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Blade Runner, ballistics, birdsongs, and a First Nations food garden

Dozens of Science Week stories around ACT

  • Space, robotics, and engineering with LEGO: science while you shop in Canberra’s malls.
  • First Nations food and medicine in the National Museum’s garden.
  • Pew-pew! Fact or fiction in Hollywood ballistics.
  • Biodiversity offsets to funding threatened species: the maths of environmental policies.
  • Blade Runner: what do neuroscientists and bioethics experts think?
  • Keeping brains young with creative computing for seniors.
  • Kooo-koo-kaa-kaa, croak, screeee… What is Australia’s favourite animal sound?

More on these highlights below.

Scientists, experts and event organisers are available for interview throughout Science Week.

Read on for direct contact details for each event, or contact Tanya Ha – tanya@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0404 083 863.

Visit ScienceWeek.net.au/events to find more stories in your area. Media centre here. Images for media here.

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Megafauna, micro-photos, an AI health-revealing ‘Time Machine’, and painting in a Sea of Light

Dozens of Science Week stories around the Territory

  • Paint with a UV torch at ‘Sea of Light’, a light installation at MAGNT.
  • A health lab on wheels and AI ‘time machine’ shows impact of disease – Darwin, Daly River, and Tiwi Islands.
  • Young Territorians compete to take the best micro-photos.
  • How did megafauna-filled Alcoota lose its giant birds, wombats and marsupial lions, and become Australia’s red centre?
  • Limurr dharr djiwarr: learning on Country.
  • Kooo-koo-kaa-kaa, croak, screeee… What is Australia’s favourite animal sound?

More on these highlights below.

Scientists, experts and event organisers are available for interview throughout National Science Week.

Read on for direct contact details for each event, or contact Tanya Ha – tanya@scienceinpublic.com.au, 0404 083 863.

Visit ScienceWeek.net.au/events to find stories in your area using the event listing.

Media centre here. Images for media here.

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Science vs fake news, dark matter art, planet-saving urban forests, and diving to the bottom of the Mariana Trench

Saturday 12 August: highlights from day one of National Science Week

Researchers, experts, and other interesting people available for interview around the country.

NSW: A writer, a broadcaster and an AI expert discuss science in the age of fake news.

NSW: Nicole Yamase: the first Pacific Islander to visit the deepest point of the Mariana Trench.

VIC: Can art shed light on invisible dark matter?

ACT: First Nations food and medicine with Wiradjuri man Adam Shipp.

SA: Tree scientist encourages gardeners to grow the urban forest.

TAS: Science, music, Indigenous astronomy at NOCTURNA Dark Sky Retreat.

WA: Finding aliens, love, energy, innovation, and the bottom of the ocean at The Anti-conference.

WA: Why it’s good to have a bird brain.

Read on for more on these, including direct event contact details.

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An Aussie astronaut, plants fighting climate change, scientists’ drag battle, and a giant Poo Palace

Dozens of Science Week stories around New South Wales

  • An Aussie astronaut, art therapy, deep sea science, space junk and Sky Country –all at the Sydney Science Festival.
  • Newcastle’s giant inflatable Poo Palace recreates the journey of food, from lips to loo.
  • What’s the role of plants, wetlands and phytoplankton in tackling climate change?
  • What’s the secret to happiness? An 85-year-long scientific study has some ideas.
  • Scientists by day; drag performers by night. Who will be crowned the ‘ultimate drag scientist’?
  • Who makes the ‘laws’ in space? When do you need to call a space lawyer? Who can mine the moon? – Newcastle.
  • Indigenous science, song-lines and stars – Wollongong.
  • Meet the super microbes who could save us from plastic – Orange, Sydney & Newcastle.
  • Marshmallow bazookas, leaf-blower levitation, and explosive liquid nitrogen with Dr Graham in Goulburn.
  • Become a poo, race a solar car, explore the moon – Newcastle.
  • Floods, storms and the Wyangala dam: a First Nation perspective – Wyangala.

More on these highlights below.

Scientists, experts and event organisers are available for interview throughout National Science Week.

Read on for direct contact details for each event, or contact Tanya Ha – tanya@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0404 083 863.

Visit ScienceWeek.net.au/events to find more stories in your area.

Media centre here. Images for media here.

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Dr Karl, beer science, animal private parts, and Indigenous astronomy at a dark sky party

Dozens of Science Week stories around Tasmania

  • Dr Karl: what’s the science in future careers?
  • Science, music, Indigenous astronomy at NOCTURNA Dark Sky Retreat.
  • Cats, chemicals, brains, stress, and space junk: young scientists tour Tasmania.
  • Multi-chambered vaginas, elongated clitorises, pseudo-penises and more: improv and 3D-printed animal vaginas reveal the world of female reproduction.
  • Experimental beers with three independent breweries and two thirsty scientists.
  • Citizen scientists wanted to investigate microplastics.
  • Racing robots, seed bombs, an augmented reality sandpit, and more at the Festival of Bright Ideas.
  • How the Southern Ocean is keeping the planet from overheating.
  • Kooo-koo-kaa-kaa, croak, screeee… What is Australia’s favourite animal sound?

