National Science Week kicks off in Canberra this Saturday – with 75+ events around ACT:

• Robots, drones, reptiles, performers, expert speakers and food trucks take over The Shine Dome.
• Sense and sensibility: how pseudoscience helps market wellness woo to women.
• Physics meets archaeology: how a new chamber was discovered in the Great Pyramid of Khufu.
• Artists, animators and astronomers present the Universe in four dimensions.
• Meet the medical inventor behind the cochlear ear and a nutrition scientist using one.
• Can Canberra adapt to live with drought, wild weather and climate change? Ask an expert panel.
• A science comedy quiz show that aims to save our species.
• Art inspired by the rocks, minerals, crystals and fossils of Geoscience Australia.
• Spot wildlife with your smartphone in the Great Aussie BioQuest.
• Take the Aha! Challenge and test your brain’s creative insight.

More on these highlights below, and others at www.scienceinpublic.com.au/science-week, and on Twitter at @SciWKMedia.

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