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Prize-winning AuREUS material turns food waste into renewable energy
Carvey Ehren Maigue has won the James Dyson Sustainability Award 2020 for developing AuREUS, a crop-based material turning UV into energy.
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Rosetta comet probe completes "ingredients for life" bingo card
Scientists have discovered the final chemical building block of life on a comet, furthering the idea that our life all came from space.
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DeepMind AI claims massive breakthrough in protein folding
New advances in AI are smashing the competition and determining the structure of proteins which has huge implications for scientific research.
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Tasmania boldly claims state is 100% powered by renewable energy
Tasmania's recent wind farm projects tips it over into generating enough renewable energy to power the state.
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AI bias isn't going away anytime soon
Another day, another example of artificial intelligence judging people unfairly based on their appearance.
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'Study' reveals Mario Kart, FIFA and Dark Souls are the most stressful games
Which games will get your heart racing most? And which spike it hard? These games lead the stress surge charts with others close behind.
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Platypus cooler than ever as we discover they're also biofluorescent
Not only are they a bunch of weird little rat-ducks who lay eggs with a dash of venom, now they can glow too.
Culture
The Dish gets official Wiradjuri name
The Parkes radio telescope, along with two other CSIRO space instruments, have been given Wiradjuri names to better connect them to country.
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First Nations languages available to all through the online 50 Words Project
Begin learning your nearest First Nations language thanks to the online-based 50 Words Project, which went live in time for NAIDOC week.
Security
Australia implements postal X-ray to sniff out seeds no one ordered
Mysterious seeds are showing up in Australian mailboxes as part of a "brushing scam", so X-rays are being tested to sniff them out.
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Victoria set to build the new biggest battery in the Southern Hemisphere
Victoria blasts past South Australia with the Victorian Big Battery, projected to reduce energy prices while also reducing blackouts.
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Researchers have a plan to give the GPT-3 AI some "common sense"
Scientists are giving the best language AI the power of vision, allowing it to become even more indistinguishable from human speech.