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?
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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.