Bots Bacteria and Booze

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The Australian Academy of Science’s 2016 public event series will hold a lens up to the science of the everyday: the discoveries and inventions that keep our lives ticking over. Peer through the looking-glass to some of the science that will become part of the everyday for the next generation.

Tuesday 9.2 – Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte
Rise of the Machines

Tuesday 5.4 – Professor Tanya Monro
Unlocking the secrets within using light – from wine to embryos

Tuesday 7.6 – Professor Stephen Simpson
Putting the balance back in diet: the nutritional geometry of health and ageing

Tuesday 16.8 – Dr Ingrid Appelqvist
Making health food taste great

Tuesday 18.10 – Professor Veena Sahajwallja
From rubbish to raw materials: turning tyres into steel

Tuesday 6.12 – Professor Kiaran Kirk
Waging chemical warfare on microorganism: drugs and drug-resistance

When	Tuesday 9.2, Tuesday 5.4, Tuesday 7.6, Tuesday 16.8, Tuesday 18.10, Tuesday 6.12
Where	Shine Dome
More	Shine On

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“Stercus accidit.” — David Hume.