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Myth-busting menopause; 3D printing pills; sleeping with cancer; and a sugar mountain in Melbourne

Great National Science Week health stories up for grabs now around Australia

  • The Vagina Bible author on menstruation, menopause, and medical mythology – Kensington, NSW
  • Sleeping with cancer – Westmead, NSW
  • Phage therapy: an alternative to antibiotics? – Westmead, NSW
  • Follow the journey of food from lips to lavatory in a giant inflatable Poo Palace – Newcastle, NSW
  • Design and 3D print pills: ask a pharmacist how and why – Woolloongabba, QLD
  • Giant Sugar Mountain: See how much sugar you will consume in your lifetime – Melbourne, VIC

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

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Canine happiness 101; vampire movie science; galactic green-thumbs; your ‘visual brain’; and speaking for trees

Thursday 15 August

Highlights from day 6 of National Science Week

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

VIC: Canine happiness 101: if dogs could talk, you might be shocked – Melbourne

NSW: Creative genius: discover your ‘visual brain’ – Sydney

ACT: Want to work as a scientist in government? – Canberra

VIC: How to grow a Martian garden – Wodonga

QLD: What the froth? Science in the brewery – Gladstone

SA: Meet the scientists who speak for the trees – Adelaide

NSW: Sleeping with cancer – Westmead

WA: The science of beer – Joondalup

WA: 140,000 years in 30 minutes at Scitech Planetarium – Perth

ACT: Fang-tastic. For the love of bats, vampires and pop-culture flick, Blade – Canberra

NT: Be a Top End biosecurity expert for the day – Katherine

National: Your smartphone pics could help scientists keep an eye on water – online

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Counting koalas; quantum future; space entrepreneur; and find love at The Love Lab

Tuesday 13 August

Highlights from day 4 of National Science Week

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

NSW: Meet the woman who co-founded space companies on three continents – Sydney

NSW: Find love at the Love Lab – Sydney

National: How do you count koalas? – online (NSW & QLD talent)

QLD: How will quantum reshape Queensland and its future economy?

VIC: Science and community forum on the future of the Otway Ranges – Colac

TAS: Space treasures, meteorites, and a Planetarium show on tour

NT: First Nations science and culture for conservation

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Performance art in zero gravity; ‘bad’ fungi; Tassie wildlife caught on camera; 3D printed meds; and Matt the Feral Cat

Friday 16 August

Highlights from day 7 of National Science Week

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

NSW: Space life meets art in zero gravity – Sydney

QLD: Should we 3D print pills? – Brisbane

TAS: Get hooked on Nature’s soap operas – Launceston

VIC: How to grow a Martian garden – Bendigo

NT: 9-metre whale puppet tells ‘The Whale’s Tale’ – Darwin

WA: Matt the Feral Cat: make & meet this feline fiend – Albany

TAS: Vaginal vignettes: Sex in the animal kingdom – Hobart

ACT: Ghost Trees: inside the ‘digital memory’ of trees – Canberra

SA: 3D Printing, VR, Robotics, Laser Cutting and more – Adelaide

QLD: When ‘bad’ fungi attacks: is there a doctor in the forest? – Julatten

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Humpback highway; Hedy Lamarr; fake blood; surviving nature; and a 9-metre whale puppet

Wednesday 14 August

Highlights from day 5 of National Science Week

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

VIC: Hedy Lamarr’s Hollywood glamour and scientific genius on stage – Bendigo & Melbourne

NSW: Celestial Emu premier with Gamilaroi astrophysicist Karlie Noon and dancer Daniel Mateo

ACT: Surviving in the wilderness without an iPhone or having to drink your own wee

NSW: Satellites, space junk and the future of our dark night skies

WA: Bug Barcode Blitz to map the state’s creepy crawlies – online

NT: 9-metre whale puppet tells The Whale’s Tale at Darwin Festival

NSW: Whale snot, poop and other mysteries on the ‘Humpback Highway’

TAS: Eavesdrop on bats, bitterns, and other animals – online

SA: Giant ancient kangaroos, Tasmanian tigers, and the history of Naracoorte Caves – online

