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Serene Universe
FREE film screening- no booking required Rated G SPECIAL ADDITION: Thursday’s screening (20 Feb) will be introduced by Maarten Roos, Serene Universe Film maker and Planetary Scientist. Do you look up...
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Virtual Solitaire
Tickets $25 Adult, $20 Conc/RiAus Member, $18 Fringe Benefits Rated PG 15+ Please note, the 15 March session of Virtual Solitaire has been cancelled Seattle-based Dawson Nichols, internationally...
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Science Behind the Headlines: Debunking the Detox
Miracle pills, celebrity secrets, detox, raw foods, juice, soup, fasting… Diet and health advice infiltrate our everyday lives, and we often get caught up in the latest miracle fads. We’ll look at...
View ArticleBook Club – Stumbling on Happiness
Winning lotto. Summer. Green at every traffic light. What makes you happy? The drive for happiness is one of the most instinctive and fundamental human impulses but do we actually have the first idea...
View ArticleBook Club – Toxin Toxout
Synthetic chemicals surround us – in our toothpaste, on our frying pans, in our cars, in house dust. Authors Bruce Lourie and Rick Smith show that there’s mounting scientific evidence linking some of...
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Spark of Genius
This event is free upon entry to Carnevale At the close of the 1700s electricity was still a mysterious substance. In Italy, one of the scientific hotbeds of the world, two scientists entered an...
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PDplus online PL session for teachers
PDplus online session for teachers: The origin of faeces, what excrement tells us about evolution, ecology and a sustainable society Is poo a problem? Or are we just looking at it the wrong way? With...
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Bragg Walking Tour
The lives of Sir William Henry Bragg and his son, Sir William Lawrence Bragg, will be revealed through a guided walking tour. Hear what life would have been like when these famous men lived and worked...
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Todd’s Adelaide
Sir Charles Todd’s impact on colonial science and technology was remarkable. Using an app on your smart mobile device, discover how his work relates to our lives today through an interactive...
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Get Radical!
What do fading paint, heart disease, food spoilage, cancer have in common? Free radicals- very reactive molecules that despite their role in heart attack, stroke and ageing are also essential for our...
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Insight Radical – A Guided Exhibition Tour
This exclusive opportunity to be guided around Insight Radical pieces by Renee Beale, manager of the public education program for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Free Radical Chemistry &...
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Transparent Labs – Open House Adelaide
For opening and tour times see http://openhouseadelaide.com.au/ Over the course of a weekend buildings around Adelaide will be opening their doors to give you a glimpse behind the scenes. This is a...
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Would You Drink Recycled Water?
Just a quick flush, and your waste disappears from sight and from mind. So how would feel if that same water re-entered your home, but through your drinking tap? 3 out of 4 Australians say that they...
View ArticleBook Club – My Brief History
Bring out your inner bookworm and chat about your favourite science book with other bibliophiles. This month’s book selection is iconic physicist Stephen Hawking’s autobiography My Brief History. Can’t...
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PDplus: Organ and tissue donation, the gift of life
Organ and tissue donation saves lives. One donor can transform the lives of up to 10 people and significantly improve the lives of many more, and in Australia there are around 1500 people on organ...
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Bodies on the Line
Concussions, spinal injuries and internal bleeding. During football season, serious sports injuries make front page news on a regular basis as players continually put their bodies on the line. Whether...
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Be recognised as the expert: Communicating science to the public and media
The ECR Network program specific for Adelaide professional research scientists returns in 2014. This year we’re opening the eligibility to include not only early career researchers, but also late-stage...
View ArticleThe birds and the bees are just the beginning…
Biologist and TV host Dr Carin Bondar (Canada) explored evolutionary science and the often weird world of animal reproduction with a huge online audience at RiAus. Along with talking about the science...
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PDplus: Crystallography
2014 is the UNESCO International Year of Crystallography, celebrating 100 years since X-ray diffraction allowed scientists to study the detailed structure of crystalline materials. Now crystallography...
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2014 Science Inspiration: Professor Tanya Monro
On Wednesday 17 September 2014 Professor Tanya Monro delivered the 2014 Science Inspiration Tanya Monro is a ‘bright spark’ in Australian science, driving exciting research into photonics – the science...
View ArticleRiAus Members’ Event: In Shackleton’s Footsteps
RiAus Director, Dr Paul Willis, recently travelled to Antarctica with Aurora Expeditions to recount the historic journey of Sir Ernest Shackleton. In this fascinating talk, Paul shares his journey...
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ECR Network: ECR Grant Writing Workshop
The ECR Network program specific for Adelaide professional research scientists returns in 2014. This year we’re opening the eligibility to include not only early career researchers, but also late-stage...
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ECR Network: Understanding the political framework for research
The ECR Network program specific for Adelaide professional research scientists returns in 2014. This year we’re opening the eligibility to include not only early career researchers, but also late-stage...
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ECR Network: Towards research independence
The ECR Network program specific for Adelaide professional research scientists returns in 2014. This year we’re opening the eligibility to include not only early career researchers, but also...
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PDplus: Photonics
Photonics, the science of light, generates, detects and controls photons, harnessing the power of light energy. We can thank photonics for our flat-panel computers, HDTVs, smart phone displays, fast...
