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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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Reach for the ***STARS***

Briars Astronomy Centre and Observatory 450 Nepean Highway, Mount Martha, VIC, Australia

Looking for an out-of-this-world experience? Come and explore the mysteries of the night sky and Universe with a fun Astronomy evening with the Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society. Hear the REALLY BIG questions, ask your own, hold a meteorite, and spy on the night sky with us. Bring your five senses to an astronomy evening with…

$5 – $25

Adventures Under Southern Skies – an Art-Science Melding

Coolart Wetlands and Homestead Lord Somers Road, Somers, Victoria, Australia

An exhibition of regional astronomy and sky photography by the Mornington Peninsula Astronomical Society in proud collaboration with PrimeSCI!, the Mornington Peninsula Shire Council and Coolart Wetlands and Homestead. Being held at the historic Coolart Homestead, come and experience this artwork exhibition of stunning astronomy and space-related photographs taken by members of all ages from…

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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

Citizen Science Victoria – July 2018 Meeting of ACSA-Vic

Bureau of Meteorology 700 Collins Street, Docklands, VIC, Australia

The second meeting of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Citizen Science Association will be held on Thursday, 19th July at the Melbourne headquarters of the Bureau of Meteorology. Chapter business will include presentations from: David Gooding, coordinator of WOW, the Bureau's citizen science portal; Jack Nunn, convenor of the Campfires & Science program; and Libby…

Fact or Fiction 3 – Big Science (Australian Synchrotron)

Australian Synchrotron 800 Blackburn Road, Clayton, VIC, Australia

Are you interested in where Big Science is taking us? Well, COME ON DOWN, it’s time to play Fact or Fiction 3 – Big Science. The latest episode of the Fact or Fiction series takes a big look at big science – what are the world’s large-scale science projects, what might they deliver, and what…

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SCINEMA International Science Film Festival National Science Week Program

SCINEMA is a celebration of the power of the moving image to inspire the young, satisfy the curious, explain the baffling and ask the impossible. Register your venue to host your own free SCINEMA screening during National Science Week. SCINEMA is the largest science film festival in the southern hemisphere showcasing the best in science…

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Geoscience Australia – 80 Days of Earth Discovery

Online , Australia

Geoscience Australia is celebrating 80 Days of Earth Discovery from 1 August – 20 October 2018. Join us in exploring geoscience in all its diversity, the crucial role it plays solving the challenges of our nation and the people who make it all happen. Find out more about all the activities, including events we will be at,…

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Future Martians Podcast

“Why aren’t we reaching for the stars?” Mars One astronaut candidates Josh Richards and Dianne McGrath speak with fellow candidates from around the world about the Mars One project, their motivations for applying for this one-way mission to Mars, and what they are doing to become Future Martians. Future Martians is a 12-episode podcast series developed for National…

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The Laborastory

The Spotted Mallard 314 Sydney Road, Brunswick, VIC, Australia

The Laborastory is a science storytelling event in Melbourne that comes to tell the stories of science – the heroes, the egos, the breakthroughs and the mistakes of genius. From forgotten history and lonely laboratories, science and scientists quite literally take centre stage. On the first Wednesday of each month, The Laborastory brings together five…

$15 – $18
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Little Bang! Pre-School Science Club

Bargoonga Nganjin North Fitzroy Library 182/186 St Georges Road, Fitzroy North, VIC, Australia

This fantastic four week science program will give you and your child the chance to conduct experiments, have fun and learn about simple scientific inquiry methods. For pre-schoolers aged 3-5 and their carers’. Thursdays 2, 9, 16 & 23 August. Participants must be able to attend all four of the sessions. It is only necessary…

Free

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…

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