Kieren Topp

Great National Science Week entertainment stories up for grabs now around Australia

• Come again? The science of better sex and other pleasures at Beaker Street Festival – Hobart
• ‘We’re All Aliens, Baby’: pseudoscience and pop-rock-funk at a Planetarium concert – Brisbane
• Female fossil rockers on tour – Adelaide, Alice Springs, Perth and Geraldton
• Striptease meets ‘dirty’ science in ‘Hard Rock! The Geological Cabaret’ – Dubbo, NSW
• Meet the science-comedy duo behind Zoodle TV’s viral animal videos – Gawler, SA
• Star Trek fan’s message for global peace in ‘positive space films festival’ – Canberra
• Is psychology a science, art, pseudoscience or potato? Experts and comedians debate ‘Psychology is a Freud’ – Melbourne
• Minions meet physics: the science of Despicable Me 2 – Melbourne
• Wine science in song – Adelaide

More on these below and visit ScienceWeek.net.au/events to find more stories in your area.

Great National Science Week arts and entertainment stories up for grabs now around Australia

• Venusian volcanologist and NASA astrophysicist joins Baroque orchestra – Perth
• What does DNA sound like? 80s pop drummer reveals all at the Opera House – Sydney
• Rock Hard! The Geological Cabaret: cocktail hour geology, sharp wit and a shimmer of burlesque. No safety glasses required – Dubbo, NSW
• How the birds got their colours: Dreamtime through circus and dance – Darwin
• Legally blind artist drives multisensory Quantum Year exhibition – Melbourne, Sydney Brisbane
• Can environmental arts activism save the world? – Wyangala & Cowra, NSW
• Outsmart AI and see how the stars of Japan’s ‘Cat Heaven Island’ respond to their own video images in Science Gallery Melbourne’s DISTRACTION exhibition – Melbourne
• Aurora-chasers capture the rarely-seen ‘STEVE’ and other phenomena in Tassie – Hobart
• Dancers with disability pollinate science and inclusion – Canberra
• Giant puppet insects take centre stage – Penrith

More on these below and visit ScienceWeek.net.au/events to find more stories in your area.

Great National Science Week rural and farming stories up for grabs now around Australia

• AI agronomists, seed-planting farmbots and pest-detecting drones: how will farmers use AI to boost sustainability and profit? – Canberra
• Space farmers wanted – Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, and national online
• School students meet the biosecurity experts on the frontline – Katherine and Berrimah, NT
• Grape growing and autonomous tractors: wine science in song – Adelaide, SA
• Is it easier to grow food on Mars than in the South Australian Outback? – Oodnadatta, Andamooka, and Copley, SA
• Cultivating next-gen farmers: school field trips to renewable farms, food labs, and cellar doors – Riverina, NSW
• VR farming, Agbots, and strawberry sundaes at the Ekka – Brisbane

More on these below and visit ScienceWeek.net.au/events to find more stories in your area.

Dozens of Science Week stories around Canberra

• Can AI cultivate sustainable farming?
• Dancers with disability explore bee science through performance
• Can you save the world from a parasite pandemic?
• Meet the molecular biologist twisting balloons to teach healthy eating
• Computer programmers aged 55+ wanted. No experience required
• Snakes, rockets, robots and more while you shop
• Vote for Australia’s most underrated animals

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National Science Week in the Australian Capital Territory is coordinated by Inspiring the ACT. Visit their website: inspiringtheact.org.au.

Dozens of Science Week stories around Victoria

• Why sharks have been around for 500 million years?
• Can nature help us concentrate?
• Artists find meaning in digital distraction
• Psychology is a Freud
• Minions meet physics
• Join the real-world cast of CSI: eDNA
• Vote for Australia’s most underrated animals

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National Science Week in Victoria is coordinated by Inspiring Victoria. Visit their website: inspiringvictoria.org.au.

Dozens of Science Week stories around Western Australia

• Space music with NASA astrophysicist and orchestra
• When will the Milky Way crash into Andromeda?
• Crochet: where maths meets craft, with cocktails
• Carbon-fibre bones, gravity waves, and selfies with atoms
• Vote for Australia’s most underrated animals

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National Science Week in Western Australia is coordinated by Inspiring Western Australia. Visit their website: inspiringwa.org.au.

Dozens of Science Week stories around Northern Territory

• How the birds got their colours
• Be a Top End biosecurity expert for the day 
• Deep space and time exploration in the heart of Australia’s Red Centre 
• Territorians’ ticket to the International Space Station
• Vote for Australia’s most underrated animals

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National Science Week in the Northern Territory is coordinated by Inspired NT. Visit their website: inspirednt.net.

Dozens of Science Week stories around Tasmania

• Science of better sex, death over drinks, and anything glows
• Antarctica is melting. Why should we care?
• ‘CallTrackers’ wanted to record proof of life of nocturnal wildlife
• Aurora-chasers capture the rarely-seen ‘STEVE’ and other phenomena
• Creating black holes, hunting bad bugs and more: young scientists on tour
• Experimenting with beer
• Tracking cats, robot cars, drones, fossils, and other bright ideas
• Vote for Australia’s most underrated animals

More on these highlights below.

National Science Week in Tasmania is coordinated by Inspiring Tasmania. Visit their website: inspiringtas.org.au.

Dozens of Science Week stories around Queensland

• We’re all aliens baby! Planetarium ‘pop-rock-funk’ concert
• T-Rex tooth, saber-tooth skull and prehistoric birds flock to country classrooms
• Why do whales sing and breach when they migrate?
• Citizen science lessons in eco-acoustics, thermal imaging, drones, AI and more
• Join a low carbon picnic and find out what’s on the menu in 2050 and 2100
• Did dinosaurs do maths?
• Sustainability beyond recycling and composting
• Vote for Australia’s most underrated animals

More on these highlights below.

National Science Week in Queensland is coordinated by Inspiring Australia Queensland. Visit their website: inspiringqld.com.au.