The national festival that reaches more than 2 million people through thousands of events is back from 10 to 18 August.
Entertainment, business, environment, food and wine, Indigenous media, the arts, health, technology, farming and agriculture, lifestyle, education, LGBTQI+, and disability media…National Science Week offers stories for every round.
Here are a few early picks:
- Sydney: Can robots be conscious; will AI change our brains; and how do a mass of cells think, act and become self-aware? Step into a future where mind and matter converge with Paul Davies.
- Sydney: "It's a vagina, not a piña colada!" Meet the internet's OB/GYN Dr Jen Gunter
- Melbourne: DNA and reasonable doubt: the inside story of how scientific evidence overturned the murder conviction of Kathleen Folbigg, 20 years post-imprisonment.
- Brisbane: Should we 3D print polypills and other medicines for better health? Find out, then design your own with customisable colour, flavour, texture and even braille symbols.
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