The first quantum century fundamentally changed the way we understand and interact with our world. It gave us much of the technology underpinning modern life: lasers, LEDs, GPS, MRI, solar cells, electron microscopes, and myriad others. The revolutionary potential of the next quantum century promises applications necessary for solving our greatest global challenges. Join us…
Topic: Chemistry and Materials
Dripstone Middle School Science Fair – Unveiling the Mysteries of Earth and Beyond
In celebration of National Science Week 2025, Dripstone Middle School is delighted to host its annual science fair themed “Unveiling the Mystery of Earth and Beyond”. Embark into the journey of curiosity and critical exploration from the innermost processes of our living planet to the vast unknowns of the universe. Each student project is an…
Hunter Science Festival
The Hunter Innovation and Science Hub (HISH) is thrilled to announce the Hunter Science Festival will return in 2025. Set for Sunday 17 August at Newcastle Museum, with an expected audience of over 4,000, this vibrant, family-friendly event will celebrate science’s power to connect, engage, and spark curiosity across our diverse community. The festival will…
The Beaker Street Debate
Is the end of the world nigh, or at least the end of humanity? Have our multi-crises of climate change, over-consumption, over-reliance on vulnerable technologies, and [insert your favourite impending disaster here] finally brought us to the brink? Or is there still time to change course and rescue our modern civilisation from going the way…
Knots, Graphs, and Algebra, a Story of Surprises — Sydney Mathematical Research Institute Public Lecture
Knots are everywhere: in the strings of our DNA, in the structure of super-strong materials, and in mathematics, where knots lurk behind all three-dimensional shapes. Graphs model social networks, transit maps, neural nets, and are one of the most basic objects in modern combinatorics. But what does the mathematics of knots have to do with the mathematics of…
Science Week at Wavell State High School
UQ Science Ambassadors will be running whole school activities in line with this year’s National Science Week theme Decoding the Universe: Exploring the Unknown with Nature’s Hidden Language. Activities will include: guest speaker hands on and engaging activities including a VR experience, coding challenge, scavenger hunt, rubick’s cube competition, planet cake pops, galaxy jars and…
2025 Marie Curie Lectures: Quantum century – Unlocking the universe’s secrets and shaping our future with Dr Danielle Holmes
100 years ago, quantum physics was born to explain curious behaviour of tiny things. Since then, it has become our most powerful tool that humans possess, not just for increasing our understanding of the world, but for shaping its future. It has unlocked secrets of our universe, such as why stars shine and how migratory…
2025 Marie Curie Lectures: Quantum century – Unlocking the universe’s secrets and shaping our future with Dr Danielle Holmes
100 years ago, quantum physics was born to explain curious behaviour of tiny things. Since then, it has become our most powerful tool that humans possess, not just for increasing our understanding of the world, but for shaping its future. It has unlocked secrets of our universe, such as why stars shine and how migratory…
Fizz, Pop, Discover! at Arrabri
Get ready for a fun and exciting morning of science! Join us at Arrabri Community House for a hands-on Science Week event filled with fizzing, bubbling, popping, and discovering. This event is designed for young children and their families to explore science in a playful, creative way. There’ll be loads of fun activities to try!…
The Beaker Street Game Show
Ladies and gentlemen! Science lovers, fact-checkers, and Wikipedia editors! It’s the show where Australia’s science glitterati face off for epic showdowns of wit, wisdom, and utter irrelevance. Hosted by the one-and-only Myf Warhurst and with a raft of special guests to knock your nerdy socks off, the Beaker Street Game Show is back, baby! This…