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Jan 8, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Kimberley Price |Tom Melville
Fans of the King of Rock and Roll have travelled from all over the country for the six-hour train pilgrimage from Sydney to Parkes, for the regional centre's annual Elvis festival.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Tom Melville
Marine scientists have teamed up with Indigenous rangers at Sydney's Botany Bay to gather new information about the local sea creatures. The knowledge of First Nations people has proven valuable to the researchers as they survey everything from dolphins and seals to the sea-grass that's crucial to the bay's health.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Tom Melville
Standing on the sandstone bluffs at the mouth of Sydney's Botany Bay, saltwater man and senior Gamay ranger Robert Cooley gazes out at the Pacific Ocean. He wonders if Aboriginal people 254 years ago watched from this spot as James Cook's Endeavour sailed past. "You'd have to think so," he says.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
en.mogaznews.com | Tom Melville
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Tom Melville
When you gaze up at the stars at night, the distant lights you see are nuclear fusion reactions taking place throughout the universe as atoms fuse together under immense heat and pressure deep in the hearts of stars. It's long been hoped that if we could recreate those fusion reactions here on earth, we could unlock an energy source that's clean, safe, and effectively unlimited.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Tom Melville
A team of physics and engineering students at Sydney Uni is trying to design and build a nuclear fusion reactor to unlock an energy source scientists have long believed would be clean, safe and effectively unlimited. To succeed, they need to replicate the nuclear fusion reactions that happen deep in the cores of suns throughout the universe.
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May 29, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Tom Melville
Researchers have reported a mass die off of sea urchins in parts of the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. The culprit is a tiny, single celled organism that's somehow managed to travel thousands of kilometres from the Caribbean Sea, where it caused similar mass die offs among sea urchins there. And scientists are worried about what could happen to Australia's reefs if the pathogen makes it here.
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May 23, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Tom Melville |Kathleen Ferguson
This week Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson was shocked to hear her own voice used in tech company OpenAI's ChatGPT software. However it wasn't actually her voice she was hearing; it just sounded like her, and OpenAI has since deactivated the sound-alike. The actor had been approached by OpenAI to provide her own voice but declined. It highlighted the growing issue of voice-cloning companies using AI technology to recreate the voices of humans.
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May 23, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Tom Melville |Kathleen Ferguson
We heard this week that Hollywood actress Scarlett Johannsen had retained lawyers to demand OpenAI remove an artificial intelligence voice from its chatbot that sounded too much like her. The tech company has since removed the voice from its platform. But the episide is highlighted the growing issue of voice cloning, where companies use new AI technology to recreate the voices of humans.
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May 5, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Tom Melville
They might be the largest animal to have ever lived but Blue Whales are remarkably tricky to find. That's why when they were putting together the most up to date snapshop of blue whale distribution, Scientists from the Australian Antarctic division had to listen, rather than look.
