasps thrive in our indian summer - Just when you thought it was safe to leave your can of soft drink uncovered, CSIRO and the ACT Department of Urban Services are warning that European wasps are still very active in the local area.
• 18/05/2005 - CSIRO gives energy generator companies the edge - The CSIRO has developed a powerful computer model which could become a fundamental part of the high pressure $7 billion per annum National Electricity Market.
• 18/05/2005 - CSIRO defends its intellectual property - Some of the world"s most significant suppliers of Wireless Local Area Network (Wireless LAN) devices have initiated legal action in the US to try to stop Australia"s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)* obtaining reasonabl
• 18/05/2005 - Scientists respond to widespread marine invader. - Scientists have developed a genetic tool to help environmental authorities monitor the spread and impact of Australia"s most invasive marine species, the New Zealand screwshell.
• 12/05/2005 - World-wide vigilance required to protect whale sharks - An international marine conference in Perth has issued a plea for countries to work more vigorously at protecting the unique, migratory whale shark and its habitat.
• 12/05/2005 - Seeking a national approach to 'fish kills' - Some of Australia"s leading experts in fish health and environmental management attended a workshop in Brisbane on 28 April to discuss ways of improving the current methods used to investigate the reasons for "fish kills" in Australian waters.
• 12/05/2005 - CSIRO budget 2005/06 statement - CSIRO chief executive Dr Geoff Garrett says this year"s budget is a strong one for science.
• 10/05/2005 - $97m research collaboration fund up and running - Scientific research in Australia received a major boost today with the launch of a fund designed to foster collaborative research between universities, CSIRO and other publicly funded research agencies (PFRA"s).
• 06/05/2005 - Whale sharks - 'Stop the slaughter' call - International collaboration to end the slaughter of the world"s biggest fish - the whale shark - is now a matter of urgency, according to marine scientists attending Australia"s first international whale shark conference beginning in Perth today.
• 05/05/2005 - Higher wheat yields for WA high rainfall zone - Increased wheat yields of up to 40 per cent in Western Australia"s high rainfall zones can be achieved by adopting management strategies that increase the number of ears produced by the wheat crop.
• 03/05/2005 - Military 'black box' behind longwall mining revolution - An innovative CSIRO mining project that not only improves safety in coal mines but also increases productivity, has been awarded one of the most prestigious accolades in the industry.
• 29/04/2005 - A Challenge to share water knowledge - The CSIRO and the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Irrigation Futures want to hear from businesses, community groups and farmers who have already adopted a sustainable approach to water and irrigation under The Irrigation Sustainability Challenge<</li>
• 26/04/2005 - Funding feeds the next generation of foods - Australia"s leading food researchers will invest new Victorian Government funding to develop the next generation of potentially revolutionary food processing technologies.
• 21/04/2005 - New tools for detecting livestock viruses - Australian scientists are developing new methods for detecting insect-borne livestock diseases soon after they enter northern Australia
• 14/04/2005 - How much are you willing to pay — for habitat? - Most people appreciate that healthy, sustainable landscapes must balance the competing demands of agriculture, industry and the environment. But in planning for the future, someone ultimately has to decide on the best way to configure land.
• 12/04/2005 - Big Murrumbidgee water savings possible - About 295 gigalitres could be saved from the Murrumbidgee and Coleambally Irrigation Areas while maintaining the current area of crops and reducing significantly the environmental impacts of irrigation, a team of irrigation experts has discovered.
• 12/04/2005 - Global first for Australian ocean-bed research - Australian research will potentially save the oil and gas industry billions of dollars by predicting the effects of future climate change on the seabed.
• 11/04/2005 - CSIRO delivers Reditus to GFI's FENICS FX customers - CSIRO announced today that Reditus, its new software for pricing exotic currency options, has been integrated with FENICS FX, the market standard for pricing and analysing FX (foreign exchange) options.
• 06/04/2005 - Change the world - be a statistician - If you are looking for an interesting and rewarding career that takes you to exotic places to solve problems that matter, you should choose statistics. So says one of Australia"s leading statisticians.
• 05/04/2005 - Healthy new future for omega-3 grains - In a world first CSIRO Food Futures Flagship has developed plants that produce DHA, a healthy omega-3 oil component normally only available from fish sources, and vital for human health.
• 04/04/2005 - Catch the science – before it's gone without a trace! - When does a micronutrient become a contaminant?
  How much can our native species handle?
  Are the risks to human health fully understood?
  And what can we do to clean up our land and water?
• 04/04/2005 - Indian Ocean climate watch network grows - The development of a huge observing network to monitor ocean currents and temperature and understand the conditions that bring rain – and drought – to nearly two thirds of the world"s population is underway in the Indian Ocean.
• 04/04/2005 - On the hunt for deadly frog disease - A workshop on new methods of detecting and controlling the spread of one of the world"s most deadly frog diseases – chytridiomycosis – will be held from 4-7 April at CSIRO Livestock Industries" Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) in
• 01/04/2005 - CSIRO forms specialist risk team - CSIRO has announced the formation of a dedicated group to undertake risk research.
