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It’s been nearly two decades since the Hubble Space Telescope began giving us its awe inspiring view of the cosmos. The images it has sent back to Earth have revolutionised astrophysics and inspired people all over the globe, both in terms of scientific understanding and pure artistic beauty.

Meaningful encounters with artefacts in museums have always generated thinking about difference. In this context the term ‘difference’ ranges from an encounter with something unfamiliar and therefore strange to the philosophical notion of difference as singularity, that is, of difference (...)

The Science and Engineering Challenge is a competition for year 9 high school students which aims to present science and engineering in an inspirational manner, excite the imagination of prospective students and provoke their interest through a variety of well designed tasks.

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Presentation evening - Albany

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Learn how to teach with interactive white boards (IWB). Register on the Spice website.

Learn how to teach with interactive white boards (IWB). Register on the Spice website.

This talk will be about the tension the Museum of Human Disease faces between acts of law and being interesting. And will link this to the types of ways art fits into trying to resolve these tensions.

Derek Williamson is currently manger of the Museum of Human Disease at the University (...)

This lecture will discuss the challenges of population growth and meeting the growing needs for energy and water, while neither destroying the other ecosystems on which we depend, nor pushing the Earth’s climate yet further from the norm of the last ten thousand years, and moreover, to do this (...)

Lake Clifton is well known for the largest array of living Thrombolites (a type of Microbialites similar to Stromatolites) in the southern hemisphere. They were first described in 1980s when the lake ranged in salinity between 7 and 35 ppt. Within the last 25 years the salinity in the lake has (...)

Residential camp

The Coppelia Project is a programme of research, development, and artwork production aimed at the creation of a troupe of four robot ballerinas able to learn and perform dance movements and interact with an audience. The project is being undertaken by Geoffrey Drake-Brockman with assistance from (...)

Over the last 50 years ethical issues associated with medical research have focussed on how individuals are informed and give consent for participation in experimental studies. They have also focussed on how the participant's privacy is protected. Parellel efforts to address privacy and consent (...)

World records in athletic events can serve as physiological experiments in nature. By considering how the marathon record has changed over time it is possible to integrate ideas about oxygen consumption, running economy, and the "lactate threshold" and tell a coherent story about the (...)

In this presentation Antonio Traverso will discuss strategies of working through trauma deployed in political memory documentary cinema produced in Chile since 1990, the year that symbolises the end of General Pinochet’s dictatorship. Traverso will give this discussion a focus by means of an (...)

If you want to solve and win prizes, or watch others solve a Rubik's Cube and many other puzzles, simply join us at our free event. There will also be a display of many interesting mechanical puzzles.

Date: Dec 10-11, 2011 Time: 9:00am to 3:00pm

The Women in Science and Engineering Day (WISE) is a free event designed to inspire, inform and attract girls to consider careers in the fields of science, engineering, computing and mathematics.

WISE is a great opportunity for female students to immerse themselves in the world of (...)

The National Youth Science Forum is a two weeks in January program of events for students about to enter Year 12 and who are considering going on to a tertiary education in the sciences. The Forum is run in three sessions: two in Canberra and one in Perth.

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The Science Experience is a three-day program of events aimed at high school students about to enter Year 10 and year 11, and will be held at UWA from the 17th to the 19th of January 2012.

It aims to showcase the courses and facilities available to future students, and the multitude of (...)

The UWA Science Experience is a three-day program of events held at The University of Western Australia campus for students about to enter Year 10 and Year 11. Around 160 students from schools across the metropolitan region and country Western Australia will attend.

The program is (...)