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…

Grow 4 Launch! Workshops – Grow, Test & Imagine the future of food in space!

High school student! You are invited to the University of Western Australia for an exhilarating 2-hour mission that could change our lives in the future. Experience the thrill of stepping into the research centre and exploring our missions before plunging into hands-on lab activities on August 21 and 22. Choose your adventure and change the…

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…

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…