Dozens of Science Week stories around Tasmania Join a NASA astrobiologist and 150 roving scientists for a drink – Hobart Beer quenches scientists’ thirst for knowledge (online and live in Tassie) Plant-powered cars, Jurassic poop, the science of piracy, and more at Festival of Bright Ideas 2022 – Hobart Bugs, bats, brains, and space junk:…
Dozens of Science Week stories around Queensland 1500+ rockets to be simultaneously launched around Australia Making waves: a century of Australian coral reef science – South Brisbane Explaining cancer biology to young people through pop culture, art and augmented reality – online Feeding caterpillars to get butterflies – Kuranda The cultural connection of Indigenous astronomy…
Dozens of Science Week stories around Victoria Starlings flock, humans crowd, drones… zizz? Explore the swarm in this exhibition-cum-experiment – Parkville Saturn up close – Ballarat Hydrogen energy 101 – Hawthorn Moving images: virtual reality helps us accept death – Carlton A band of physicists go on a road trip to explain quantum and dark…
Dozens of Science Week stories around the Territory An AI ‘Time Machine’ and a health lab on wheels – Darwin and Northeast Arnhem Land Students survey the Territory’s soil, from Darwin’s dirt to sands in Central Australia – multiple locations across NT Will we have enough prawns for Christmas? – Darwin Wattle vs woollybutt: what…
Dozens of Science Week stories around New South Wales Dr Karl, dinosaurs, furry friends, and a T-Rex autopsy show: all on the Sydney Science Trail – Mt Annan and Sydney Fighting superbugs, big bad tech, caring for sky country, and microfactories making new materials from old – Sydney Science Festival is back Saving the planet…
Dozens of Science Week stories around ACT Footy Quake: can a rugby crowd register on the Richter scale? – GIO Stadium Science in the shopping centres Flying drones, engineering defence, art-robots, and biology balloons: meet the women of science and art – Canberra What do experts make of the ‘science’ in Mars Attacks!? – Acton…
Images available for media use. Blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon) — a long-lived wattle with cream ball-shaped flowers. Native to eastern states and SA, it’s now also found in WA, often as a feature or shade tree. Blackwood is used for furniture and guitars; and by Indigenous people for food, medicine and weapons. Boab (Adansonia gregorii) — found in…
Congratulations to the 35 recipients of National Science Week grants for 2022. Minister for Science and Technology The Hon Melissa Price MP said “Science plays a huge part in our daily life, even if we don’t always realise. The great events and activities in National Science Week are not only fun and interactive, but they…
Media release from the Hon Melissa Price MP, Minister for Science and Technology A quantum technology road trip, robotics competitions and an inflatable digestive system ‘poo palace’ are just some of the science projects being supported by the Morrison Government’s 2022 National Science Week grants. Thirty-five public science projects will share in more than $500,000…
Associate Professor Siok Tey is researching treatments that will improve the survival and quality of life for her patients with leukaemia or other blood cancers. “Bone marrow transplantation is an important form of treatment for blood cancers, but it cures only two-thirds of patients,” says Siok, a clinician researcher at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute…