We were very lucky to meet Alan Alda when he came to Australia in March this year. Alan came to Australia for the inaugural World Science Festival in Brisbane and to announce a partnership with the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at ANU. Alan generously agreed to filming an interview with us about…
Category: Science Week News
Sydney Science Festival 2016
International Sydney Science Festival guest Amy Sheira Teitel is a US-based blogger and author who writes about science, space and the universe. With over 100 events, the second Sydney Science Festival program is now online! The eleven-day celebration to mark National Science Week 2016 runs from 11-21 August and includes talks, workshops, tours and events…
Dr Ellen Jorgensen visits Sydney
The founder and Executive Director of Genspace, Dr Ellen Jorgensen, will be visiting Australia as part of National Science Week 2016. Ellen is passionate about increasing science literacy in both student and adult populations, particularly in the areas of molecular and synthetic biology. Her work at Genspace, a community lab in Brooklyn, is dedicated to…
Teacher resource book now available
The Drones, Droids and Robots resource book by the Australian Science Teachers Association is now available as an interactive online eBook or via download (PDF, 10 MB). The book’s foreword is by engineer and entrepreneur Marita Cheng and it has hundreds of up to the minute (well, up to last month) examples of the latest research and practical uses…
Fossilised records
Sometimes it’s not only the fossils that tell the story, but the records of their collectors as well! Many collections housed at the Queensland Museum hold fascinating historical insights. Particularly when looking at sites that have been collected for long periods of time, by numerous collectors. One such site, on the Western Darling Downs, is…
Small grant recipients in WA
Congratulations to all of the successful applicants for small grants of up to $2000 (with a total of $19,000 being awarded) in Western Australia: Ballajura Public Library: Raspberry Pi in the Futures Lab Bush Heritage Australia: Shark Bay – science is all around us City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder Library: Make and Move – Robotics and Coding Collie Family Centre: Animal Rescue Kurongkurl Katitjin:…
School Grant Recipients 2016
Congratulations to the 248 schools that have been successful in sharing the grant pool of $90,000, with each receiving up to $500. Thank you to each and every one of the 586 schools who applied – this was a record number of applications! And thanks to the Australian Science Teachers Association and their state chapters for…
‘U’ is for Unknown
We humans think we know Lots! And this is where the museums and herbaria come in, where it is our job to discover, collect and preserve, and make the ‘unknown’ species ‘known’. Museum collections are the material evidence of these species discoveries. The specimens of any species can be checked years, even centuries later using…
Molecular Magic
When people ask me where I work, I am thrilled to reply, “The Queensland Museum.” I normally get an interested noise and the follow-up question, “What do you do there?” to which I respond, “I work on fish parasites.” If I am feeling particularly bold in the conversation, I might even add something like, “I…
Expression of interest – National Science Week at the Ekka
Liddell Education (Street Science), with the support of the Federal Government’s Inspiring Australia programme, will be running a National Science Week event from 5 – 14 August during the EKKA. We are calling for expressions of interest to be involved in this event by running an interactive, hands-on exhibit for one-day duration within the EKKA’s…