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Science in the Pub

Down at the Particle Pub

21 October 2009

There's nothing quite like taking science to the people in the form of their local pub, particularly if it's part of the ongoing Quantum to Cosmos Festival, hosted by the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada.


Students from the Karalundi Aboriginal Education Community

Beam them up: 25,000 texts to aliens

29 August 2009

More than 25,000 text messages from Earth zipped past Mars yesterday afternoon on the way to potential alien life forms.


Greetings from Earth: pop over for a barbie

29 August 2009

THERE were pleas of desperation, hopes from the heart, and invitations to visit, if anyone is passing this way.


Earth to Gliese 581d, anyone there?

28 August 2009

The search for human life beyond mother earth is one of those endless pursuits that never ceases to fascinate and intrigue we earthlings. So far, however, there’s been a deathly silence from outerspace to all the signals sent so far, but that’s no deterrent to Australian website, Hello From Earth, which today sent off a new signal to a far off planet with text messages from 25,000 people from all over the world.


Earthly twitters sent into space

28 August 2009

A total of 25,880 messages from 199 countries have been sent into space today as part of a National Science Week initiative.


25,000 texts sent to distant planet

28 August 2009

More than 25,000 messages have been transmitted into outer space in a bid to reach a distant planet that may hold life.


LAMP coders celebrate deep space transmission

28 August 2009

A small group of Sydney-based open source developers will be catching up on some well-deserved rest this weekend after coding a web site in under 40 hours that took in 5.5 million hits in little over a week.


HELLO FROM EARTH

Australians 'twitter' to outer space

28 August 2009

A total of 25,880 messages were collected by the Hello From Earth project, representing people from across 199 countries, an enormous show of support from around the world for this National Science Week initiative.


Dr Alan Finkel

Connecting the dots to gain understanding

17 August 2009

Students will engage with science if they can relate it to their lives.


Send ET a text message from Earth

15 August 2009

Here's a truly long-distance message ... one aimed more than 20 light-years away.


ET phone home at Spring Festival, and stay for beer and hotpot

15 August 2009

Are we alone in the universe and, more importantly, will the aliens like the spicy Sichuan food?


Are You There Aliens? It's Me, Earth

14 August 2009

Get your own personalized message sent to the nearest Earth-like planet in the universe.


E.T. text home: Messages for Bleem on Gliese 581d

14 August 2009

Did you ever consider the possibility that, while we sit here on Earth wondering about whether or not there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, someone, or something, a few million light-years from here, is doing the same thing?


Dear alien, can I add you to Facebook?

13 August 2009

THE Federal Government will offer Australians the chance to send messages to distant intelligent beings from today.


Is there anybody out there? Australian minister leads nation in contacting planet Gliese 581d

12 August 2009

When ET phoned home in 1982, a whole generation dreamed of finding extra-terrestrial life. One inspired moviegoer was Australia’s eccentric science minister Kim Carr.