More on these highlights below.

Scientists, experts and event organisers are available for interview throughout National Science Week.

Read on for direct contact details for each event, or contact Tanya Ha – tanya@scienceinpublic.com.au, 0404 083 863.

Visit ScienceWeek.net.au/events to find stories in your area using the event listing.

Media centre here. Images for media here.

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Spider crabs, science denial, and a play by ChatGPT

Dozens of Science Week stories around Victoria

And 5pm TONIGHT photo opportunity at launch event of Science Week in WA

  • DARK MATTERS exhibition – can art make the invisible universe visible?
  • Solving great spider crab mysteries, without getting wet, sandy or bitten.
  • Is AI the next Shakespeare? See a play written by ChatGPT.
  • Astrophysicists vs science fiction, and a sci-fi costume competition.
  • Should we care about science denialism? Ask psychologists and scientists.
  • Dog happiness and mental health.
  • A band of physicists on a road trip around Victoria to explain quantum and dark matter.
  • Software, sunscreen and STEM Sisters: pop-up science talks outside the Library.
  • What is Australia’s favourite animal sound?

More on these highlights below.

Scientists, experts and event organisers are available for interview throughout Science Week.

Read on for direct contact details for each event, or contact Tanya Ha – tanya@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0404 083 863.

Visit ScienceWeek.net.au/events to find more stories in your area.

Media centre here. Images for media here.

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Bird brains; raising the dead; the rise of AI; a scabby cartoon; and elemental energy.

Dozens of Science Week stories around Western Australia

And 5pm TONIGHT photo opportunity at launch event of Science Week in WA

  • The rise of AI: what are the risks and benefits?
  • Finding aliens, love, energy, innovation, and the bottom of the ocean at The Anti-conference
  • Why it’s good to have a bird brain
  • Bringing the dead back to life: Ask a palaeontologist and archaeologist how
  • ‘Scab’: a Microtoons animation bringing microbiology to people with autism
  • Noongar knowledge and elemental energies from earth, air, water and fire
  • Gems and ancient sea fossils: rocks on earth and in space
  • What is Australia’s favourite animal sound?

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

Scientists, experts and event organisers are available for interview throughout National Science Week.

Direct contact details for each event are below or contact Tanya Ha on tanya@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0404 083 863.

Media centre here. Images for media here.

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Dog happiness; and dark matters – on a roadtrip and in an exhibition

Dozens of Science Week stories around Victoria

  • Can art shed light on dark matter?
  • Dog happiness and mental health
  • A band of physicists go on a road trip to explain quantum and dark matter
  • What is Australia’s favourite animal sound?

More on these highlights below.

Scientists, experts and event organisers are available for interview throughout National Science Week.

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Fighting cancer, tree saviours, archaeology in space, and a First Nations Science Festival

Dozens of Science Week stories around South Australia

  • Nitro Nat and animal encounters at Science Alive! – Showgroundsf
  • Plants in space and the Botanic Gardens, Ngarrindjeri weaving, Indigital augmented reality, and more at Payirri-Apinthirlu Naalityangka: the First Nations Science Festival – Adelaide
  • Can we innovate creativity? – Adelaide
  • Proton therapy for cancer – Adelaide
  • Tree scientist encourages gardeners to grow the urban forest – Aberfoyle Park, Noarlunga, Smithfield Plains, Salisbury, & Enfield
  • Using data to map dolphin migration – Kangaroo Island
  • Archaeology in space and on Earth in a changing climate – Unley
  • Tiny Adventures Inside of Me: A journey into microbiology – Mount Gambier
  • What is Australia’s favourite animal sound?

More on these highlights below.

Scientists, experts and event organisers are available for interview throughout National Science Week.

Read on for direct contact details for each event, or contact Tanya Ha – tanya@scienceinpublic.com.au, 0404 083 863.

Visit ScienceWeek.net.au/events to find stories in your area using the event listing.

Media centre here. Images for media here.

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Powerful new network to ensure Indigenous Australians can benefit from genomic medicine

Media release from the Australian Alliance for Indigenous Genomics (ALIGN)

A national alliance of the brightest minds in genomic science, academia, policy makers, industry and Indigenous leaders will work to break down barriers to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people can benefit from advances in genomic medicine if they choose.

The Australian Alliance for Indigenous Genomics (ALIGN) has been formed to ensure Indigenous Australians are considered and included in the application of genomic medicine – where information from DNA is used to better inform patient risk, diagnosis and care. Supported by Telethon Kids Institute, the Australian National University and 28 other key partners, ALIGN will be governed by an Indigenous Council to ensure every ‘gift’ of DNA provided by Indigenous Australians is treated with respect.

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