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See highlights by day:

Saturday 10: Sci-fi art-science; animal vagina surprises; boomerang flights; and please DO touch the dinosaurs

Sunday 11: Meet an Aussie astronaut; robots on farms; and the science of chocolate

Monday 12: Bugging bats and birds; NASA’s space dunny; and the man who invented Vegemite

Tuesday 13: Counting koalas; quantum future; space entrepreneur; and find love at The Love Lab

Wednesday 14: Humpback highway; Hedy Lamarr; fake blood; surviving nature; and a 9-metre whale puppet

Thursday 15: Canine happiness 101; vampire movie science; galactic green-thumbs; your ‘visual brain’; and speaking for trees

Friday 16: Performance art in zero gravity; ‘bad’ fungi; Tassie wildlife caught on camera; 3D printed meds; and Matt the Feral Cat

Saturday 17: The Poo Palace; fun with rocket scientists; your brain on AI; sharks in Dubbo; and bird-spotters wanted

Sunday 18 / Final Day: Plants in space; FarmBots; a Poo Palace; saving turtles with a smartphone; and swamp life with ‘Ginger’ the dinosaur

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Arts, Education, Entertainment, Environment, Health, Indigenous, Women in Science.

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Great National Science Week First Nations science stories up for grabs now around Australia

•  Celestial Emu: Connecting Sky Country and astronomy – Sydney
• The Indigenous night sky, bush food, and technology – Redfern, NSW
• Telescopes and TikTok: meet Indigenous astrophysicist and social media star Kirsten Banks – Albury, NSW
• Help us find the birds at Red Lily Lagoon – Jilkminggan, NT
• 140,000 years in 30 minutes: The Earth Above: A Deep Time View of Australia’s Epic History – Perth
• First Nations science and culture for conservation – Mamadawerre, NT
• Indigenous technology: Noongar axe making – Kondinin, WA
• Art-science exhibition explores science fiction – Melbourne
• Why can’t you see the stars? Why Australia needs to be kept in the dark – online

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

[Read more…] about Celestial emu; Traditional Knowledge saving the planet; and TikTok’s favourite Indigenous astrophysicist

Dozens of Science Week stories around Tasmania

• An Aussie astronaut, adult ADHD, de-GOOPing wellness, and 150 roving scientists – Hobart
• Tracking cats, robot cars, drones, fossils, and more at Festival of Bright Ideas – Hobart
• Vaginal vignettes: Sex in the animal kingdom – Hobart
• Ice blasts, penguin eggs, and mobile Antarctic classroom – multiple locations
• Nature’s jewels: The tiny, enchanting world of slime moulds – Westbury
• Where the krill are going, and the whales are following – online
• The art and science of relaxing your nervous system – Kingston, Cygnet, Deloraine & Ulverstone
• Tasmanian wildlife caught on camera – Launceston & Hobart
• Space treasures on tour – multiple locations, West Coast and North West Tasmania
• Can you see the stars? Dark skies versus light pollution

More on each of the highlights below.

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

[Read more…] about TAS: De-GOOPing wellness; wildlife caught on camera; Antarctic blasts; and vaginal vignettes from the animal kingdom

Dozens of Science Week stories around ACT

• Step into the ‘digital memory’ of an endangered forest at the NFSA – Canberra
• Want to work as a scientist on Capital Hill? – Canberra
• Meet the inventor of green steel from old tyres – Canberra
• Early signs of blindness you can stop – Canberra
• Surviving in the wild without an iPhone or having to drink your own wee – Canberra  
• Fang-tastic: For the love of bats, vampires and pop-culture flick, Blade – Canberra
• Shop alongside reptiles, daleks, dinosaurs, robots, and more – multiple locations
• Can you see the stars? Dark skies versus light pollution

More on each of the highlights below.

[Read more…] about ACT: Fang-tastic science; shopping with daleks; ‘green steel’ from old tyres; and inside the ‘digital memory’ of trees

Science Week stories abound across Queensland

• Please touch the dinosaurs: museum accessibility for visually impaired kids – Brisbane
• Should we 3D print pills? – Brisbane
• ‘We’re All Aliens, Baby’: science songs and astrophysicists at a live Planetarium concert – Brisbane
• What the froth? Raise a glass to innovation and discovery at ‘Science in the Brewery’ – Gladstone
• Play with rocket scientists – Springfield Central & Toowoomba
• When ‘bad’ fungi attacks: is there a doctor in the forest? – Julatten
• How will quantum reshape Queensland? – Fortitude Valley
• The Sound of Symmetry: the interplay between maths and music – Cloncurry & Brisbane
• Are robots rolling onto farms? – Royal Queensland Show, Brisbane
• Can you see the stars? Dark skies versus light pollution

More on each of the highlights below.

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

[Read more…] about QLD: FarmBots; 3D printed meds; and ‘accessible’ dinosaurs

National Science Week in VIC

Dozens of Science Week stories around the state

• Art-science exhibition explores science fiction – Parkville
• A morning with Aussie astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg at Scienceworks
• How to grow a Martian garden – Melbourne, Shepparton, Wodonga & Bendigo
• Breakfast in a petri dish: inside the lab of ‘The Man Who Invented Vegemite’ – Beaufort
• What should be the future of the Otway Ranges? – Colac
• Hedy Lamarr’s Hollywood glamour and scientific genius on stage – Bendigo & Melbourne
• Today’s women in science on their historical foremothers – State Library of Victoria
• Canine happiness 101: if dogs could talk, you might be shocked
• Raising rarity: saving Victoria’s most threatened plants – Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne
• Dark matter on the move – Ballarat, Dandenong & Melbourne
• Can you see the stars? Dark skies versus light pollution

More on each of the highlights below.

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

[Read more…] about VIC: Scifi art, genetics and the law, the future of the Otways

National Science Week Education stories up for grabs now around Australia

• Neurodiversity, teenage attention spans and the school-aged brain
• How do you count koalas?
• 200+ schools make fake blood
• Inflatable DNA: meet the molecular biologist-turned-balloon artist teaching kids what makes them unique – multiple locations, ACT
• You could have a science career in government – Canberra
• Tracking cats, robot cars, drones, fossils, and more at Festival of Bright Ideas – Hobart
• Ice blasts, penguin eggs, and mobile Antarctic classroom – multiple locations, TAS
• Naracoorte’s giant ancient kangaroos, Tasmanian tigers, and a singing palaeontologist – online
• Students make stars – multiple locations, NT
• The Indigenous night sky, bush food, and technology – Sydney
• Bug Barcode Blitz: WA’s creepy crawlies need your help
• Family tree of Tassie devils – Sydney
• Why can’t you see the stars? – online

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

[Read more…] about Decoding the ‘school-aged brain’; counting koalas; science careers in government; and inflatable DNA

Dozens of Science Week stories around Western Australia

• 140,000 years in 30 minutes: The Earth Above: a full-dome planetarium show
• Bomb bacteria with beanbags at the Broome STEM Festival
• How to grow a Martian garden
• Meet dark matter hunters and quantum experts
• Bug Barcode Blitz: WA’s creepy crawlies need your help
• What happens when beer brewing goes wrong?
• Unbreakable bones, black holes, Shark Bay, and fantastic rays and where to find them – meet the top young scientists brought to WA by Forest Research Foundation to conduct their research
• Find out about the secret maths of crochet… with cocktails
• Matt the Feral Cat – make and meet this feline fiend in Albany
• Noongar axe making: Indigenous technology and knowledge
• Can you see the stars? Dark skies versus light pollution

More on each of the highlights below.

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

[Read more…] about WA: Black holes, bug blitz, beer science, and Matt the Feral Cat