As a leading expert in the field of recycling science Professor Veena Sahajwalla is producing a new generation of green materials, products, and resources made entirely, or primarily, from waste. Veena is renowned for her internationally commercialised EAF ‘green’ steelmaking process that utilising millions of waste tyres otherwise destined for landfill as a partial replacement…
Topic: Environment and Nature
Immersive Earth: Enter the Curnamona Cube
For National Science Week, a small team of AuScope creatives and University of Adelaide geoscientists invite you to peep deep into the Australian continent to help unravel an untold geological story. Join this imaginative arts-science team via a self-guided, immersive and multimedia-rich digital experience, and share any questions that pop up along the way, either…
VR Exploration Hits Sea Lake
During National Science Week, Sea Lake Neighbourhood House will have an unforgettable, high impact VR incursion day for local students, teachers, and interested community members. The ClassVR is a fun, hands-on and interactive platform that will provide Sea Lake residents with the opportunity to experience cutting-edge technology. Throughout the day, the instructors will demonstrate various…
No Longer Just Bones – Palaeontology in the 21st-century
Have you ever wondered what a palaeontologist does? Join Dr Vera Korasidis as she explains what really happens on a dig hunting for fossils, and what scientists do after they find them! Learn how ancient pollen preserved for millions of years can help reconstruct past climates and even help us understand what a daily menu…
The Australian Grasshopper That Has Given Up Sex
What can a unique ‘matchstick’ grasshopper that’s evolved into an all-female species teach us about evolution? The answer is simple – a lot! How is this unique species thriving and just as ecologically successful as its counterparts that breed by sex? And how does this significant research fundamentally challenge current evolutionary theory about the advantages…
Tree Species Selection for Future Climates – More difficult than you think
We currently use tree selection processes that are either based on experience of practitioners or on science approaches that are deeply flawed and not fit for purpose. But the new science approaches have found their way into councils and they are making tree selection decisions based on it. Thus, we are getting bad decisions based…
The Australian grasshopper that has given up sex
What can a unique ‘matchstick’ grasshopper that’s evolved into an all-female species teach us about evolution? The answer is simple – a lot! How is this unique species thriving and just as ecologically successful as its counterparts that breed by sex? And how does this significant research fundamentally challenge current evolutionary theory about the advantages…
Science Week at St Mary’s College
Starting Monday 15 August, St Mary’s College Primary will be celebrating National Science Week with daily hand-on experiments in class and during lunch. Classroom teachers and the Science Teacher Mr. Jake will work together to make science fun.
St Mary’s College Science Fair
Making glass out of natural materials, harnessing the power of the sun, or looking at the eye itself. Student and teams at the St Mary’s College Primary Campus will battle it out in the Assembly area on Thursday 18 August to see who can use science to explore the world of glass and explain what’s…
Discoveries That Changed Our World
Curiosity might have killed Schrödinger’s cat, but it’s also helped advance our society to what it is today. Everything that has made our modern world started from scientific curiosity, and the biggest discoveries and achievements often have subtle, hidden, and surprising histories. You are invited to the third Science at Melbourne lecture of 2022, presented…