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Thanks for a great National Science Week in Queensland
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Thanks for a great National Science Week in Queensland

  • By National Office
  • 19 August, 2013

National Science Week is over for another year, but fantastic science events will continue to take place around the country. There’s so much science around us every day; look for it, get ...

Science Poem of the Day: 18 August
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Science Poem of the Day: 18 August

  • By National Office
  • 18 August, 2013

Today’s poem is from Law & Impulse: maths and chemistry poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Tricia Dearborn Making Pipettes Rolling the hollow rod above the ...

Science Poem of the Day: 17 August
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Science Poem of the Day: 17 August

  • By National Office
  • 17 August, 2013

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
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Science Poem of the Day: 16 August

  • By National Office
  • 16 August, 2013

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
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Science Poem of the Day: 15 August

  • By National Office
  • 15 August, 2013

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
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Science Poem of the Day: 14 August

  • By National Office
  • 14 August, 2013

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)
Science Week News, State Blogs

Entertained and Enlightened by the Giants (of Medicine)

  • By carlysiebentritt
  • 13 August, 2013

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
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Science Poem of the Day: 13 August

  • By National Office
  • 13 August, 2013

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
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Science Poem of the Day: 12 August

  • By National Office
  • 12 August, 2013

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
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Science Poem of the Day: 11 August

  • By National Office
  • 11 August, 2013

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 ...