Foodprint Melbourne: Building the Resilience of Melbourne’s Food System
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Electronic Skin: Sensing the World Around and Within Us
Researchers at RMIT University have developed a prototype to mimic real human skin to work as a viable alternative to invasive skin grafts and conventional prosthetics.
$6.36
Improving Drug Discovery: A Molecular Understanding of Cell Surface Receptors
Many hurdles remain to improving GPCR drug discovery, requiring an expanded, interdisciplinary approach to open the door to new therapies.
Bioremediation: Restoring Contaminated Ecosystems, Naturally
Nature-harnessing technologies are key to effectively and sustainably restoring contaminated ecosystems, using naturally occurring microorganisms to clean up contamination from oil and other organic pollutants in soils, groundwater and water bodies. The bioremediation process both destroys contaminants and restores an ecosystem’s microbiome. But every local ecosystem is unique when it comes to microbiological communities, so…
Queers in Science: on Neurodiversity
Join Queers in Science, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, and the Royal Society of Victoria for an online lecture on Neurodiversity. This lecture is presented as part of the Midsumma Festival and Inspiring Victoria. We recognise that the brain of every individual is unique, meaning not everyone learns or thinks the…
$5
Planetarium Nights
Scienceworks 2 Booker Street, Spotswood, VIC, AustraliaJoin Scienceworks’ popular Planetarium Nights programs to explore rare and rarely seen events such as a total solar eclipse, supernovae, and gravitational waves. Astronomers have a strange relationship with the idea of ‘rare’; something we seldom see on Earth may be commonplace at a universal scale. Museums Victoria astronomer Dr Tanya Hill has carefully curated a special…
$20 – $45
Planetarium Nights
Scienceworks 2 Booker Street, Spotswood, VIC, AustraliaJoin Scienceworks’ popular Planetarium Nights programs to explore rare and rarely seen events such as a total solar eclipse, supernovae, and gravitational waves. Astronomers have a strange relationship with the idea of ‘rare’; something we seldom see on Earth may be commonplace at a universal scale. Museums Victoria astronomer Dr Tanya Hill has carefully curated a special…
$20 – $45
Science on Show
Melbourne Museum 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton, VIC, AustraliaMuseums Victoria has more than 17 million collection objects, and we’re bringing out some of our rarest and most fascinating samples and specimens at Melbourne Museum for Science on Show. This event will feature curators and scientists delivering pop-up talks on their research, rare artefacts, and the stories behind them, and one of the rarest…
Free
Snap, CT Scan, Model, Predict!
Melbourne Museum 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton, VIC, AustraliaLearn what new technology can reveal about rare reptiles and frogs! For a deep dive into some fascinating science, come to our National Science Week edition of MV Lectures to hear about how cutting-edge technology is helping to detect and study rare species. Hear from the scientists on a bold new research project combining the…
$5 – $12
Planetarium Nights
Scienceworks 2 Booker Street, Spotswood, VIC, AustraliaJoin Scienceworks’ popular Planetarium Nights programs to explore rare and rarely seen events such as a total solar eclipse, supernovae, and gravitational waves. Astronomers have a strange relationship with the idea of ‘rare’; something we seldom see on Earth may be commonplace at a universal scale. Museums Victoria astronomer Dr Tanya Hill has carefully curated a special…
$20 – $45
Science on Show
Melbourne Museum 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton, VIC, AustraliaMuseums Victoria has more than 17 million collection objects, and we’re bringing out some of our rarest and most fascinating samples and specimens at Melbourne Museum for Science on Show. This event will feature curators and scientists delivering pop-up talks on their research, rare artefacts, and the stories behind them, and one of the rarest…
Free
RARE @ Parliament of Victoria
Champions of conservation and biodiversity will gather at Parliament House for this vital Science Week discussion about the extinction crisis facing thousands of Australia’s native species, and what we can do about it. Our State’s remarkable botanical and zoological collections are carefully managed by Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and Zoos Victoria, while Museums Victoria maintains…
Free