Between Monday 17 and Friday 21 August, sustainability expert, Mars One astronaut candidate and biohacker Dianne McGrath is hosting ‘Ask Me Anything’ sessions on Instagram Stories LIVE. Submit questions on Dianne’s Instagram page. Topics already requested include: biohacking sleep and recovery, and Mars One: status, what it means for Dianne today, and what next? Visit…
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Tech Girls STEM Entrepreneurship Workshop
The team from the Tech Girls Movement Foundation will work with students to identify issues that are important to them. Through various activities, we help students determine how technology (an app) can be used to help solve their important issue. Students learn skills for developing an app and pitching their idea. There will be two…
Shifting Perspectives Premiere
Shifting Perspectives is a short dance film inspired by a recently published conversation between two leaders in the field of synthetic biology (Sarah Richardson and Tom Knight) and their divergent approaches to working with microbial life. Shifting Perspectives seeks to open a multivocal interdisciplinary dialogue across screendance, movement and synthetic biology. The film was developed…
What’s the Matter? West Gippsland Libraries Online Science Week event
Let’s dive into the world of matter. What are the different states? How can we identify them? What if we have something that doesn’t fit into these categories? Enter, oobleck. A non-Newtonian fluid that just won’t behave. Both a liquid and a solid, this slippery, gooey substance forms a solid when you squish it together…
Science Made Beerable
***TICKETS SOLD OUT but the event is still free to stream*** What’s better than an online National Science Week? An online National Science Week with beer. Science Made Beerable are taking this hop-portunity to make you weiser to ale the science that gose into a brew with a live-streamed beer tasting event. We’ll be joined…
The Data Lab: Exploring the future of AI
Join us in the data lab* as we shine a light on the future of data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning. SAHMRI’s Dr Jimmy Breen, bioinformatician extraordinaire, will be your virtual host as we look at what our data says about us and the power it has to change our health. We are what…
Waste Export Ban Webinar
From January 2021, Australia will begin to phase out the exportation of waste plastic, paper, glass and tyres over a four-year period. This is an exciting time for the waste sector as we will begin to see collaborations between governments, private industries and communities that strive to build a new refined and resilient approach towards…
Jervis Bay Bites
Jervis Bay Maritime Museum will provide you with bite-sized insights into innovative future food production in the waters of Jervis Bay. There will be a short presentation by two speakers who discuss the production of future food in the bay. The speakers will include: a representative from South Coast Mariculture outlining mussel farming in Jervis…
Oceans vs Space: Battle of the Final Frontiers
Space and our ocean are often described as the final frontiers of science. But which is more challenging, exciting and intriguing? In this lively online debate between Kat Ross (astronomer) and James Dingley (adventurer), we will find out once and for all, which science rules supreme. Tune in Wednesday evening, 19 August at 7:30pm AWST….
Nine Ways To Keep Your Brain Healthy As You Age
Parramatta Libraries presents this fascinating webinar, available for free online during National Science Week. Researchers from the Western Sydney University MARCS AgeLab will discuss a series of practical, evidence-based strategies you can use to keep your brain healthy as you age. Covering physical, cognitive, and social aspects of brain health, the experts will tell you…