Science Gallery Melbourne

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Sciences & Technology

The spambots are coming for your job, Aldous Huxley

Robotic ‘Spam’ tins recreating dystopian fiction ask us to consider the role of AI, art and animals in society – and how they intersect

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Arts & Culture

The sound of your internet history

Humans are increasingly connected through a technological frenzy of social media. Exhibitions at Science Gallery’s SWARM explore the legacy we leave behind online

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Arts & Culture

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Podcast

Getting involved

The pandemic has changed student life rapidly –impacting on mental wellbeing. But our sense of belonging and connection can help protect our mental health

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Arts & Culture

Running on rainbows

Exercise can help protect our mental health, but how can we tap into this mood medicine and stay on track? A human-sized, rainbow hamster wheel may provide some answers

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Arts & Culture

Your face is muted

In times of remote communication and notorious connection problems, how do we empathise with each other through the curtain of technology when non-verbal cues are missing?

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Arts & Culture

There is no ‘normal’

Please do not adjust your sets, normal service will not be resumed because dream, hallucination or reality are all a product of the same thing – your brain

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Arts & Culture

Being open to emotion in art

Art can provoke, plague and preoccupy. But what can our interactions with art teach us about fully experiencing emotions in our everyday lives?

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Arts & Culture

Mental Health ≠ Wellbeing

There’s a growing tendency to link mental health and wellbeing as an inseparable conceptual couple, but the two concepts have very different connotations

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Arts & Culture

Hey Siri, how’s my mental health?

Conversational systems may play a key role in future mental healthcare and have the potential to help cut down global e-waste – but there are caveats

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Arts & Culture

The microbiota and our mental health

Research is revealing the connection between our microbes and our mental health, suggesting that your ‘gut-feeling’ is not just metaphorical

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