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Sunday 21 August 2015

Highlights from Day 9 of National Science Week

It’s the final day of National Science Week with 760 events and activities, and dozens of great stories and talent, including:

Brisbane: Engineer and test fly paper planes and whirly bird helicopters.

Sydney:

• How hard is it to get scientists to believe BS (bad science)?
• Kids racing single cells through mini moldy mazes in the Slime Mould Cup.
• Indigenous science and scientists, astronomy, artefacts, bushfoods, and demonstrations.

Canberra: Why NASA’s hunt for water in the solar system is the hunt for life.

Melbourne:

• Life under a lens: how cutting-edge microscopes explore cancer cures, infectious diseases, how DNA works, and the impacts of disasters on biodiversity.
• Superbugs, the science of scent, and pharmaceutical science on the big screen.
• The science of chocolate, make your own sherbet, and a special space-guest at Queen Vic Market.

[Read more…] about Scientific bollocks; NASA’s hunt for life; biotech, the virus slayer; and racing single cells in the Slime Mould Cup

Saturday 20 August 2015

Highlights from Day 8 of National Science Week

It’s the penultimate day of Science Week’s nine-day week with 790 events and activities, and dozens of great stories and talent, including:

Brisbane: Superbugs, sea level rise, baby stress, and seabird conservation: Soapbox Science spruiks discoveries in King George Square.

Sydney:

• Fossils, safeguarded seeds at the Australian PlantBank, and face-to-face with a virtual reality dinosaur – all at Mount Annan’s Jurassic Garden.
• Build an ATLAS particle detector with LEGO to reveal its engineering – continues Sunday.
• What can science and Indigenous knowledge tell us about the secret life of eels?

[Read more…] about Up close with a virtual reality dinosaur; on water matter; building LEGO particle detectors; and music for plants?

Science Week highlights for foodies

Wednesday 17 August 2016

Talent, researchers, experts, and other interesting people available for interview and photo opportunities around the country.

• The science of beer, wine and chocolate –Ipswich, South Brisbane and Toowoomba, QLD
• What’s whisky got to do with climate change and could there be a whisky-powered jet engine? – Parkes, ACT
• The science and scent of a Sav Blanc – North Adelaide, SA
• Drones in the vines – Pokolbin, NSW
• The science of chocolate, make your own sherbet and a special space-guest at Queen Vic Market – Melbourne, VIC
• Gluco-what? Poly-huh? The science of what’s in our food and on the label – Ultimo, NSW
• DNA: what makes fruit a fruit, and a human a human? – Falcon, WA
• Make your own gin with scientific equipment – Canberra, ACT
• Fads, facts and a tasting tour of a training restaurant – Geraldton, WA

… and there’s more on each below.

Find more National Science Week events online at www.scienceweek.net.au  [Read more…] about The scent of a Sav Blanc; fats, fads and navigating nutrition; and a whisky-powered jet engine?

It’s day five of Science Week’s nine-day week with 770 events and dozens of great stories and talent, including:

Canberra:

• Whisky business: what’s whisky got to do with climate change and could there be a whisky-powered jet engine?
• An obsession with penguins wins ANU’s Ceridwen Fraser ACT Scientist of the Year.
  She has made 15 trips to Antarctica studying how species survive in extreme conditions through the study of volcanoes, genetics and animal migration.

Sydney:

• All the innovation leaders at one spot down to business with innovation—the two-day AFR Innovation Summit.
• Experts dissect science denial.
• Schools explore Indigenous Science @ Redfern.

[Read more…] about My room had 1,200 penguins. A whisky-powered jet engine? Science denial and bullshit. Innovation summit in Sydney

Tech highlights from National Science Week

Tuesday 16 August 2016

Local and international talent, researchers, experts, and other interesting people available for interview and photo opportunities around the country.