National: 200+ schools make fake blood

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Bugging bats and birds; NASA’s space dunny; and the man who invented Vegemite

Monday 12 August

Highlights from day 3 of National Science Week

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

ACT: Meet the inventor making steel from old tyres

SA: Giant wombat, 2.5 metre kangaroo, Tasmanian tigers, and cool caves – online, via Naracoorte

VIC: Breakfast in a petri dish: inside the lab of ‘The Man Who Invented Vegemite’ – Beaufort

TAS: Wired for sound: bugging bats, bitterns, and other animals

NSW: Dark matter on the move

NT: NASA’s $23m space dunny – the orbital outhouse!

TAS: Where the krill are going, and the whales are following – online

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Meet an Aussie astronaut; robots on farms; and the science of chocolate

Sunday 11 August

Highlights from day 2 of National Science Week

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

VIC: A morning with astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg at Scienceworks

NSW: Meet a dinosaur (and others) at Lizard Log at Western Sydney Parklands

QLD: Are robots rolling onto farms? Find out at Ekka

TAS: The science of chocolate – Latrobe

NSW: Can environmental arts activism save the world? – Wyangala

SA: Dancing with diprotodons with the singing palaeontologist Professor Flint – Naracoorte

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Sci-fi art-science; animal vagina surprises; boomerang flights; and please DO touch the dinosaurs

Highlights from day 1 of National Science Week

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

NSW: Saving turtles with a smartphone – Sydney Zoo

VIC: Art-science exhibition explores science fiction – Parkville

QLD: Please touch the dinosaurs: Queensland Museum exhibition supersizes accessibility for visually impaired kids

TAS: Pseudo penises, temporary passages, and other vaginal vignettes from the animal kingdom

ACT: Ghost Trees: big data, art and sound bringing back landscapes lost

ACT: Meet reptiles, daleks, dinosaurs, robots, and more while you’re shopping

NT: Art bringing Miocene megafauna back to life in Alice Springs

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Hollywood glamour-meets-scientific genius; myth-busting menstruation and menopause; and women in space

Women in STEM in the spotlight for National Science Week: interesting people to interview and stories up for grabs now around Australia

  • Performance art in zero gravity; habitat beyond Earth; and the Celestial Emu – Sydney Science Festival goes off planet with women in STEM
  • “It’s a vagina, not a piña colada!”: Meet the internet’s OB/GYN Dr Jen Gunter – Sydney
  • Hedy Lamarr’s Hollywood glamour and scientific genius on stage – Canberra & Victorian tour
  • Meet the woman who invented green steel from old tyres – Canberra
  • Art-science exhibition explores science fiction – Melbourne
  • Today’s women in science on their historical foremothers – State Library of Victoria
  • The Love Lab: discover what really matters, from sex to wearing shoes indoors – Sydney
  • Where the krill are going, and the whales are following – online via Tasmania
  • How science got a woman released from prison – Melbourne

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

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Sci-fi grooves; zero-gravity moves; a 9-metre whale puppet; and Hollywood’s scientific siren Hedy Lamarr

National Science Week entertainment related stories up for grabs now around Australia

  • ‘We’re All Aliens, Baby’: science songs and astrophysicists at a live Planetarium concert – Brisbane
  • Performance art in zero gravity; habitat beyond Earth; what is a space environmentalist? – Sydney
  • Hedy Lamarr’s Hollywood glamour and scientific genius on stage – Canberra & Victorian tour
  • The Love Lab: discover what really matters, from sex to wearing shoes indoors – Sydney
  • An Aussie astronaut, adult ADHD, de-GOOPing wellness, and 150 roving scientists – Hobart
  • 9-metre whale puppet tells The Whale’s Tale – Darwin
  • Giant ancient kangaroos, Tassie tigers, and a singing palaeontologist – online & Naracoorte, SA
  • 140,000 years in 30 minutes: A deep time view of Australia’s epic history – Perth
  • Matt the Feral Cat – make and meet this feline fiend in Albany, WA
  • Do loos flush in space? Out-of-this-world XR, including NASA’s $23m space dunny – Darwin

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

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