The 30th National Science Week will be held from 15 to 23 August 2026. It’s Australia’s biggest grassroots science festival. Now is the time to start planning your involvement in an initiative that reaches 3 million Australians via more than 2,000 registered events. Here’s how: 1. Plan your 2026 Science Week event Anyone can run…
Highlights from the final day of National Science Week Researchers, experts, and other interesting talent available for interview around the country. NSW: Follow food from lips to lavatory in the giant inflatable Poo Palace – Newcastle NSW: Meet a life-sized Australovenator dinosaur at Science in the Swamp – Centennial Park, Sydney ACT: Dancers with disability…
Highlights from day 8 of National Science Week Researchers, experts, and other interesting talent available for interview around the country. TAS: Beaker Street Festival hits a climax with an evening of sex, science and a giant clitoris puppet – Hobart WA: Female fossil rockers bring a palaeo-music show to Perth QLD: Touring multisensory Quantum Year…
Highlights from day 7 of National Science Week Researchers, experts, and other interesting talent available for interview around the country. NATIONAL: Incredibly weird and wonderful. The winner of ‘Australia’s most underrated animal’, by public vote, will be revealed today TAS: Experimenting with beer – Hobart NSW: Step inside a giant, woolly knitted gut – Gymea…
Highlights from day 6 of National Science Week Researchers, experts, and other interesting talent available for interview around the country. NATIONAL: Space farmers and foodies wanted ACT: Frog saunas and spa treatments fight deadly fungus – Canberra NSW: Psychedelics, flicker light therapy, hypnosis, meditation: meet the scientist working at the edge of consciousness – Sydney…
Highlights from day 5 of National Science Week Researchers, experts, and other interesting talent available for interview around the country. QLD: 3D-printed pills, skin patches and nanomedicine in a Brisbane lab. NT: How the birds got their colours: Dreamtime through circus and dance in Darwin. NATIONAL: Parenting lessons from quokkas, emus, rakali and more –…
Highlights from day 4 of National Science Week Researchers, experts, and other interesting talent available for interview around the country. NSW: Why bushfire season is now year-round, with the Canadian author of Fire Weather and a UNSW Canberra expert QLD: Eco-acoustics, thermal imaging, drones, AI and more: why citizen scientists need upskilling – Gold Coast…
Highlights from day 3 of National Science Week Researchers, experts, and other interesting talent available for interview around the country. WA/NATIONAL: Space farmers wanted! Sow astro seeds and test complex off-planet crop growing conditions to nourish astronauts on Mars and beyond at in-person events in Perth or join the national ‘Grow for launch’ program online….
Highlights from day 2 of National Science Week Researchers, experts, and other interesting talent available for interview around the country. TAS: Top Gear star James May pulls into Hobart during his ‘Explorers – The Age of Discovery’ tour. VIC: Why the gut-immune-brain axis is beautiful and vital – images captured by Melbourne researchers. ACT: Dancers…
Highlights from day 1 of National Science Week Researchers, experts, and other interesting talent available for interview around the country. NATIONAL: Australia is big and full of wild things! CSIRO wants volunteers to find and photograph our flora and fauna. TAS: Why Tasmania is the best place on Earth to see the Southern Lights at…