• 01/04/2005 - Major honour for CSIRO scientists - Two CSIRO scientists, Dr Jorgen Frederiksen and Dr Jeff Ellis, have received one of the most prestigious honours that can be bestowed on an Australian researchers by their peers – membership of the Australian Academy of Science.
• 31/03/2005 - How plants survive a frosty reception - An autumn observation in a Canberra garden has led to insights into how some plants resist frost damage.
• 30/03/2005 - Plant gene replacement no cause for the blues - Australian and Japanese researchers have demonstrated the application of RNAi technology for gene replacement in plants, developing the world"s only blue rose,
• 30/03/2005 - Mathematicians promise animation revolution - CSIRO mathematicians are combining art and science to solve one of the last big challenges in animation – fluids.
• 24/03/2005 - International Climate Change Conference – Melbourne - This November, Australian and international scientists will meet in Melbourne aiming to set a new benchmark in how industry and government can respond to climate change research.
• 23/03/2005 - Aussie ingenuity helps NASA search for new planets - CSIRO"s success with a new manufacturing technique for a piece of astrometry equipment is likely to help American scientists detect planets in our galaxy and beyond.
• 22/03/2005 - "Water for Life" - World Day for Water - 22nd March 2005 - World Water Day (WWD) 2005 marks the start of the upcoming water decade"s theme Water for Life and the start of the International Decade for Action. The goals of the Decade are to focus effort on water related issues and on the implementation of water rel
• 18/03/2005 - Heavier fleeces exact a toll - A significant link has been detected between one of the most desirable wool traits in Merino sheep and the animal"s ability to maintain body reserves, and potential reproductive performance.
• 17/03/2005 - ensis forestry research initiative wins major business award - The joint venture between Australasia"s largest forestry industry research and development agencies - CSIRO Forest and Forest Products (CFFP) and New Zealand"s Forest Research (FR) - has been rewarded with an inaugural Telstra Trans-Tasman Business Award.
• 16/03/2005 - New Centre for poultry immunogenomics - A million-dollar joint research facility dedicated to developing new medicines and vaccines to fight poultry diseases has been established at CSIRO Livestock Industries" Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong, Victoria.
• 11/03/2005 - Hassled galaxy 'thriving on chaos' - Powerful but unknown forces are at work in a small companion galaxy of the Milky Way, astronomers say in today"s issue of the journal Science.
• 10/03/2005 - An electronic version of the Standard Gauge Railway - A workshop to be held at Canberra"s "CSIRO Discovery Centre" from 15䎤 March will discuss plans to create an innovative new data exchange network.
• 09/03/2005 - Scorpions stirring in the ACT - Officers working for CSIRO Entomology in Canberra are receiving more enquiries about "scorpion sightings" in the ACT than usual.
• 08/03/2005 - A statistically significant shortage - Australia is experiencing a shortage of appropriately trained statisticians according to a leading CSIRO scientist.
• 08/03/2005 - Brave new world for scientific scrutiny - Australian and international experts will hold a briefing session for government and industry policy makers in Canberra tomorrow to explain a relatively new approach to addressing large, complex problems ? "network science".
• 07/03/2005 - French say 'oui' to Aussie whey recycling - The Australian dairy industry could become a world-leader in environmentally sustainable food manufacturing following a million-dollar agreement between two of Australia"s leading food science institutions and a French supplier of life science processing
• 07/03/2005 - They love our Mary, now they love our antennas - The Danes know when they"re on a good thing. They"ve adopted an Australian as their Crown Princess and now their radio programs will be broadcast with help from Australian technology.
• 01/03/2005 - Asian exports to increase with new Aussie soybean - A new CSIRO Plant Industry bred soybean variety, "Snowy", is set to enhance the profitability of the Australian soybean industry due to higher yields and better quality soybeans.
• 28/02/2005 - Research alliance seeks to help world's poor - Australia"s premier research institution, CSIRO, will host the 4th annual meeting of the Global Research Alliance in Melbourne this week from 28 February to 1 March.
• 25/02/2005 - CSIRO creates new research units - The CSIRO Board this week endorsed the creation of powerful new business units to strengthen the organisation"s food and nutrition, health and biotechnology, and marine and atmospheric research activities.
• 24/02/2005 - Secret life of cattle revealed - CSIRO scientists in Rockhampton have developed a unique system which enables them to monitor how social interactions between cattle directly impacts on their productivity and the potential spread of diseases within the herd.
• 22/02/2005 - Termites feed through good vibrations - Discovery that termites use vibrations to choose the wood they eat may provide opportunities to new methods of reducing infestations in homes and also may provide insights into the "cocktail party effect" of signal processing - how to ignore most noise bu
• 22/02/2005 - Eleven Years Of Growing Plant Science - After eleven years and over $2 million in research funding, the Ken and Yasuko Myer Plant Science Research Fund will be wound up at the CSIRO Discovery Centre in Canberra today.
