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Blade Runner, ballistics, birdsongs, and a First Nations food garden

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Dozens of Science Week stories around ACT Space, robotics, and engineering with LEGO: science while you shop in Canberra’s malls. First Nations food and medicine in the National Museum’s garden. Pew-pew! Fact or fiction in Hollywood ballistics. Biodiversity offsets to funding threatened species: the maths of environmental policies. Blade Runner: what do neuroscientists and bioethics … Continued

An Aussie astronaut, plants fighting climate change, scientists’ drag battle, and a giant Poo Palace

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Dozens of Science Week stories around New South Wales An Aussie astronaut, art therapy, deep sea science, space junk and Sky Country –all at the Sydney Science Festival. Newcastle’s giant inflatable Poo Palace recreates the journey of food, from lips to loo. What’s the role of plants, wetlands and phytoplankton in tackling climate change? What’s … Continued

Dr Karl, beer science, animal private parts, and Indigenous astronomy at a dark sky party

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Dozens of Science Week stories around Tasmania Dr Karl: what’s the science in future careers? Science, music, Indigenous astronomy at NOCTURNA Dark Sky Retreat. Cats, chemicals, brains, stress, and space junk: young scientists tour Tasmania. Multi-chambered vaginas, elongated clitorises, pseudo-penises and more: improv and 3D-printed animal vaginas reveal the world of female reproduction. Experimental beers … Continued

Spider crabs, science denial, and a play by ChatGPT

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Dozens of National Science Week stories around Victoria DARK MATTERS exhibition – can art make the invisible universe visible? Solving great spider crab mysteries, without getting wet, sandy or bitten. Is AI the next Shakespeare? See a play written by ChatGPT. Astrophysicists vs science fiction, and a sci-fi costume competition. Should we care about science … Continued

CINEFESTOZ: YOUR INVITATION TO INDULGE IN FILM, FOOD, ART + MUSIC IN THE MARGARET RIVER REGION THIS MONTH

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Australia’s largest destination film festival – CinefestOZ – will take place in the beautiful surrounds of Western Australia’s Margaret River region from 29 August – 3 September, with an epic program of more than 200 film screenings and events, hosted at the region’s best cinemas, wineries, restaurants, boutique breweries, small bars and galleries. Now in its … Continued

Fashion legend Maggie Tabberer Iconic cover star at 86!

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Style icon leads the Australian Women’s Weekly’s 90th birthday celebrations   Media Assets here She’s one of the most instantly-recognisable and respected fashion doyennes of all time. As gorgeous today as she was in her modelling heyday in the 1960s, Maggie Tabberer is leading The Australian Women’s Weekly magazine’s historic 90th birthday issue with a … Continued

New report for the first time quantifies the “bad romance” between arts and fossil fuels

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Under embargo until 12.05am AEST Thursday August 10th   West Australian artists and climate activists are calling for an end to the “bad romance” between arts organisations and gas companies, as a new report from Swinburne University of Technology researchers, launching on Thursday August 10, for the first time quantifies fossil fuel company partnerships with … Continued