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Science Poem of the Day: 17 August
Today’s poem is from Holding Patterns: physics and engineering poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Erica Jolly Sculpture at Questacon It looks like magic – ...
Science Poem of the Day: 16 August
Today’s poem is from Law & Impulse: maths & chemistry poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Margaret Owen Ruckert chocolate caramel squares when maths ...
Science Poem of the Day: 15 August
Today’s poem is from Holding Patterns: physics & engineering poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Margaret Bradstock Eclipse If the eclipse is a total one, the ...
Science Poem of the Day: 14 August
Today’s poem is from Law and Impulse: maths & chemistry poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Steve Evans Luminous Fruit Pigs bred with implanted jellyfish genes ...
Entertained and Enlightened by the Giants (of Medicine)
Last Wednesday, 7 August, saw a great number of us battling the horrendous Melbourne rain and winds to reach the sold out Wheeler Centre. Drawing everyone in was the prospect of listening to ...
Science Poem of the Day: 13 August
Today’s poem is from Holding Patterns: physics & engineering poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Ron Pretty Christmas Concerto Light and clear day and so ...
Science Poem of the Day: 12 August
Today’s poem is from Earthly Matters: biology & geology poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Carol Jenkins Pollen Down-scale gene lifeboat, wind shifted silt, ...
Science Poem of the Day: 11 August
Today's poem is from Law and Impulse: maths and chemistry poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Mark O'Flynn The Allotropes of Tin [For Roy Tasker] From the sublime ...
Welcome to National Science Week 2013 from Queensland Chief Scientist, Dr Geoff Garrett AO
We need science. It’s part of our lives – all day, every day and everywhere – in the food we eat, clothes we wear, medicine we ingest, money we spend and devices we use. Science is so deeply ...
Science Poetry Competition
We're partnering with Australian Poetry to present the inaugural Australian Poetry Science Poetry Prize. Submissions for the prize opened this morning and will be open until Friday 23 August ...