• 22/02/2005 - Research Partners head for Northern Seas - Australia"s Marine National Facility RV Southern Surveyor leaves Cairns tomorrow on the first leg of an 80 day assessment of seabed habitats in the Gulf of Carpentaria and Arafura Sea.
• 21/02/2005 - CSIRO gets sun smart - CSIRO scientists will soon be taking advantage of Australia"s abundance of solar energy when construction of the $1.5 million National Solar Energy Technology Centre (NSETC) commence later this month.
• 19/02/2005 - Monster star blast 'brighter than full Moon' - Radio telescopes of CSIRO and the University of Sydney, and others in Europe, India and the USA, have been watching the aftermath of one of the most stupendous cosmic explosions ever recorded.
• 17/02/2005 - Canberra program prepares future botanists - Nineteen botany and plant ecology students will today graduate from the Student Botanical Internship Program in Canberra.
• 17/02/2005 - Sweet gains from high-molasses feedlot diets - North Queensland"s beef and sugar industries are set to benefit from research showing that cattle on high-molasses diets yield commercially attractive live-weight gains without compromising beef quality.
• 17/02/2005 - New thinking on national energy future - Australia"s Energy Futures Forum has begun work identifying plausible future energy and transport scenarios.
• 15/02/2005 - Addressing Australia's energy and transport future now - In the first meeting of its kind, Australian industry, government, scientific, community and environmental groups will today come together to discuss the nation"s energy and transport future.
• 15/02/2005 - Emergency: maths to the rescue - A team of mathematicians at CSIRO is developing a system that can predict the likelihood of hospital emergency departments having to go on bypass and turn away ambulances carrying critically ill patients.
• 10/02/2005 - Inaugural Chris Wallace Award goes to CSIRO Search Guru - Dr David Hawking of the CSIRO ICT Centre has been awarded the inaugural Chris Wallace Award for Research Contribution from the Computing Research and Education Association (CORE).
• 10/02/2005 - At last: video search that works - CSIRO has developed an interactive plugin for browsing through webs of video.
• 10/02/2005 - CSIRO telescopes help rescue Titan experiment - CSIRO"s radio telescopes and others in Australia, China, Japan and the USA have revealed how the wind speeds on Saturn"s moon Titan vary with altitude-and have turned a disappointment into a triumph.
• 07/02/2005 - New laser research could improve oil exploration success - CSIRO Petroleum and German-based research centre Laser Zentrum Hannover eV (LZH) are collaborating in a project that could save millions of dollars in oil exploration and introduce new Australian geochemical and petroleum analysis techniques to Europe.
• 07/02/2005 - Declining interest in science a concern - Australia won"t be able to maintain a science-literate population if the decline in science education is not reversed, says CSIRO science educator Dr Kath Kovac.
• 04/02/2005 - US scientist here to help sheep industry - CSIRO Livestock Industries has enlisted one of the world"s leading authorities on rumen microbiology to help develop new research techniques that could lead to major increases in the Australian sheep industry"s production levels.
• 03/02/2005 - Visit aids management of animal disease - An international expert in the dynamics and impacts of infectious animal diseases, Dr Brian Perry, will spend the next four weeks working with CSIRO scientists exploring new research opportunities for managing disease outbreaks in Australia"s livestock in
• 02/02/2005 - Towards more efficient forest assessment - CSIRO scientists have developed a prototype forest biomass measurement device - ECHIDNA &trade; - which should enable managers to more efficiently run their forestry operations.
• 31/01/2005 - CSIRO finds way to get more out of old cars - CSIRO Minerals has found a way to reduce waste from car recycling, recycle materials that are currently thrown away, and make the end waste less harmful for disposal.
• 28/01/2005 - Magnetic mystery solved - Magnetars - stars with magnetic fields a thousand million million times stronger than Earth"s - are formed when some of the biggest stars in the cosmos explode, says a team led by Australian ex-pat Bryan Gaensler of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astr
• 27/01/2005 - New methane chambers to help reduce global warming - Research to reduce sheeps" production of methane -one of the most potent greenhouse gases - received a boost recently with the installation of four new methane chambers at CSIRO Livestock Industries" facilities in Perth.
• 19/01/2005 - Matilda fleeced for children's hospital - Laden with a heavy fleece Matilda was an easy catch - and is now helping raise money for the Neonatal Unit of the Royal Children"s Hospital in Melbourne.
• 13/01/2005 - Termites a major threat to Victoria - Subterranean termites pose a major threat to dwellings and other vital infrastructure throughout Victoria according to a report released today by CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products (CFFP) scientist, Jim Creffield.
• 12/01/2005 - Study targets queen of northern seas - The secret life of one of northern Australia"s most popular sportfish, the spectacular queenfish, is being studied by CSIRO scientists for clues to its role and abundance in the marine ecosystem.
• 11/01/2005 - European wasp threatens Australia's biodiversity - The CSIRO and Canberra Urban Parks and Places are working together to alert Canberra residents about the harmful effects of the European wasp.
• 06/01/2005 - Australian expertise crucial in disease fight - Australian expertise is a crucial part of an international project aiming to develop therapies against two deadly viruses.