Tonight we're hearing from an interdisciplinary panel - from artists, to historians to zoologists to climatologists - asking them, "When Australians finally emerge from our homes following lockdown measures in response to COVID-19, what do we imagine our world will be like?"

Like most human enterprises, the science ecosystem has a waste issue - outdated equipment often ends up as e-waste or in landfill.

To put that into perspective: the average microscope might cost between three thousand to five thousand dollars - yet...

Since the earliest days of geological investigation, the primary method of determining the ages of Victoria’s foundational rocks has been the analysis of fossils. In much of Victoria, the most critical fossils are no more than tiny marks on the rocks—the remains of extinct animals...

Design Thinking is at the core of the BrainSTEM initiative, a mentorship and development program that teams middle secondary school students with mentors in universities and, increasingly, STEM-based industries to solve real world problems with the tools provided by studies in Science, Technology, Engineering and...

What if more community members could work alongside scientists to tackle the biggest problems we’re facing right now? BioQuisitive is a community lab based in Melbourne, a safe and accessible facility for anyone to get hands-on with the biological sciences to both learn and apply...

What if we could repair our soils and ecosystems by just letting the right fungi grow? Many of us know very little about what fungi are, much less what they do. Yet they are absolutely vital to the health and productivity of our land, particularly...

What if anyone, anywhere, could get involved in protecting and restoring our natural heritage using scientific methods? Public health genomics researcher Jack Nunn started the citizen science initiative Science for All in 2018, bringing the principles of sharing power and knowledge in health care research...

Last night we were joined by the finalists of the Victorian State Heat of FameLab International - a competition that gives early-career researchers the chance to talk about their science in plain English, but only in a few minutes!

Watch our passionate...

In this time of global pandemic, devastating bushfires and social disruption, we need more help than ever to put science to work. We’re campaigning to activate a range of high-value initiatives; the community-level programs and projects we deliver and auspice in life sciences, environment, community...