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Sci-fi grooves; zero-gravity moves; a 9-metre whale puppet; and Hollywood’s scientific siren Hedy Lamarr

National Science Week entertainment related stories up for grabs now around Australia

‘We’re All Aliens, Baby’: science songs and astrophysicists at a live Planetarium concert – Brisbane
Performance art in zero gravity; habitat beyond Earth; what is a space environmentalist? – Sydney
Hedy Lamarr’s Hollywood glamour and scientific genius on stage – Canberra & Victorian tour
The Love Lab: discover what really matters, from sex to wearing shoes indoors – Sydney
An Aussie astronaut, adult ADHD, de-GOOPing wellness, and 150 roving scientists – Hobart
9-metre whale puppet tells The Whale’s Tale – Darwin
Giant ancient kangaroos, Tassie tigers, and a singing palaeontologist – online & Naracoorte, SA
140,000 years in 30 minutes: A deep time view of Australia’s epic history – Perth
Matt the Feral Cat – make and meet this feline fiend in Albany, WA
Do loos flush in space? Out-of-this-world XR, including NASA’s $23m space dunny – Darwin

More on these below and visit ScienceWeek.net.au/events to find more stories in your area.

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What’s the most amazing thing you’ve seen in the night sky?

The International Space Station? Emu in the Sky? Saturn’s rings? Supernova 1987a?

Embrace your dark side and vote in our national poll.

Participate at: www.abc.net.au/nightsky from 5 August.

Media contacts: Shelley Thomas, shelley@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0416 377 444; or Tanya Ha, tanya@scienceinpublic.com.au or 0404 083 863.

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Do you love gazing at the Milky Way? Are you intrigued by the Emu in the Sky and its significance for Indigenous culture? Have you witnessed technicolour displays of Aurora australis?

This National Science Week, ABC Science wants people to vote in a national poll that asks: ‘What’s the most amazing thing you’ve seen in the night sky?’.

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Apocalypse survival; ‘bad’ fungi; counting koalas; space litter; the future of the Otways; and steel from old tyres

Thought-provoking National Science Week Environment stories up for grabs now around Australia

A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: from surviving to thriving amid turmoil – Sydney
When ‘bad’ fungi attacks: is there a doctor in the forest? – Julatten, QLD
Making steel from old tyres – Canberra
How do you count notoriously shy koalas at risk of extinction? – Online with QLD & NSW scientists
A space environmentalist’s POV on cleaning up the Universe – Parramatta, NSW
The secret life of orangutans – Newcastle
What should be the future of the Otway Ranges? – Colac, VIC
Where the krill are going, and the whales are following – online; Tasmanian talent
Tassie wildlife caught on camera: get hooked on Nature’s soap operas Launceston & Hobart, TAS

More on these below and visit ScienceWeek.net.au/events to find more stories in your area.

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Martians, dinosaurs headline National Science Week 2024

Media release from The Hon Ed Husic MP, Minister for Industry and Science

12 May 2024

Martians and dinosaurs headline National Science Week 2024, Australia’s biggest annual national celebration of science.

The celebration is now a step closer, with the Australian Government awarding $500,000 in grants to support 32 public science projects right across the country.

The National Science Week Grants provide funding of between $2,000 and $20,000 to support individuals and organisations to deliver community science events.

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Talk to your family on Sunday, World Hearing Day, about their hearing issues. Help is available.

Sunday is World Hearing Day. Many people wait too long to act with hearing issues that could be improved. MindEar’s audiologists and tinnitus researchers are available for media interviews Saturday and Sunday morning to encourage people to do something about their hearing issues. Details below

Changing mindsets: Let’s make ear and hearing care a reality for all!

World Hearing Day Changing Mindsets. Changing mindsets is crucial for improving access and reducing the cost of unaddressed hearing loss. Let's make ear and hearing care a reality for all! 03 March 2024 #WorldHearingDay

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Help is available for 1.5 million Australians with serious tinnitus

Let them know during International Tinnitus Awareness Week, from 5 to 11 February.

Millions of people have been told there is nothing they can do about their tinnitus.
That’s bad advice and for many it leads to more stress anxiety and depression.
Our researchers in Auckland, Sydney, France, Belgium, the UK and the USA are available for interview throughout Tinnitus Week.

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What killed the King of the Apes

Giganto were the biggest apes that have ever been – 3 metres tall and weighing in at 250 kg. Related to orang-utans, and distantly to humans, they died out over 200,000 years ago at a time when other great apes were thriving.

The first evidence of Gigantopithecus blacki came from teeth found in a Chinese medicine shop in Hong Kong in 1935. Now we have many teeth and four jawbones.

A global team of researchers report today in Nature that Giganto couldn’t adjust to a changing climate that led to forests in southern China becoming more seasonal.

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Train your brain to overcome tinnitus

An app can change the lives of those affected by tinnitus

Millions of people have been told to there is nothing they can do about their tinnitus.
That’s bad advice and for many it leads to more stress anxiety and depression.
With specialist psychological support you can train your brain to ignore tinnitus. But that’s expensive and not widely available.
Now, a research team led by the University of Auckland have developed an app that, in a trial published today in Frontiers in Audiology and Otology, reduced the impact of tinnitus in two-thirds of users in weeks.

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Record-breaking fast radio burst offers path to weigh the Universe

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An eight-billion-year-old burst of energy has been discovered, demonstrating that we can detect and measure matter between galaxies. The discovery opens a path to using fast radio bursts to explore the expansion of the Universe and ultimately even ‘weigh’ the Universe.

But it will require even more powerful telescopes.

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Finding the exact location of a power fault in minutes

New technology that could help restore power quickly even on high bushfire risk days

Some of Victoria’s worst bushfires have been started by power lines. So, power distribution companies have installed devices that limit the energy flowing to the fault to cut the fire risk. However, in networks equipped with these devices, communities might experience power outages for hours while network operators attempt to track down a fault along tens of kilometres of power line.

“In trials in China and Switzerland we demonstrated that our technology can find the fault location to within hundreds of metres in a few minutes, instead of hours or days,” says Monash University engineering researcher, Dr Reza Razzaghi.

“In Australia, that would allow power to be restored to the community quickly, which can be vitally important for air conditioning during extreme heat, for people who rely on life-supporting electric medical devices, and for the many other home and business users.”

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National Science Week entertainment related stories up for grabs now around Australia

Thought-provoking National Science Week Environment stories up for grabs now around Australia

An app can change the lives of those affected by tinnitus

An eight-billion-year-old burst of energy has been discovered, demonstrating that we can detect and measure matter between galaxies. The discovery opens a path to using fast radio bursts to explore the expansion of the Universe and ultimately even ‘weigh’ the Universe.

But it will require even more powerful telescopes.

New technology that could help restore power quickly even on high bushfire risk days

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