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Mother of invention
As part of our series in the lead up to Mother’s Day, Megan Fisher, Executive Manager of Intellectual Property and Licensing, tells us about a typical day at work and how her life has changed since...
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We love our mums!
How would your kids describe what you do at work? In the lead up to Mother’s Day, we asked a bunch of CSIRO mums to tell us what their kids think they do in our labs, offices and communities around the...
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And bend and flex: Scott Watkins’ new generation of solar cells
Scott Watkins’ work on flexible solar cells has been called one of 10 ideas that could change your life. Scott is a research leader in organic photovoltaics, looking at ways to develop wafer thin...
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Star mum
At work, she operates radio telescopes across Australia to help astronomers learn more about the origins of the Universe. At home, she raises three energetic kids. Meet Kate Brooks, Deputy Head of...
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Dish Horticulture – plant it and they will grow
The second of Tidbinbilla’s new antennas is about to start growing While work continues on Deep Space Station 35 (DSS35), the first of the new 34 metre dishes being built at the Canberra Deep Space...
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MAVEN to Mars via Canberra
In a ‘text book’ launch, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft roared off its pad at Cape Canaveral and disappeared into a cloud covered Florida sky, heading off on a 10-month, 500 million kilometre journey to Mars....
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Nova shines over The Dish
Last week, amatuer astronomers reported the sighting of a ‘nova‘ near ‘The Pointers’ (not far from the Southern Cross). Nova Centaurus 2013 first appeared as a magnitude 5 star (visible in dark sky...
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Spot the space station
You’ve seen it in Gravity, being shredded by a cloud of hugely destructive space debris and now you can see it in real life (and in one piece I might add) from your very own backyard. Yes – I’m talking...
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Students Served Science on NASA Dishes
Year 7-9 ‘space explorers’ from Melrose High School in the ACT became the first students in Australia to perform ‘real science’ using large antenna dishes in NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN). With the...
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CSIRO scientist scores Grote Reber Medal
On Mondays, his ground-breaking radio telescope was used to hold up his mother’s washing line. He thought the Big Bang was bunk. And in later years he drove his homemade electric car, called Pixie,...
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