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OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos are both pouring billions into research to extend human lifespan. Australian-born scientist David Sinclair is a pioneer in this field and speaking at the World Science Festival in Brisbane.

Billionaires are racing to extend human life by decades. They are closer than you think

Australian-born Harvard geneticist David Sinclair says reversing the symptoms of ageing in animals and humans is now possible.

  • Nick Dent

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Drawing on Complexity: Experiment 9 is an immersive installation where artist Briony Barr invites people to take part in this drawing systemusing a seven-metre colourful tape across 3D surfaces.

Sticklers with sticky tape lay it on the line at World Science Festival

What happens when an artist and a physicist come together in Brisbane? “It’s like a big board game meets a science experiment.”

  • Jocelyn Garcia
Works by fashion designer Iris van Herpen such as the Hydrozoa dress from the Sensory Seas collection (2020) will feature in the exhibition at GOMA.

10 major cultural events to see in Brisbane in 2024

We’ve looked into the cultural crystal ball to find highlights of 2024.

  • Nick Dent
Physicist and science communicator Brian Greene says Einstein still has things to teach us.

Einstein’s mind will explain our times at Science Festival, says Brian Greene

US physicist Brian Greene says Einstein still has things to teach us, as he launches the World Science Festival Brisbane in a digital form for the third year in a row.

  • Stuart Layt
Professor Paul Young, science journalist Wendy Zukerman, Professor Raina MacIntyre and Dr Norman Swan speaking at the World Science Festival Brisbane panel.

Experts call for more transparency around pandemic decisions

Australia’s pandemic decision-making bodies should be more transparent, providing reasons for their rulings, according to a panel of experts.

  • Stuart Layt
World Festival Festival organiser Brian Greene and his wife and festival co-founder Tracy Day and their children on their last visit to Brisbane for the 2019 festival

Professor Brian Greene: Scientific literacy key to preventing pandemic repeat

World-renowned scientist Brian Greene said the pandemic response has been a “massive wake-up call” for scientists to ensure scientific literacy in the public.

  • Stuart Layt
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An urban planning expert says cities will need to plan for a digital future beyond the effects of the pandemic

Cities will get smarter but its citizens must too, expert warns

An urban planning expert says south-east Queensland is well poised for growth over the next few decades, but the digital future has to be planned for.

  • Stuart Layt
An explosion of liquid nitrogen at the World Science Festival Brisbane 2021 launch at Queensland Museum on Sunday.

World Science Festival back with a bang in Brisbane

After being cancelled last year just days after its launch, the festival has even greater relevance in 2021, with the coronavirus pandemic focusing attention on science like never before.

  • Toby Crockford
World renowned physicist and World Science Festival Founder Brian Greene says the reaction to coronavirus reminds him of the lack of response to climate change.

Response to coronavirus is one Brian Greene has seen before. He's not happy

The renowned physicist says he is frustrated by the early lack of action on coronavirus, which he says mirrors the lack of action on climate change

  • Stuart Layt
Researchers are trying to cool down turtle eggs in an effort to get more males, as higher temperatures produce more females.

Scientists try to turn down heat on turtle eggs to produce more males

With rising temperatures resulting in more female sea turtles, researchers are trying to rebalance the gender ratio by cooling the eggs down.

  • Indigo Kuss-Patterson

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