Latest News
Keep up to date on all the latest Science Week info
Science Takes Centre Stage at South Bank in Brisbane
During National Science Week, the team in the Science Week national office get out and about to see as many events as we can around the country, meet the dedicated teams behind the events, and be ...
Science Poem of the Day #5
Today’s poem is from Earthly Matters: biology & geology poems, published by The Poets Union. Annamaria Weldon Petrichor Petrichor, scent of first rainfall on rock, sedge, sand and trees along ...
Escaping With Science
Every year, National Science Week brings together a wide variety of events and topics in the celebration of science. One of the unique events this year is a surprisingly scientific pop-up escape ...
Little Scientists are a Big Part of Science Week
Young children are naturally curious and passionate about learning. They explore, question and experiment as they discover and wonder about everything around them. This makes science a wonderful ...
Science Poem of the Day #4
Today’s poem is from Holding Patterns: physics & engineering poems, published by The Poets Union. Tricia Dearborn Everything we’re made of comes from earth; we cry, returning borrowed salt; ...
A Merging of Science and the Performing Arts
Each year, National Science Week is celebrated with a wide variety of event styles and approaches sharing the stories of science, and sometimes incorporating different or unusual projects. As ...
Celebrating Australia’s Women in STEM
Who do you imagine when you think of an engineer, scientist, or mathematician? If you’d been asked that forty years ago, it’s pretty likely that you wouldn’t have pictured a woman. Times (and ...
Science Poem of the Day #3
Today’s poem is from Law & Impulse: maths & chemistry poems, published by The Poets Union. Magdalena Ball 10 digits of e tracing the slope of your tangent around a bell curve the ...
Cheeky Neurons Build Neural Networks
It was a busy few days in a bustling building full of fun and exciting science at Canberra’s Science in ACTion science fair. We saw everything from Daleks, slime, fossils and snakes come by us ...
Science Poem of the Day #2
Today’s poem is from Earthly Matters: biology & geology poems, published by The Poets Union. Martin Langford The Silence of the Frogs So many silences. Wharves. Or the silence of caves. The ...