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The Alchemist: Turning Waste into Wealth

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

Professor Veena Sahajwalla is revolutionising recycling science. Rather than take up arms against a sea of big polluters, Professor Sahajwalla approaches the problem as a commercial opportunity with real market value to help drive behaviour change. Last year her SMaRT centre opened the world’s first e-waste micro-factory to process old computers, phones, televisions, and all the electronic junk that ends up in landfill. The waste is sorted and dismantled by robots, then mined for its precious elements. Circuit boards are stripped of metals such as gold, copper and tin, while glass and plastic are converted to industrial-grade ceramics and plastic filaments for use in 3D printing. Join us to explore how repurposing the fundamental molecules and elements within post-consumer waste products is reinventing the way we treat - and perceive - these largely untapped commodities.

The Alchemist: Turning waste into wealth

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

Discover how Professor Veena Sahajwalla is repurposing the fundamental molecules and elements within post-consumer waste products to revolutionise recycling science. Professor Veena Sahajwalla is revolutionising recycling science. She approaches our…

$10
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Particle/Wave

Scienceworks 2 Booker Street, Spotswood, VIC, Australia

The Universe has spoken and we have understood. David Blair, astrophysicist and LIGO and OzGrav collaboration member. Particle/Wave is an immersive multimedia exploration of gravitational waves at the point where poetry, video…

$30 – $35

Music of the Heavens – Stargazing Concert Under the Stars

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

To celebrate the Moon landing this unique evening for the public features a selection of space-themed music performed by the Southern Peninsula Concert Band, woven together with informative space talks…

$10

Monash Parkville Open Day

Monash University Parkville Campus 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC, Australia

Monash University’s Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is number three in the world for Pharmacy and Pharmacology. On Open day we open our doors to the public to find…

Free

SCINEMA International Science Film Festival @ Codergarten

Codergarten 45 Mundy Street, Bendigo, VIC, Australia

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. SCINEMA is the largest science…

$5

Fizzle and Pop Show by Twisted Science

Bunjil Place Library Bunjil Place, Patrick Northeast Drive, Narre Warren, VIC, Australia

The Fizzle and Pop Show is full of the magic of science with fun, creative demonstrations. With plenty of hands-on opportunities for willing participants and heaps to see and wonder…

Free

Sounds a lot like science with the Curiosity Show and VYSO

Iwaki Auditorium, ABC 120-130 Southbank Boulevard, Southbank, VIC, Australia

Professor Rob Morrison and Dr Deane Hutton from the Curiosity Show are back to explore the science of sound with Artistic Director Dr Ingrid Martin and the Victorian Youth Symphony…

$10 – $30

The Festival of Soil

ArtPlay Birrarung Marr, Russell Street Extension, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Join us for The Festival of Soil – a celebration of the hidden worlds beneath our feet, explored through art, science and storytelling. Did you know that there are more living…

Free

Spot the Bull s…cience

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

The Science Nation is celebrating National Science Week with Spot the Bull S…cience, a contest of intelligence, interrogation and deceit. Spot the Bull Science is a contest of intelligence, interrogation…

$10 – $15
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