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…
Dr Pengyi Yang plans to transform stem cell research. “Today’s stem cell treatments have been the product of trial and error. My virtual stem cell will allow us to understand what’s happening inside a single stem cell that makes it decide what type of cell it will become, be it hair, skin, muscle, nerve, blood…
12,000 Powerful, Barking, Boobook, Barn, and Masked owl calls found so far Download sample audio here. Images available here. Video available here. Meet the owls here. More about the Australian Acoustic Observatory: acousticobservatory.org. Background information Scientists available for interviews Media release below Media contacts: Ben Keirnan, ben@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0408 184 858; or Tanya Ha, tanya@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0404 083 863. Is…
Sunday 22 August 2021 Highlights from the final day of National Science Week 117 events and exhibitions, 82 online activities, and dozens of great stories and talent. Researchers, experts, and other interesting people available for interview around the country. VIC: Climate change remedies SA: Science at the footy QLD: Save whales, but do we want…