• Robots in NASA’s search for ‘Terra-Nova’? – SA, NSW and ACT
• Flying robocops! Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems – Adelaide, SA
• Cryptic questions on cyber security – Adelaide, SA
• What do robots and the Space Age represent for minerals and wealth? – Newcastle, NSW
• All things quantum, from computing to transport – Carlton, VIC
• Teaching with technology in the 21st Century – Melbourne, VIC

… and there’s more on each below.

Find more National Science Week events online at www.scienceweek.net.au.   [Read more…] about Flying robocops; cyber security; and what space robots are next for NASA?

Innovation-focused events around Australia

Tuesday 16 August 2016

Local and international talent, researchers, experts, and other interesting people available for interview and photo opportunities around the country.

• Where is Australia’s innovative future headed? The inaugural AFR Innovation Summit ­– Pyrmont, NSW
• What do robots and the Space Age represent for minerals and wealth? – Newcastle, NSW
• From the sheep’s back to the resources boom: what’s next? – Brisbane, QLD
• World Biotech Tour comes to Scitech – West Perth, WA
• What will NASA’s search for ‘Terra Nova’ yield? – SA, NSW and ACT
• Can smart technology save our planet? – Ultimo, NSW
• A multinational engineering company is building bridges from sticks, string and cardboard, with kids – Darwin, NT
• Surveying oceans with robots – Launceston, TAS
• The global biohacking revolution – Eveleigh, NSW

… and there’s more on each below.

Find more National Science Week events online at www.scienceweek.net.au.  [Read more…] about Bounty from space science; biotech; and building bridges and bright young minds

Indigenous science stories from National Science Week

Tuesday 16 August 2015

Talent, researchers, experts, and other interesting people available for interview and photo opportunities around the country.

• Students explore Indigenous science, artefacts, bushfoods and demonstrations – Sydney, NSW
• Neural Knitworks to stop sporting concussions – Sydney, NSW
• The science of weaving and super seeds – Narrung, SA
• Boomerangs, bush tucker, rockets and robots: traditional tool making meets contemporary science – Balga, WA
• Aboriginal science at the museum – Albury, NSW
• Howling wood to talk to distant neighbours – Wagga Wagga, NSW
• Walk the walk of the ancient Aboriginal people – Eden, NSW
• Astronomy in Uluru – Yulara, NT

… and there’s more on each below.

Find more National Science Week events online at www.scienceweek.net.au.   [Read more…] about Astronomy at Uluru; the science behind boomerangs; and #footyneurons

Lifestyle stories from National Science Week

Tuesday 16 August 2016

Talent, researchers, experts, and other interesting people available for interview and photo opportunities around the country.

• Are you a human or an ecosystem? What can we learn from ancient DNA? – Adelaide, SA
• Risky business or worried well? The science of why and what we fear – Melbourne, VIC
• 2084: How future medicine will create a happier world – University of Sydney, NSW
• Meet the Mars Lab’s rovers and step inside the Large Hadron Collider – Ultimo, NSW
• Make your own perfume and fabric dye with flowers – Hopetoun, WA
• So you think you can science? Vote for your favourite science staff video – National

… and there’s more on each below.

Find more National Science Week events online at www.scienceweek.net.au.    [Read more…] about Floral fragrances; future medicine; and science, fear and Facebook

Environment and energy highlights from Science Week: 13-21 August

Monday 15 August 2016

• The search for the next young David Attenborough – South Brisbane, QLD
• What’s next for renewables? Explore the CSIRO Energy Centre – Newcastle, NSW
• What’s happening down south and why should we care? – Hobart and Launceston, TAS
• Are plant barcodes the future of conservation? – Kings Park, WA
• Which ten species would you save from extinction? – Sydney, NSW
• Solar innovation for the harsh Aussie environment – Darwin, NT
• Corals and tree rings tell tales of our past climates – East Maitland, NSW
• The Big Climate Trivia Night – Civic, ACT
• Levee tour: see a city’s flood defences – Wagga Wagga, NSW

… and there’s more on each below.

Find more National Science Week events online at www.scienceweek.net.au  [Read more…] about Looking for the next young Attenborough, energy innovation, and what would you save from extinction?