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Women in STEM in the spotlight for National Science Week: interesting people to interview and stories up for grabs now around Australia

• Performance art in zero gravity; habitat beyond Earth; and the Celestial Emu – Sydney Science Festival goes off planet with women in STEM
• “It’s a vagina, not a piña colada!”: Meet the internet’s OB/GYN Dr Jen Gunter – Sydney
• Hedy Lamarr’s Hollywood glamour and scientific genius on stage – Canberra & Victorian tour
• Meet the woman who invented green steel from old tyres – Canberra
• Art-science exhibition explores science fiction – Melbourne
• Today’s women in science on their historical foremothers – State Library of Victoria
• The Love Lab: discover what really matters, from sex to wearing shoes indoors – Sydney
• Where the krill are going, and the whales are following – online via Tasmania
• How science got a woman released from prison – Melbourne

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

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

• ‘We’re All Aliens, Baby’: science songs and astrophysicists at a live Planetarium concert – Brisbane
• Performance art in zero gravity; habitat beyond Earth; what is a space environmentalist? – Sydney
• Hedy Lamarr’s Hollywood glamour and scientific genius on stage – Canberra & Victorian tour
• The Love Lab: discover what really matters, from sex to wearing shoes indoors – Sydney
• An Aussie astronaut, adult ADHD, de-GOOPing wellness, and 150 roving scientists – Hobart
• 9-metre whale puppet tells The Whale’s Tale – Darwin
• Giant ancient kangaroos, Tassie tigers, and a singing palaeontologist – online & Naracoorte, SA
• 140,000 years in 30 minutes: A deep time view of Australia’s epic history – Perth
• Matt the Feral Cat – make and meet this feline fiend in Albany, WA
• Do loos flush in space? Out-of-this-world XR, including NASA’s $23m space dunny – Darwin

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

Thought-provoking National Science Week Environment stories up for grabs now around Australia

• A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: from surviving to thriving amid turmoil – Sydney
• When ‘bad’ fungi attacks: is there a doctor in the forest? – Julatten, QLD
• Making steel from old tyres – Canberra
• How do you count notoriously shy koalas at risk of extinction? – Online with QLD & NSW scientists
• A space environmentalist’s POV on cleaning up the Universe – Parramatta, NSW
• The secret life of orangutans – Newcastle
• What should be the future of the Otway Ranges? – Colac, VIC
• Where the krill are going, and the whales are following – online; Tasmanian talent
• Tassie wildlife caught on camera: get hooked on Nature’s soap operas Launceston & Hobart, TAS

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

Media release from The Hon Ed Husic MP, Minister for Industry and Science

12 May 2024

Martians and dinosaurs headline National Science Week 2024, Australia’s biggest annual national celebration of science.

The celebration is now a step closer, with the Australian Government awarding $500,000 in grants to support 32 public science projects right across the country.

The National Science Week Grants provide funding of between $2,000 and $20,000 to support individuals and organisations to deliver community science events.