Science in Your Hands – The pharmacy lab experience

Join us at the University of Queensland for an exciting National Science Week event where you’ll step into the shoes of a real pharmacist! This fun, hands-on science day is perfect for curious minds of all ages. Try your hand at making tablets, creating juice-flavoured “medicine bubbles,” and testing how tablets float or sink in…

The Clitoral Chronicles

This National Science Week, we’re lifting the hood on the most neglected organ in biology: the clitoris! Join us for a live show that’s equal parts hilarious and enlightening. Through immersive performances, outrageous anatomical costumes, and wild but true tales from the animal kingdom, you’ll learn what you should have learned in sex-ed, including what…

Discovery After Dark

Discovery after dark calls all curious minds for an evening of insight and imagination. Designed for guests aged 18+, you will have the chance to experience: A live debate – Do we understand the world better through data or art? Hear from our researchers as they use their work, personal anecdotes and connection to art…

Future Science Talks: Comedy Edition

Future Science Talks is teaming up with Altona Meadows Library to present an evening of sharp minds and even sharper wit. We’ll be discussing thought-provoking science delivered with a comedic twist by leading researchers from across the country. Featuring: Christopher Freelance (Evolutionary Biologist) Luke Burgess (Climate Scientist) Claudia Cid Goncalvez (Mental Health Researcher) This event…

Max Planck QLD National Science Week

Ever wondered how we can grow bones in the lab? Or what’s really happening inside your body, between your cells? Come along to the Max Planck Queensland Centre Open Day and find out! We’re opening our doors to kids, students, families – everyone curious about science. Step inside a real research centre, meet scientists from…

The Science Social

Come together for Sydney’s annual science get-together at the Australian Museum to enjoy an evening of discovery, research highlights and engaging conversations, hosted by award-winning science writer and broadcaster Bernie Hobbs and in collaboration with Botanic Gardens of Sydney, UNE and UTS. This free after-hours event for the science community is a chance to form…

Scientist Portraits – Story and spectacle

Elizabeth Blackburn, Fiona Wood, and Graeme Clark. You may have heard of these Australian scientists before, but do you know how they’ve changed the world for the better? Learn how storytelling meets science.   Join legendary science journalist and broadcaster Robyn Williams AO in our 45-minute virtual webinar as he introduces scientists from the National…

Art of Discovery

Art of Discovery brings scientific research to life through striking visuals created by Garvan’s researchers. These images from our work in cancer, genomics and immunology reveal the patterns and structures that drive human health and disease. Join us this August 2025 for National Science Week at the Garvan Institute. Experience our illuminated art exhibition where…

Is Laughter the Best Medicine?

In times of growing social isolation and health challenges, could laughter offer unexpected benefits? Our scientists, industry experts and researchers join forces with comedy acts to unpack how humour might support well-being and strengthen connections. The experts: Associate Professor Alison Canty, neuroscientist, Wicking Dementia Research Education Centre, University of Tasmania Dr Daryl Peebles, writer, performer…

Deaf STEM Camp

Where Deaf Teens and Science Meet! Head to our ECU Joondalup campus for two days of science, technology, engineering, and maths, for Deaf and Hard of Hearing teenagers aged 14-18. Auslan interpreters will be provided for the event.  This is a non-residential day camp, held 9:30am to 4pm Saturday and Sunday. Thanks to grants from…