National Science Week
This year's festival runs 13 to 21 August, with thousands of events around Australia.
Entertainment, business, environment, food and wine, Indigenous media, the arts, health, technology, farming and agriculture, lifestyle, education, and disability media…
EVERY round can find a story in this year's National Science Week. Here are some of the early top picks:
- National: 1500+ rockets to be simultaneously launched around the country.
- Brisbane: Explaining cancer with art, pop culture, and augmented reality.
- Sydney: Why are drugs, food, gambling, shopping, gaming, sexting, and social media are so addictive? Ask American psychiatrist and best-selling author of Dopamine Nation Dr Anna Lembke.
- Wollongong: The future of the Antarctic envisaged by artists and scientists.
- Canberra: Sex on the Beach Science Show: all you need to know about marine animal reproduction.
- Darwin: Will we have enough prawns for Christmas? The science of 'plenty more fish in the sea'.
- Adelaide: Disposable health: from lab waste to Covid tests to medical masks – what's the environmental cost of healthcare?
- Goolwa (SA): Pipis: a successful Indigenous-owned fishery based on traditional knowledge.
- Hobart & live
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