To reduce the frequency and impact of bushfires, we need better understanding of their behaviour and how we can manage it. We can improve our understanding by studying wildfires, by conducting careful experiments and by learning from Indigenous peoples who have long used fire to care for Country. Join two scientists exploring these approaches, live…
Topic: Environment and Nature
Bird Nests Around the World: Natural wonders with climate clues
Despite their tiny brains, birds are amazing architects, and we can learn a lot from their nest designs – including domes, cups and pendants. How did nest building evolve? Why are nests so diverse? Will birds successfully adapt their nests as the climate warms? To find out, Dr Iliana Medina Guzman has analysed hundreds of…
Science Fair – Moranbah State High School
Welcome to our exciting Science Fair, where science jumps off the page and into your hands! This event is all about exploring, discovering, and having loads of fun with science. You’ll visit a range of interactive stations where you get to experiment, build, and test things for yourself. Take a closer look at tiny things…
Opening of Lizard Haven
Have you ever seen a real-life dragon? We have! Eastern Water Dragons live around our school, sunbaking on rocks and darting into the bushes. This Science Week, we want to create something special just for them—a Lizard Haven! It will be a new garden built by students, full of native plants, big rocks, logs, and…
2025 Marie Curie Lectures: Quantum century – Unlocking the universe’s secrets and shaping our future with Dr Danielle Holmes
100 years ago, quantum physics was born to explain curious behaviour of tiny things. Since then, it has become our most powerful tool that humans possess, not just for increasing our understanding of the world, but for shaping its future. It has unlocked secrets of our universe, such as why stars shine and how migratory…
Plants in Space
Join us for an immersive (free!) experience where science meets imagination! In this multi-session event aimed at students from year levels 5 – 8, you’ll step into the role of an astrobotanist and explore the vital role of plants in space exploration. Design your own space plant with the Australian Space Discovery Centre, and discover…
The Secret History of Sharks
Join us for an evening with internationally renowned palaeontologist Professor John Long as he dives deep into the mysterious past of one of nature’s most formidable creatures — the shark! As part of National Science Week, Professor Long will present his groundbreaking new book, The Secret History of Sharks: The Rise of the Ocean’s Most Fearsome…
Lunch Time Food, Fire and Fear!
Centralian Middle School will celebrate National Science Week by conducting fun experiments for students during lunch time. We will make fireproof paper, rainbow lemonade, large-scale elephant toothpaste, test physics with a bowling ball to the face and have a go at eating insects. On Monday, students will make pictures on paper and then soak it…
FOREVER Exhibition at MOD.
Beginnings, endings & everything in between. In this exhibition, experience time in new ways. Traverse past, present and future by navigating the blurred lines between these states of being. Look at the world, ourselves and our actions differently. Evoke memories through scent. Explore the changes that mark your ageing. And though it may be confronting,…
Designing the Built Environment at the Newcastle Museum
Step into the Arckit Design Studio! Using a design thinking process and the innovative Arckit architecture kit students will explore sustainability within the context of architecture. Working in small groups, participants will be recruited by a top Architecture firm to design, build and present their solution to a sustainability design challenge. The hands-on sessions help…