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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!

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 💥

Chinchilla, you were absolutely wild 🐍🚀That's a wrap on two incredible days of Wild Wonders in the Western Downs and the...
13/08/2026

Chinchilla, you were absolutely wild 🐍🚀That's a wrap on two incredible days of Wild Wonders in the Western Downs and the last stop on our WSFQ regional tour for 2026.

Be the first to know about our 2027 program: https://bit.ly/4zlftzM

08/08/2026

🦖 Plot twist: our T-Rex just came face-to-face with the Queensland Museum fossil stand …

Turns out even dinosaurs get a little starstruck meeting actual fossils (and our brilliant scientists didn’t seem to mind the celebrity visitor either 👀).

There’s still time to come see what’s got him so excited — the fossils are real, the science is hands-on, and the discoveries are still happening RIGHT NOW.

⏰ Last call! We’re open until 3pm today
📍 Chinchilla Cultural Centre and Chinchilla State School
🎟️ Free entry | All ages | No bookings required
🔗 bit.ly/WSFQ-Chinchilla-2026 or link in bio

08/08/2026

🦖 BREAKING: A T-Rex has been spotted stomping around Chinchilla Cultural Centre and Chinchilla State School, and it’s got one message for you: SCIENCE IS HAPPENING TODAY!

He may be 66 million years late, but this dino is not missing World Science Festival Queensland’s Chinchilla Community Day. Come see what all the roar is about!

Interactive experiments, wild discoveries, and free science fun for the whole family!

📅 TODAY | Saturday 8 August, 9:30am–3pm
📍 Chinchilla Cultural Centre and Chinchilla State School
🎟️ Free entry | All ages | No bookings required
🔗 bit.ly/WSFQ-Chinchilla-2026 or link in bio

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4101

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