World Science Festival Brisbane

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Each year World Science Festival Brisbane paints the town red and takes science out of the laboratory and into the streets, parks, museums, galleries and performing arts venues of Brisbane and regional Queensland!

🔬 Home educators, be the first to book WSFB 2027! 🌟The WSFB Education Program is bringing hands-on workshops, interactiv...
16/09/2026

🔬 Home educators, be the first to book WSFB 2027! 🌟

The WSFB Education Program is bringing hands-on workshops, interactive challenges and curriculum-aligned STEM experiences to Brisbane from 17-19 March 2027.

You can book right now, and Early Bird pricing is only $10 (ends 1 December 2026).

Ready to book? Here's how:

1️⃣ Browse the 2027 education program and plan your day
2️⃣ Head to the school's booking page on QTIX
3️⃣ Fill out the bookings form and the team will confirm your place

Browse the program → https://bit.ly/WSFB-Edu-2027
Home educators guide → https://bit.ly/WSFB-Home-Educators-Guide

Can your students out-think a food crisis? 🌱As part of the WSFB 2027 Education Program, STEM Futures Forum: Agrifood Fut...
09/09/2026

Can your students out-think a food crisis? 🌱

As part of the WSFB 2027 Education Program, STEM Futures Forum: Agrifood Futures puts Years 9–10 students in the room with real researchers, real data, and real-world agrifood challenges. Think smarter farming, resilient food systems, and the tech reshaping how we grow.

Bookings now open: https://bit.ly/469CIzk

📅 Wednesday 17 March 2027
🎟️ Free event

STEM Futures Forum is presented in partnership with The University of Queensland.

📣 The 2027 World Science Festival Brisbane education program is live 🔬🚀Give your students a front-row seat to the scienc...
06/09/2026

📣 The 2027 World Science Festival Brisbane education program is live 🔬🚀

Give your students a front-row seat to the science shaping our future 💥 Ask scientists your burning questions, tackle real-world challenges in the STEM Futures Forum, witness explosive live science at Bubble, Boil and BANG, and this year, go head-to-head in the all-new STEM Career Showdown.

Book now, early bird pricing ends 1 December 2026 🎟️

📅 17 - 19 March 2027
🔗 https://bit.ly/WSFB-Edu-2027

03/09/2026

Move over, engineers. Jesse from Goodna State School has entered the chat. 🧲🚄

At our World Science Festival Queensland Ipswich Student Day, this train-obsessed superstar broke down just how maglev trains hover above the tracks using magnets, no wheels required.

27/08/2026

This isn't a baby crab... it's a parasite 🦀👀

What looks like a crab is actually home to a parasitic barnacle that has taken over its host, tricking the crab into grooming, protecting and caring for the parasite as though it were its own offspring.

Nick from Queensland Museum's parasitology collection breaks down one of nature's strangest survival tricks.

Did you know music contains triangles, rectangles and curves? Maths is everywhere in music: in its structure and pattern...
24/08/2026

Did you know music contains triangles, rectangles and curves? Maths is everywhere in music: in its structure and patterns, and, if you know where to look, music is in maths 🎶📐➗

Missed out on the melodic sounds of internationally acclaimed saxophonist Jonathan Radford and the Australian Youth Orchestra at WSFB 2026?

🎷 Watch 'Beautiful Equations' on demand now on QPACs Digital Stage: https://bit.ly/4gv4Npw

21/08/2026

Relive two huge days of Wild Wonders as our regional tour wrapped in Chinchilla 🚀🐍💥🔬

Our 2027 program is coming. Be the first to know: https://bit.ly/4zlftzM

🌌 Will we find life beyond Earth? Which planet reigns supreme? And what exactly does Matt Damon have to do with space ex...
18/08/2026

🌌 Will we find life beyond Earth? Which planet reigns supreme? And what exactly does Matt Damon have to do with space exploration?

Relive one of the biggest conversations from World Science Festival Brisbane 2026 as ABC Radio National's Big Ideas presents Blast Off! Exploring our Solar System and Beyond.

Tune in now and hear from some of the world's leading astrophysicists, astrobiologists and space explorers 🎧 https://bit.ly/4crrB8h

ABC Radio National ABC listen

17/08/2026

Science Week question nobody expected: why are we looking at owl vomit?!🦉

Queensland Museum’s Kristen Spring (Collection Manager, Geosciences) and Joanne Wilkinson (Senior Fossil Preparator, Geosciences) are sorting through cave deposit material from central Queensland, and it turns out owl vomit is basically a time capsule.

Everything an owl couldn’t digest gets dropped back at the cave floor, giving our scientists a concentrated sample of exactly what lived in the area, and what the climate was like at the time.

16/08/2026

To kick off National Science Week, we’re taking you back to the moment a watermelon met its match in Chinchilla last week, wrapped in elastic band after elastic band to see just how much it could take before it finally burst 🍉

Spoiler alert: it took 397 bands!

Every single band added tiny amounts of pressure, squeezing the watermelon’s structure tighter and tighter. It’s a lesson in stress, strain and energy transformation, showing how small forces can build up until they overcome even the toughest surface.

It’s the same principle behind earthquakes. Pressure builds slowly and quietly along a fault line for years, until it finally releases all at once.

Huge thanks to .Heinemann.official for keeping count and building the suspense, and to the students at Chinchilla State School who joined us to witness the big bang 💥

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