CSIRO Media Releases
2005
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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
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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).
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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16/06/2005 - New Barley Has
Healthy Future - CSIRO has developed a new type of
barley - BARLEYmax - which has significant
human health benefits.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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?
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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>
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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
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01/04/2005 - CSIRO forms
specialist risk team - CSIRO has announced the
formation of a dedicated group to undertake risk
research.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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08/03/2005 - A statistically
significant shortage - Australia is experiencing a
shortage of appropriately trained statisticians according
to a leading CSIRO scientist.
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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".
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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17/02/2005 - New
thinking on national energy future - Australia"s
Energy Futures Forum has begun work identifying plausible
future energy and transport scenarios.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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10/02/2005 - At last: video search
that works - CSIRO has developed an interactive
plugin for browsing through webs of video.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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02/02/2005 - Towards more efficient
forest assessment - CSIRO scientists have developed a
prototype forest biomass measurement device - ECHIDNA
™ - which should enable managers to more
efficiently run their forestry operations.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.