What will you be eating when the world’s population is 10 billion? Fake meat? Insects? Gene edited crops? Agriculture needs to increase food production in a future with a changing climate, fewer resources and limited land. Doing so sustainably will require new technologies and changes to what we eat. Scientists across the world agree a…
Topic: Agriculture
A Taste of Tomorrow: fake meat, sauteed spider and lobster lollies?
The year is 2050 and you have just sat down to your insect burger in a genetically modified plant bun with some seaweed dangling out the side… sounds delicious, right? Taste Tomorrow invites you to taste the future of food right now by ordering a mystery box of sustainable and nutritious goodies. Attend our online…
A Taste of Tomorrow: fake meat, sauteed spider and lobster lollies?
The year is 2050 and you have just sat down to your insect burger in a genetically modified plant bun with some seaweed dangling out the side… sounds delicious, right? Taste Tomorrow invites you to taste the future of food right now by ordering a mystery box of sustainable and nutritious goodies. Attend our online…
A Taste of Tomorrow: fake meat, sauteed spider and lobster lollies?
The year is 2050 and you have just sat down to your insect burger in a genetically modified plant bun with some seaweed dangling out the side… sounds delicious, right? Taste Tomorrow invites you to taste the future of food right now by ordering a mystery box of sustainable and nutritious goodies. Attend our online…
SciFest Live from the Lab – Malaria, Veterinary Parasitology and VR!
Across National Science Week join the Molecular Parasitology Laboratory from La Trobe University as they talk you through their research activities. Find out about their work on parasites, discover the virtual reality activities they have created and find out what it means to be a parasitologist. Meet the research team and then find out about individual…
Roxby’s Virtual Science Week
Roxby’s Virtual Mad Science Week is a free, virtual, hands-on event designed to inspire the children and youth of the Roxby Downs community. The week will feature instructional content for experiments to do at home with activity packs, as well as local knowledge Scientist’s from the Roxby Downs and surrounding areas including from BHP, Arid…
STEAMzone Science Festival in 3D
Our FREE STEAMzone Virtual Science Festival will be conducted on the Open Campus of the VirBela 3D Virtual World. Our annual festival will be moving into a 3D virtual world and you can come along from the comfort and safety of your own home…no masks, sanitiser or social distancing required yet you’ll still feel like…
Science Exchange Series – Cropping in a changing climate
From Geraldton to Esperance, the South-West of WA has experienced increasingly variable climate conditions for over a century. With increasingly drier winters and warmer, wetter summers affecting our state’s cropping industry; we need to gather and integrate knowledge from across Science to understand how best to respond to the challenges ahead. Join three UWA experts,…
The Weird the Wacky of the Animal Kingdom plus DeadlyScience
Join us as we take a journey looking at the weird the wonderful and the wacky animals from around the world. Then we cover all things DeadlyScience where we chat about the original scientists and what we do. Don’t miss it.
Science Exchange Series – Visualising a Virus
When dealing with the strange nanoscopic world that is simply too small to see, experiments and data visualisation approaches are vitally important to our understanding of life on this scale. Brady Johnston is a PhD student in structural biology at UWA. Brady will introduce you to how data is collected and presented, leading to famous images…