The valuation and trading of wool has been revolutionised by the introduction of objective measurement implemented through standardised pre-sale testing […]
European honeybees, which are the dominant pollinators of food crops, are under threat in Australia from several exotic species. CSIRO’s […]
In the late 1980s CSIRO scientists achieved what international experts had believed was impossible – the development of a successful […]
The installation of CSIRO-designed monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) amplifiers in the Australia Telescope Compact Array, to observe radio signals […]
Early biotechnology studies in Division of Industrial Chemistry during World War II involved the use of enzymes for the removal […]
Softly was developed by CSIRO’s Tom Pressley in the 1960s in response to the claim by a British microbiologist that […]
In the 1970s Tom Pressley carried out insightful research on the flammability of fabrics. It began with his demonstration that […]
In September 1994 an outbreak of acute respiratory disease occurred in a stable in the Brisbane suburb of Hendra. Twenty […]
Graeme Caughley studied the interactions between large mammalian herbivores and the environments they occupy. He argued that the dynamics of […]