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Mercury Rising: Extreme Bushfires
Bushfires in Australia are a fact of life. In this unique event we examined bushfires and discovered some of the extreme factors that go into making them so dangerous. From the weather conditions and...
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In Class with Brian Cox
Attention students and teachers! Target audience: high school students, year 8 upwards. NOTE: Times listed are in Adelaide local time, ACDT. Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to meet a bona fide...
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PDplus: Sustainable vehicles
This online PD session is for teachers. Teachers can nominate to receive a certificate of attendance that contributes towards their professional learning requirements. In a world tackling CO2...
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The GM debate should only be about the science
The Waite Research Institute’s Debate@The Waite series continues on Tuesday 21 October with the tenth event since 2011. The topic on this occasion will be ‘The GM debate should only be about the...
View ArticleThis Can’t End Well
Tickets $24 Adult, $18 Conc/RiAus Member, $15 Group 6+ Rated M Every part of who Jonathan used to be is dying. Rosalind is trying to juggle being a mother, a wife and Cambridge Professor in the middle...
View ArticleThe Science Exchange Building Tour
Come to the Science Exchange, the home of RiAus for a free guided tour as part of The History Festival! Before becoming the home of RiAus, the Science Exchange had an exciting history as the Adelaide...
View ArticleECR Network: Beyond Competitive Grants
ECR Network events are exclusively for early career researchers, late-stage PhD students and mid-career researchers. Please register using your institution email address. Register now. The amount of...
View ArticleECR Network: Taking Science Communication to the Next Level
ECR Network events are exclusively for early career researchers, late-stage PhD students and mid-career researchers. Please register using your institution email address. Register now. Supercharge your...
View ArticleDinosaurs on the Big Screen
Think you know what a dinosaur looks like? Well, you might have to think again! Join RiAus for our first movie fundraiser to see the brand new blockbuster Jurassic World, along with a special exclusive...
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ECR Network: Expanding Your Network and Collaborations
BOOK HERE Wednesday 15 July, 5:30pm – 7:30pm The Science Exchange, 55 Exchange Place, Adelaide Attendance is limited to early career researchers, late-stage PhD students and mid-career researchers,...
View ArticleUncovering new materials under extreme pressures: Diamonds are a scientist’s...
Diamonds are formed deep in the earth where high pressures and high temperatures slowly work to turn carbon-containing minerals into the hardest material known to science. In this talk, Associate...
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The Science of Doctor Who
The Science of Doctor Who returns in 2015! After the huge 2014 national tour, The Science of Doctor Who returns exclusively at the official BBC Doctor Who Festival. Join Rob Lloyd and Martin White on...
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ECR Network: Collaborating with Industry
BOOK HERE Attendance is limited to early career researchers, late-stage PhD students and mid-career researchers, and other associated research staff. Please register with your institutional email...
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ECR Network: Non-Academic Careers
BOOK HERE Attendance is limited to early career researchers, late-stage PhD students and mid-career researchers, and other associated research staff. Please register with your institutional email...
View ArticleBragg Walking Tour
The lives of Sir William Henry Bragg and his son, Sir William Lawrence Bragg, will be revealed through a guided walking tour. Hear what life would have been like when these famous men lived and...
View ArticleScience Says!
You’re invited to an event of science and comedy in the style of the great panel shows (think Good News Week and Spicks and Specks), as we take a lighter look at the top science stories of 2015 – and...
View ArticleScience Says!
You’re invited to an event of science and comedy in the style of the great panel shows (think Good News Week and Spicks and Specks), as we take a lighter look at the top science stories of 2015 – and...
View ArticleScience Says!
You’re invited to an event of science and comedy in the style of the great panel shows (think Good News Week and Spicks and Specks), as we take a lighter look at the top science stories of 2015 – and...
View ArticleSusan Greenfield Live – A Day in the Life of the Brain
BOOK HERE Consciousness is the ultimate miracle – and enigma. However most people take this subjective inner state for granted without ever reflecting on what could possibly be happening in their brain...
View ArticleThe Hungry Tide – register for the Livestream
The evening before the COP21 Climate Change negotiations open in Paris, join us for the online premiere of Australian documentary, The Hungry Tide – a personal story about a pacific nation on the...
View ArticleLive with Charles Champion, President of Airbus Operations
Somewhere in the world, an Airbus A380 takes-off or lands every three minutes. Today we meet the man responsible for overseeing the development of these incredible feats of engineering, Charles...
View ArticleAdelaide Fringe 2016: Cosmic Nomad
Comedian, physicist, and general troublemaker Josh Richards knows his days are numbered: short-listed for a one-way mission to Mars in 2026, he’s probably going to die there. So if you had 10 years...
View ArticleAdelaide Fringe 2016: Late Night Letters and Numbers
Do you miss Letters and Numbers on SBS? We do too, but there’s hope! Late Night Letter and Numbers! It’s everything Letters and Numbers was, but more with interaction and drinking! Guided by your...
View ArticleCollision
RiAus hosts Collision as part of the Visual Arts program of the 2016 Adelaide Fringe Festival (link). The hugest, most ginormous experiment in the world… is at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN....
View ArticleIn Class With David Suzuki
DETAILS AND BOOKINGS AT http://riaus.tv/content/david-suzuki-live-school Canadian environmentalist, scientist, author and broadcaster David Suzuki stops in during his appearances at the WOMADelaide...
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