Today’s poem is from Law & Impulse: maths & chemistry poems, published by The Poets Union. Tricia Dearborn Making Pipettes Rolling the hollow rod above the bunsen, blue flame glowing orange where fire embraces glass, turning it in the fingertips watching for something almost ineffable, the particular shine that denotes a particular malleability. Then taking…
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Take the plunge with Virtual Reef Diver
Each year National Science Week partners with the ABC and some of Australia’s talented researchers to create a national project that everyone around Australia, wherever their location, can participate in. The project involves real data collection that scientists need our help to gather through citizen science. Over the years the projects have seen Australians doing…
Science Poem of the Day #8
Today’s poem is from Earthly Matters: biology & geology poems, published by The Poets Union. Michael Sharkey And So Good Night Curious right to the end, Lavoisier ordered a friend to make sure to look close at his eyes when the blade had just severed his head. He told him he’d blink if he had…
Jam-Packed Final Weekend
How was your sciencing this week? Still want more? Well, you’re in luck – because the final weekend of National Science Week 2018 is jam-packed with exciting events to experience, soak up and enjoy! Whatever style you are after – family outing, workshop, music performance, movie night – National Science Week has you covered. Art, chemistry,…
Science Poem of the Day #7
Today’s poem is from Holding Patterns: physics & engineering poems, published by The Poets Union. Magdalena Ball Six Flavours of Quark Up, down strange, charmed bottom and top, that’s the six. You know them; mapped them; found them when no one else even thought to look. I see them lined in pretty rows well, not…
Science in Surprising Spaces
When you think about science, where is it taking place? In a laboratory? In a science centre? How about a doughnut shop? With National Science Week well underway, events have already been happening in some peculiar locations around Australia. So far venues have included a toy shop, a distillery, an art gallery and a stadium…
Science Week Gets Virtual
Participating in Science Week can be an immersive experience – with all the senses stimulated – the bang of a hydrogen balloon explosion, the squelch of oobleck, the taste of a fine wine, the smell of echidna scat, the visual and emotional inspiration of seeing new wonder dawning on faces… But there are plenty of…
Science Poem of the Day #6
Today’s poem is from Law & Impulse: maths & chemistry poems, published by The Poets Union. Gerry Jacobson Geotanka walking past a pile of rocks glinting in morning sunlight only I know it’s calc-silicate hornfels of Ordovician age dark hidden outcrop by the lake – Silurian limestone – lingering remnant of the Limestone Plains imprint…
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 wowed by the creativity and passion that we see. Last weekend, one of our team members went to Brisbane…
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 this salt-marsh shore of flooded gums, layers of eucalypt oil rinsed free releasing its high-pitched tang. Lower, sultry odours of soaked bark, full throat-catching cyanobacterial…