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Saturday 20 August 2022

Highlights from the penultimate day of National Science Week

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

• SA: Tree scientist on the vital importance of the urban forest
• NSW: Dr Karl, dinosaurs, furry friends, and a T-Rex autopsy show: all on the Sydney Science Trail – Mt Annan and Sydney
• NSW: The Indigenous night sky, bush food, and technology – Redfern
• TAS: Plant-powered cars, Jurassic poop, the science of piracy, and more at Festival of Bright Ideas
• TAS: Bugs, bats, brains, and space junk: young scientists tour the Apple Isle
• VIC: Insect swarm or giant kinetic sculpture? Explore the swarm in an exhibition-cum-experiment
• WA: How to go green in a regional centre – Geraldton
• SA & WA: A band of physicists go on a road trip to explain quantum and dark matter – Adelaide on Saturday; WA next week

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

[Read more…] about Jurassic poop, tracking space junk, and trees saving cities

Friday 19 August 2022

Highlights from day seven of National Science Week

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

• NSW: Fighting superbugs, big bad tech, cultural burning, and turning human waste into a valuable resource – Sydney Science Festival’s Friday highlights
• TAS: Beer quenches scientists’ thirst for knowledge – online and Hobart
• ACT: Flying drones, engineering defence, art-robots, and biology balloons: meet Canberra’s women of science and art
• SA: Alzheimer’s takes centre stage in acclaimed play – Adelaide, SA
• SA: Smaller, lighter, faster X-rays
• TAS: Plant-powered cars, Jurassic poop, the science of piracy, and more at Festival of Bright Ideas 2022
• TAS: Bugs, bats, brains, and space junk: young scientists tour Tasmania

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

[Read more…] about Superbugs, beer science, biology balloons, and meet Tassie’s bat woman

Thursday 18 August 2022

Highlights from day six of National Science Week

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

• VIC: Underwater spy-cams on the mysterious mass gatherings of great spider crabs – online
• ACT: What do experts make of the ‘science’ in Mars Attacks!?
• TAS: Three planet-saving physicists walk into a pub…
• SA: A band of physicists go on a road trip to explain quantum and dark matter
• VIC: Who wants to be an epidemiologist?
• WA: Astronomy superstar’s journey through space and time

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

[Read more…] about Spy-cams on spider crabs, planet-saving physicists, and what do real scientists think of sci-fi?

Wednesday 17 August 2022

Highlights from day five of National Science Week

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

• NSW: Marie Curie, an inventor of a hair-sized endoscope, and France’s first female astronaut: a Powerhouse of women in science
• NT: An AI ‘Time Machine’ and a health lab on wheels – Gunyangara
• ACT: Flying drones, engineering defence, art-robots, and biology balloons: meet the women of science and art
• VIC: Misinformation puts the Q into 5G
• SA: Insect corn chips and roasted seaweed: what will you be eating in 2050? – online via Adelaide
• QLD: A bottled history of cures and quackery

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

Also today:

• WA: Hot versus cold, the science of sound, and the birth of Planet Earth: at Scitech.
• TAS: Explore the Antarctic landscape in an exhibition and virtual reality film THIN ICE VR.

National Science Week 2022 runs from 13 to 21 August. Media kit at www.scienceinpublic.com.au. Or visit the National Science Week website for more events and activities: www.scienceweek.net.au.

[Read more…] about Insect corn chips, a future health ‘Time Machine’, France’s first female astronaut, and who put the Q into 5G?

ENVIRONMENT highlights from across Australia this National Science Week

• Caring for the rare: meet the people saving Victoria’s species – online via Parliament House, VIC
• How hydrogen could create jobs and cut carbon dioxide – Hawthorn, VIC
• Saving the planet by gardening underwater – Lake Macquarie and Sydney, NSW
• Tree scientist encourages gardeners to grow the urban forest – Adelaide, SA
• Feeding caterpillars to get butterflies – Kuranda, QLD
• Wattle vs Wollemi: what is Australia’s favourite tree? – online

More on these highlights below.

