Join Snowy Hydro this National Science Week to learn all about innovation and how it impacts powering a renewable future. Science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) experts from across the business will host a show and tell with students to explore the future of powering industries. To celebrate National Science Week, Snowy Hydro invites students…
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National Quantum and Dark Matter Road Trip
The National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip is coming to a city or town near you. As a part of National Science Week, a team of scientists and science communicators will travel around Australia, delivering engaging presentations, hands-on activities, pub quizzes and more. The nature of dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries…
NYSF Webinar – Innovation: Powering The Future
Have you wondered what innovations will power your future? Or how advancements in technology in industry like artificial intelligence will influence your career? Tune into our National Science Week webinar Innovation: Powering The Future on Tuesday 15 August at 7pm AEST, featuring Australia’s Chief Scientist Dr Cathy Foley AO PSM, along with the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) CEO Dr Melanie…
A Play Written By ChatGPT
Maybe you’ve heard of ChatGPT…maybe you’ve used it…but how does it actually work? In this show, ChatGPT will generate a three-act play with creative contributions from you, the audience. These words will then be performed by actors as they attempt to humanise the machine-generated scripts of plays that have never been seen before (and possibly…
Science Week at Dunsborough Primary School
The entire school will be completing a in class STEM challenge. Kindy to Year 1 will make a bug catcher. Year 2 and 3’s will make paper aeroplanes. Year 4 and 6’s will be making a mouse trap racer. Year 5’s will make a balloon racer. Five Year 5 and 6 students are holding an…
ClimateWatch: Nature is out of sync and you can help
Everything in nature lives by a clock that is being recalibrated by climate change. Learn how you can help scientists understand these changes with as little as your phone. Scientists across the globe are straining to document the timing of life-cycle events such as flowering onset and migration, a scientific discipline known as phenology. Changes in…
Merimbula Wharf Marine Habitat Restoration Project
This exciting science event at Merimbula Wharf on Thursday 17 August will encompass a presentation on underwater forests and macroalgae rehabilitation by Cayne Layton, researcher and lecturer from the University of Tasmania and IMAS. As well as presentations on the Merimbula Wharf restoration project: Nick Yee description of the science of the project and hoped-for…
Rocks That Shape Australia Exhibition Launch
As part of National Science Week celebrations join Geoscience Australia for the launch of a brand new exhibition exploring how rocks can be valued by Australians for many different reasons, including their economic, historical, cultural and environmental significance. The exhibition is based on Dr Marita Bradshaw’s popular paper The seven rocks that made Australia. Geoscience…
Into the Vault: exploring innovation in the WA Herbarium
The Western Australian Herbarium has been at the forefront of innovation in collecting, documenting, storing and classifying botanical collections since it was formally established in 1929. Join us for a tour of the Western Australian Herbarium in Kensington this National Science Week and discover how we preserve, document and interpret some of the most important…
What Time is it on the Moon?
In this rollicking conversation, Chief Metrologist Dr Bruce Warrington, and Astronomer at Large Prof Fred Watson, will take us on an illustrated journey to reveal some of the very weird and interesting things that happen to time when you’re 100,000 km from Earth. With no agreed time zones on the Moon, and without the handy technology we…