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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 ...
Science Week truly is a national festival
National Science Week officially kicks off today. Communities right around the country have begun to run an impressive array of science events for the public. And we really mean *right around* ...
Science Poem of the Day #1
To celebrate National Science Week we’ll be publishing a science poem of the day this week. The poems are from the Science Made Marvellous series of poetry books published in National Science ...
Magnify your curiosity: Arts Vs Science Festival in Lismore
Bringing its own unique mix of science and art to The Quad for a one day festival on 18 August 2018 to celebrate National Science Week, the Arts Vs Science Festival is Lismore’s own petri dish of ...
Experimental rhyming or scientific stanzas?
Do you find technical talk and scientific jargon sometimes feels like an alien language or scrambles your brain into mush? Do you sometimes feel creative writers are also speaking another ...
Ready, Set, Go!
What comes but once a year? What brings joy and wonderment to young and old alike? Yes, the annual celebration of all things amazing, astonishing and just plain mind-boggling – National Science ...