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Sci-fi art-science; animal vagina surprises; boomerang flights; and please DO touch the dinosaurs

Highlights from day 1 of National Science Week

Researchers, experts, and other interesting people available for interview around the country.

NSW: Saving turtles with a smartphone – Sydney Zoo

VIC: Art-science exhibition explores science fiction – Parkville

QLD: Please touch the dinosaurs: Queensland Museum exhibition supersizes accessibility for visually impaired kids

TAS: Pseudo penises, temporary passages, and other vaginal vignettes from the animal kingdom

ACT: Ghost Trees: big data, art and sound bringing back landscapes lost

ACT: Meet reptiles, daleks, dinosaurs, robots, and more while you’re shopping

NT: Art bringing Miocene megafauna back to life in Alice Springs

Read on for more on these, including direct event contact details.

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Hollywood glamour-meets-scientific genius; myth-busting menstruation and menopause; and women in space

Women in STEM in the spotlight for National Science Week: interesting people to interview and stories up for grabs now around Australia

Performance art in zero gravity; habitat beyond Earth; and the Celestial Emu – Sydney Science Festival goes off planet with women in STEM
“It’s a vagina, not a piña colada!”: Meet the internet’s OB/GYN Dr Jen Gunter – Sydney
Hedy Lamarr’s Hollywood glamour and scientific genius on stage – Canberra & Victorian tour
Meet the woman who invented green steel from old tyres – Canberra
Art-science exhibition explores science fiction – Melbourne
Today’s women in science on their historical foremothers – State Library of Victoria
The Love Lab: discover what really matters, from sex to wearing shoes indoors – Sydney
Where the krill are going, and the whales are following – online via Tasmania
How science got a woman released from prison – Melbourne

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

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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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Contenders for the most amazing thing you’ve seen in the night sky
Footage available on request.

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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Highlights from day 1 of National Science Week

Researchers, experts, and other interesting people available for interview around the country.

Also today:

Women in STEM in the spotlight for National Science Week: interesting people to interview and stories up for grabs now around Australia

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

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