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• Australia’s marine environments facing pressure

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Sydney, November 27 (ANI): A new report by Australian scientists has found that marine environments in the country, such as the Great Barrier Reef, are not faring well, and are under a lot of pressure.According to ABC News, scientists have given the state of Australia’s marine environment a low grade in the ...
  18 hours ago

• CSIRO to launch hybrid CPU-GPU supercomputer

  
  Icrontic — Authority: 442
  CSIRO to harness GPUs and CPUs for a supercomputer with the performance of an all-CPU cluster twice its size.
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• GCP warns over rising global temperatures

  
  Electric.co.uk News — Authority: 438
  A recent report analysis from the Global Carbon Project (GCP) warned that the average global temperatures could rise by up to 6C if no actions will be done to lessen carbon gas emissions. Data shows that emissions increased by 29 per cent between 2000 and 2008. According to scientist Corinne Le Quere, the recent ...
  1 week ago

• CSIRO s Wayne Leifert on Cell-Free Assays for GPCR Drug Discovery (GenomeWeb News)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 154
  Position: Senior Research Scientist, Molecular Biosensing Project, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Division of Molecular and Health Technologies, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, since 1988. (read the story…) Related items ITRI’s STOBA Material Technology for ...
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• MINE ENGINEERING: New pit slope guidelines from CSIRO

  
  MINING.com News — Authority: 180
  AUSTRALIA — The Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization (CSIRO) has published what it calls the first new guidelines for open pit slope design in more than 30 years. According to CSIRO, the last handbook of this type was published in 1977 by
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• You can always tell youre in trouble when the good option involves a prosthetic leg.

  
  This will hurt me... — Authority: 136
  Ezra woke everybody up and three am this morning, and I couldnt get myself back to sleep. Fair dinkum, I needed a crane to lift me out of bed to get ready for work. Above is a photo of the CSIRO crane down here in the Salamanca district of Hobart. I cannot confirm or deny that this crane is used to lift up whales to ...
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• A birding weekend away.

  
  The Nature of Robertson — Authority: 125
  The following birds are DEFINITELY not from Robertson. A family of Emus being led away by Dad (right) I went to West Wyalong with Mark Clayton and some other bird banders from Canberra. My association with Mark goes back further than most people have been alive, so I shall not bore readers with the details, ...
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• Sea levels “threaten 250,000 homes”

  
  Australian Climate Madness — Authority: 145
  Rising faster than ever? Garbage In Garbage Out Alert: This is the sort of nonsense one gets when one treats as gospel the projections of hopelessly incomplete models. Even the IPCC thinks that sea level rises will only reach 79cm, but Australia’s own alarmist CSIRO goes one better. It has chosen the figure of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Low carb diets make people grumpy

  
  Asylum Australia — Authority: 147
  Filed under: Happy Hour Hero , Health , Science Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Lets give it up for Australias science boffins, for they have given us good reason to enjoy our carbs with relish. Between the CSIRO, South Australia University, and Flinders University, ... Read more   ...
  2 weeks ago

• CSIRO ICT Centre Conference

  
  Net Traveller — Authority: 138
  Greeting from the 2009 CSIRO ICT Centre Conference. Each year the CSIRO ICT Centre runs a conference for its own staff and invited guests. This year I have been helping with a project featured in the conference and so had the opportunity to attend. There are several hundred people at the conference, with two days of ...
  3 weeks ago

• CSIRO embroiled in censorship battle

  
  Australian Climate Madness — Authority: 145
  We reported here about how CSIRO had attempted to suppress the publication of a paper critical of the government’s ETS. Unfortunately, it seems the story just won’t go away: The CSIRO is grappling with claims it is trying to censor the work of an economist who has criticised the policy at the centre of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• CSIRO announces new food science head

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 513
  Internationally recognised food scientist and science leader, Professor Martin Cole, will start as the Chief of CSIRO’s Division of Food and Nutritional Sciences (FNS) in January 2010.Professor Cole is currently Director of the National Centre for Food Safety and Technology (NCFST) in the United States and Research ...
  3 weeks ago

• Censorship alert

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 560
  The World Today yesterday ran a story today about the CSIRO blocking a paper that had been accepted for publication by the journal New Political Economy after being internationally peer-reviewed. The had been submitted by Dr Clive Spash, a CSIRO ecological economist specialising in the interactions between the ...
  3 weeks ago

• CSIRO to replace toxic chromate with green Quench Coat in galvanizing operations

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 444
  Chromate might be an excellent corrosion inhibitor but its toxicity is always questionable. Providing galvanizers with a better substitute i.e. Quench Coat, Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) scientists now hope to protect galvanized products from white rust and retain ...
  3 weeks ago

• CSIRO bid to gag ETS attack

  
  Australian Climate Madness — Authority: 145
  The CSIRO is supposed to be the nation’s top scientific body, but it is up to its neck in the grubby politics of climate change by attempting to silence a critic of the government’s oh-so-wonderful ETS: THE nation’s peak science agency has t ried to gag the publication of a paper by one of its senior ...
  3 weeks ago

• “CSIRO managers had written to the journal’s editor demanding the paper not be published.”

  
  IAIN HALL — Authority: 132
  When I first heard that the government of Brother Number One was planning to tackle “Global Warming” with an ETS I immediately had a vision of the great leader trying to control a very large bus from the back seat by tying a couple of strands of soggy spaghetti to the steering wheel and [...]
  3 weeks ago

• CSIRO’s national challenges for Australian science

  
  The Plummet Onions — Authority: 127
  Alright, I’m here in Sydney, and getting close to normal again. What better way to regain normality than regular blogging again? The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is Australia’s national science agency. They manage national R&D facilities and focus on several areas of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles Could Power Your Home

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 138
  Today the plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) require an overnight charge back at your home. But scientists at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) have found a way to use these PHEVs as large mobile batteries that can be integrated and used in powering your home.
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• Scientists develop method to assess ecological risk

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Sydney, Oct 29 (IANS) Scientists have developed a method called ecological risk assessment (ERA) which can identify the dangers of different fishing practices.The method was developed by Tony Smith and Alistair Hobday from CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation) in association with the ...
  4 weeks ago

• “Father of WiFi” Finally Recognised

  
  TechNation Australia — Authority: 415
  John O’Sullivan, the leader of the team that pioneered the high-speed wireless network, has finally been officially recognised and rewarded by winning the Australian Prime Minister’s 2009 Prize for Science. Apart from the prestige, the prize comes with a AUD$300K (~US$280K) grant. The prize was announced last ...
  4 weeks ago

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