[Read more…] about Why cities need trees; seabed rehab; hydrogen energy 101; and saving species for a living

Tuesday 16 August 2022

Highlights from day four of National Science Week

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

• Online: NASA oceanographer asks what is the sound of colour?
• VIC: Moving images: how real is virtual reality?
• VIC: A band of physicists go on a road trip to explain quantum and dark matter – Bendigo today; Stawell tomorrow
• NSW: Dinosaurs, furry friends, and a T-Rex autopsy show: schools on the Sydney Science Trail
• Online: Explaining cancer biology to young people through pop-culture, art and augmented reality – Brisbane talent
• SA: Meteorites, sea creatures, bush tucker, and carp wars: science stories projected onto landmark buildings – multiple regional locations

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

Also today:

• TAS: The treasures of Tassie’s dark skies with Ulverstone Planetarium principal astronomer
• NT: Take a sneak peek inside the Natural Science Collection storeroom at MAGNT

[Read more…] about Cancer art, the sound of colour, and how real is virtual reality?

Monday 15 August 2022

Highlights from day three of National Science Week

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

• NSW: Unstable internet connection: why we’re addicted to dopamine
• TAS: How an astronomer is helping an ecologist eavesdrop on bats and bitterns – Swansea
• VIC: How hydrogen could create jobs and cut carbon dioxide
• WA: In a pickle: making food go further
• NSW: The future of the Antarctic envisaged by artists and scientists – Wollongong
• WA: Inside a modern-day Noah’s ark conserving Western Australia’s threatened plants
• VIC: Saturn up close – Ballarat
• QLD: Making waves: a century of Australian coral reef science

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

Also today:

• SA: Kindy kids meet marine creatures at the Marine Discovery Centre
• QLD: Cyber, artificial intelligence, and STEM Punks: summit explores our future defence force

[Read more…] about Dopamine addiction, the art of Antarctica’s future, and a modern-day Noah’s ark in Perth

Sunday 14 August 2022

Highlights from day two of National Science Week

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

ACT: Footy Quake: can a rugby crowd register on the Richter scale?
NSW: Fighting superbugs, big bad tech, caring for sky country, and microfactories making new materials from old – Sydney Science Festival is back
NSW: What and where the wild things are in Western Sydney
TAS: How an astronomer is helping an ecologist eavesdrop on bats and bitterns – Swansea
ACT: A band of physicists go on a roadtrip to explain quantum and dark matter – Tharwa
VIC: Step inside the International Space Station and take a selfie
ACT: Science while you shop – multiple locations in Canberra
NT: Students survey the Territory’s soil, from Darwin’s dirt to sands in Central Australia

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

[Read more…] about Bats and bitterns, reinventing rubbish, and will Raiders’ fans register on the Richter scale?

Saturday 13 August

Highlights from day one of National Science Week

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

ACT: Reaching organism: an adults-only marine science show
NSW: Orchids, traditional knowledge, and the plant doctors: the secret science inside the Royal Botanic Garden
NSW: Saving the planet by gardening underwater – Lake Macquarie
NT: Will we have enough prawns for Christmas?
QLD: Cultural connection and Indigenous astronomy with Uncle Wayne Fossey – Logan
VIC: Starlings flock, humans crowd, drones… zizz?  Explore the swarm in this exhibition-cum-experiment
QLD: Feeding caterpillars to get butterflies – Kuranda
WA: Hack a webcam; see inside your cells

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

[Read more…] about Sex in the sea, planting butterflies, and will we have enough prawns for Christmas?

Explore Indigenous Knowledge this National Science Week, 13 to 21 August

Available for interview:

• Kamilaroi water scientist Bradley Moggridge
• Ngarrindjeri sustainable fisher Derek Walker on harvesting pipi in Goolwa
• Caring for Sky Country with Gamilaraay astronomer Karlie Noon in Sydney
• Gomeroi astrophysicist Krystal de Napoli, talking science through stories in NSW & Tas
• The Indigenous Science Experience at Redfern

[Read more…] about Caring for Sky Country, the pipi shuffle, 65,000 years managing water and more