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Australian Indigenous Astronomy: 65,000 Years of Science

S3 Lecture Theatre 16 Rainforest Walk Monash University Clayton, VIC 3168

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people developed a number of practical ways to observe the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets to inform navigation, calendars, predict weather, and inform Law and social structure. This knowledge contains a significant scientific component, which is encoded in oral traditions and material culture. This talk will explore the many ways…

Our Mesozoic Menagerie: Australia’s Dinosaurs

Ballarat Tech School

The Ballarat STEM Network invites you to hear from Dr Stephen Poropat, Research Associate at The Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History Postdoctoral Researcher, Swinburne University of Technology on “Our Mesozoic Menagerie: Australia’s Dinosaurs”. Palaeontologist Dr Stephen Poropat has been digging up Australian dinosaur fossils since 2004, and will share his latest exciting…

Future Humans: Sex & Evolution

Eltham High School 30–60 Withers Way, Eltham, Victoria, Australia

Go on a journey through genomic and epigenetic research to learn how sex chromosomes work in all vertebrate animals, how they evolved, and about the decline of the human Y chromosome.

$6.86

Behind the scenes at the Australian Synchrotron

Royal Society of Victoria 8 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Join us on a tour of Australia's largest and most successful scientific user facility, the Australian Synchrotron at Clayton.

Dino Night at the Bendigo Discovery Centre

Discovery Science & Technology Centre 7 Railway Place, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

    THIS EVENT HAS NOW SOLD OUT! Thank you so much for supporting this event, we’re now at absolute capacity. Due to the overwhelming demand we are planning another similar event in the near future. Discovery loves dinosaurs! Come join us for a night of Dinosaur fun and facts with the Discovery Team and…

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Learn to Science

Inverloch Library 16 A'Beckett Street, Inverloch, VIC, Australia

Join a real-life scientist for a fun and interactive session of all things science. This session is suitable for ages 8-12.

Free

Virtual Reality with HTC Vive Headset

Warragul Library 75 Victoria Street, Warragul, VIC, Australia

Experience the latest in virtual reality technology with the HTC Vive headset by booking in for a 15-minute one-on-one VR session. Battle it out on your favourite Xbox and iPad games while you wait your turn to interact with the virtual world! This event is strictly ages 10+.

Free

Bionic vision: The brain-machine interface

Royal Society of Victoria 8 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Hear Professor Arthur Lowery talk about how engineers and clinicians are connecting specialised machines with our brains at the 2018 Joint Lecture with the Australian Academy of Technology & Engineering (Victorian Division).

Free – $25
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Forced landing on Mars

Ballarat Municipal Observatory and Museum 439 Cobden Street, Mount Pleasant, Victoria, Australia

Survival on Mars – what would your priorities be? Bring your entry along to the Ballarat Observatory from 17 July to 18 August to go into the draw to win a 25 cm Dobsonian telescope. View Mars in the telescopes and more.

$10 – $55

Australia’s Dinosaurs at Wheelers Hill Libary

Wheelers Hill Library 860 Ferntree Gully Road, Wheelers Hill, Victoria, Australia

Australian’s Mesozoic Menagerie: Dinosaurs from the Age of Reptiles - a talk by Swinburne University’s Dr Stephen Poropat. To date, only twenty Australian dinosaurs from the Mesozoic Era (251-66 million years ago) have been formally named on the basis of fossilised bones. This means that we have little idea of what these dinosaurs were like…

free

AstroLight Festival at Scienceworks

Scienceworks 2 Booker Street, Spotswood, VIC, Australia

Scienceworks comes alive after-hours for AstroLight Festival with special guests from the European Space Agency and Australia's space industry, fun science activities for all ages, and a whole field full of telescopes for stargazing!

$12 – $25

Campfires & Science at Plenty Gorge

Plenty Gorge Parklands 25 Linacre Drive, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia

Love camping? Love science? Get involved! Campfires and Science is a new and growing community of people who head outdoors, light a campfire, and share knowledge. We lead regular, free events in wild places to support scientific fieldwork and provide hands-on training in the research methods that help us to best protect the environment. Welcome to…

Free
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