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School grant winners get creative with science
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School grant winners get creative with science

  • By National Office
  • 14 August, 2013

Beerwah State School, North Lakes College, Fraser Coast Anglican College and Urangan State High School are among 22 Queensland schools which have received National Science Week school grants in ...

Science Poem of the Day: 14 August
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Science Poem of the Day: 14 August

  • By National Office
  • 14 August, 2013

Today’s poem is from Law and Impulse: maths & chemistry poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Steve Evans Luminous Fruit Pigs bred with implanted jellyfish genes ...

Entertained and Enlightened by the Giants (of Medicine)
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Entertained and Enlightened by the Giants (of Medicine)

  • By carlysiebentritt
  • 13 August, 2013

Last Wednesday, 7 August, saw a great number of us battling the horrendous Melbourne rain and winds to reach the sold out Wheeler Centre. Drawing everyone in was the prospect of listening to ...

Street Science hits the road for National Science Week 2013
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Street Science hits the road for National Science Week 2013

  • By National Office
  • 13 August, 2013

Liddell Education has booked a SOLD OUT tour of South East Queensland to celebrate National Science Week 2013. ‘Science Steve’ and his team of educators have embarked on a run of live ...

Science Poem of the Day: 13 August
Science Week News

Science Poem of the Day: 13 August

  • By National Office
  • 13 August, 2013

Today’s poem is from Holding Patterns: physics & engineering poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Ron Pretty Christmas Concerto Light and clear day and so ...

Five positive things about Positive Psychology
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Five positive things about Positive Psychology

  • By National Office
  • 13 August, 2013

We are Dr Rachel Earl and Dr Anthony Venning, Positive Psychology researchers at the University of Adelaide. Positive Psychology is a branch of psychology that investigates the positive aspects ...

Tasmanian Seed Grant Winners
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Tasmanian Seed Grant Winners

  • By Tasmania
  • 12 August, 2013

Congratulations to the following successful National Science Week seed grant recipients  in Tasmania  - 2013  is yet another great year of science events and activities! Lynn Davies – Morris ...

Bring the kids, friends and family to Extraordinary Science @ ESP
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Bring the kids, friends and family to Extraordinary Science @ ESP

  • By National Office
  • 12 August, 2013

Weed controlling insects, maggot painting and an autonomous underwater vehicle will be on show as part of Extraordinary Science at the EcoSciences Precinct (ESP) during National Science Week, ...

Science Poem of the Day: 12 August
Science Week News

Science Poem of the Day: 12 August

  • By National Office
  • 12 August, 2013

Today’s poem is from Earthly Matters: biology & geology poems, published by The Poets Union for National Science Week 2010. Carol Jenkins Pollen Down-scale gene lifeboat, wind shifted silt, ...

Get involved with Young Scientists of Australia
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Get involved with Young Scientists of Australia

  • By National Office
  • 11 August, 2013

You’re young and you’re into science, you study it in school and spend your spare time googling it, but you want something more? The Young Scientists of Australia (YSA) Brisbane Chapter Inc. has ...