You’ve probably heard of gravity and force, but have you wondered about super positioning, Heisenberg’s uncertainty or quantum probability? Join us on our quest to discover the quirky laws of Quantum Physics using BBC micro:bits. Delve in with hands-on activities to explore teleportation, uncertainty, randomness and more. By completing simple coding projects using your BBC micro:bit, you’ll…
Topic: Innovation and Technology
The Secret Life of Sheep: How technology and animal behaviour research are shaping agriculture
Join Dr Danica Parnell live from the University of Melbourne’s research and teaching farm (Dookie campus) for a fun experience to understand how animal behaviour data can be used in agriculture. Using non-invasive, remote sensing and tracking technology, we can study how animals explore and interact with their environment, and how they relate and respond…
Bird Nests Around the World: Natural wonders with climate clues
Despite their tiny brains, birds are amazing architects, and we can learn a lot from their nest designs – including domes, cups and pendants. How did nest building evolve? Why are nests so diverse? Will birds successfully adapt their nests as the climate warms? To find out, Dr Iliana Medina Guzman has analysed hundreds of…
Science Fair – Moranbah State High School
Welcome to our exciting Science Fair, where science jumps off the page and into your hands! This event is all about exploring, discovering, and having loads of fun with science. You’ll visit a range of interactive stations where you get to experiment, build, and test things for yourself. Take a closer look at tiny things…
How to think like a spy: The science of intelligence
We are living through an era of great uncertainty and geo-political upheaval with growing conflicts, pandemics and environmental crises looming. At the centre of this uncertainty, national intelligence analysts are monitoring the situation, to predict and answer questions about the capability of global powers, criminal organisations, deception and even the world of counterespionage and double-crossing….
Science at the Edge of Consciousness
What lies beyond the edges of our normal everyday waking consciousness? Join researchers from the Altered States Lab at Macquarie University (and our friends!) for a trip through ancient and modern techniques of consciousness alteration to discover what altered states can teach us about the inner workings of our brains and minds. We will explore…
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…
FOREVER Exhibition at MOD.
Beginnings, endings & everything in between. In this exhibition, experience time in new ways. Traverse past, present and future by navigating the blurred lines between these states of being. Look at the world, ourselves and our actions differently. Evoke memories through scent. Explore the changes that mark your ageing. And though it may be confronting,…
Coding Kubo Robots at the Newcastle Museum
Build your future at Newcastle Museum with our Science Week STEM Workshops: Coding Robots Workshop! During this workshop students will work in pairs to code their own robot. KUBO’s puzzle-based coding interface makes it fun and easy to program. Participants will complete a series of coding and robotic tasks that will teach them how to…
Designing the Built Environment at the Newcastle Museum
Step into the Arckit Design Studio! Using a design thinking process and the innovative Arckit architecture kit students will explore sustainability within the context of architecture. Working in small groups, participants will be recruited by a top Architecture firm to design, build and present their solution to a sustainability design challenge. The hands-on sessions help…