{"id":8806,"date":"2021-08-11T08:57:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T22:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=8806"},"modified":"2021-08-31T07:14:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T21:14:18","slug":"national-science-week-14-24-august-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/science\/national-science-week-14-24-august-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"National Science Week is over &#8211; wasn&#8217;t it great!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8807\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NSW.jpg\" alt=\"Credit: National Science Week\" width=\"1920\" height=\"651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NSW.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NSW-300x102.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NSW-1024x347.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NSW-768x260.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NSW-1536x521.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>National Science Week 2021<\/strong> ran from 14 to 24 August, with this year\u2019s festival incorporating thousands of events around Australia on science subjects as diverse as health, sport, technology, Indigenous health, farming, food, education, and of course climate and the planet\u2019s future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This article detailed the events prior to the week: hope you enjoyed it &#8211; see you next year!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, how to feed 10 billion people on a planet increasingly affected by climate change? National Science Week will allow the public to ask one of the hundreds of Australian scientists working on solutions. For instance:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Getting our protein from edible insects &#8211; Kim Johnson (Melbourne).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Improving food crops grown in hostile soils &#8211; Peter Ryan (Canberra).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Making self-fertilising legumes &#8211; Ulrike Mathesius (Canberra).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Making nitrogen nutrition in plants less expensive &#8211; Brent Kaiser (Brisbane).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plants for good guts and industrial hemp &#8211; Rachel Burton (Adelaide)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adapting rice, wheat and other crops to cope with more frequent flooding due to climate change &#8211; Timothy Colmer (Perth).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And in ocean health, during National Science Week researchers from around the country will explore critical aspects of the seas that girt our home from the Great Barrier Reef to the Great Australian Bight.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can see events here: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scienceweek.net.au\/find-events\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.scienceweek.net.au\/find-events<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to be involved, or create an event of your own, the National Science Week website tells you all you need to know.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Science Week 2021 ran from 14 to 24 August, with this year\u2019s festival incorporating thousands of events around Australia on science subjects as diverse as health, sport, technology, Indigenous health, farming, food,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":8807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,80],"tags":[249,933],"class_list":["post-8806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-whats-on","tag-events","tag-national-science-week"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8806"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8833,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806\/revisions\/8833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}