India, April 16 -- A group of brave scientists in Melbourne are turning to comedy as part of a new program to connect audiences to Australia's latest scientific endeavours and discoveries.

They're using humour to connect with audiences at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival about a range of fascinating and challenging topics including immunology, climate science, nanomedicine and cosmology.

The scientists have been training for the past two months as part of the Science Comedy Program by Future Science Talks. The program includes a series of workshops that help scientists to jazz up their presentations, with the goal for each talk to be 20 per cent humour and 80 per cent science.

Dr Kim Reid from Monash University's School of E...