Today is #InternationalVolunteersDay , a chance to recognize and celebrate the many volunteers who make the Adelaide Film Festival a success, and in many ways are the true stars of the event! #IVD2022 #TogetherActNow

#SCINEMA film “Black Hole Hunters” follows the quest to photograph a #blackhole for the first time.

Now, astrophysicists have discovered a new method for measuring the “shadows” of two merging supermassive black holes using gravitational lensing
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Recent musical research of note! Rats recognise altered melodies, the science of the strange singing saw, and acoustic perception in babies.
The Nature of Music, a 2021 #SCINEMA film, tunes into the mathematical foundations of music.
Read and watch here!
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He was the godfather of the vitamin movement 💊

Funk conceived the concept of ‘vital amines’; essential nutrients with a specific action, requiring only minute amount with the power to cure a specific disease. cosmosmagazine.com/health/nutriti…

Winner of #SCINEMA 2019's Best Documentary, Vitamania: The Sense and Nonsense of Vitamins expertly tackles the sense and nonsense of vitamins 💊
But who coined the term vitamin? It turns out we have Polish #biochemist Casimir Funk to thank for that!
#science #vitamins
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'Impact: Beyond the Night Sky' is a #SCINEMA film about impacts and collisions between bodies in our solar system.
Read on for how early asteroid bombardment may have shaped the young Earth’s development by delaying atmospheric oxygen growth! 🌏☄️
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Oxytocin makes lions more tolerant of other #lions , which could help those moved to fenced reserves due to human encroachment on their habitats.
#SCINEMA 2021's How Deadly: World explains the behaviour behind deadly human-wildlife conflicts.
ABC Science
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#Tuberculosis is the second-leading cause of death from infectious disease worldwide after #COVID19 , but you probably don't know much about it.
It also isn't just a human disease, Bovine TB was the subject of the 2021 SCINEMA film “Grey Area” 🐮
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What is #diabetes anyway? And what do #seasnails and #yogurt have to do with it?
'Bittersweet', a film selected for #SCINEMA 2018, follows the personal stories of young people living with diabetes and their daily struggle to manage this lifelong disease.
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Groundwater is an essential resource & sustains life in the planet’s most arid regions.
SCINEMA 2017's 'OWSIA (Darkened Water)' is a film about the Zarach qanat, an aqueduct in the Iranian city of Yazd that's supplied water to the city for 2,500 years.
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How did #Australia came to have 400,000 feral horses, and what’s being done about it?🐴
Feral horses can cause immense ecological damage to Australia's landscape and native wildlife, which was explored in the 2019 SCINEMA film 'Underfrog'.

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Is there #asymmetry in nature? It's actually more common than you'd think!
The subject of the 2019 #SCINEMA film, 'Jeremy the Lefty Snail and Other Asymmetrical Animals', asymmetry is in deadly chemicals, the heart in your chest, and flying bees! 🐌🐝❤️
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A device that can restore a sense is an impressive feat of bionics, but how do cochlear implants actually work? 👂
Cochlear implants were featured in the #SCINEMA 2021 documentary “Hear Me Out”.
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#cochlearimplants #science #documentary

Do you understand the #science behind #coralbleaching ?

The subject of the #SCINEMA 2016 film Coral Bleaching Explained: The Story of Frank the Coral by Dr. Tullio Rossi, let's delve back in and see what's in store for reefs in our future with #globalwarming .
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CEO Dr Michael Crawford says there is no silver bullet when it comes to climate change, but building soil carbon with soil fungi could be one of the strategies that will help. #soilcarbon #fungi #soilhealth
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The 2018 #SCINEMA Best Documentary, Grassroots, showed us that we could remove #CO2 from the atmosphere and sequester it away in agricultural soil using #fungi 🍄
4 years later, where is the technology today?
Loam Bio AU Soil CRC
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The 2013–16 outbreak in West Africa was the subject of the 2017 #SCINEMA film 'Think like a scientist: natural selection in an outbreak'.
New research shows that #Ebola virus can hide in the brain and re-emerge to cause fatal disease in primate models.
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#SCINEMA 2018 submission, The Amazing Life Cycle of the European Eel, explores the longest known migration of any eel species - spanning over 6,000 kilometres.

Learn about the Australasian eel’s own treacherous 2500 km trek with Cosmos.
#science #eels #documentary

#AIDC2022 is bringing you a host of in-person #social & #networking activities! 🎉Catch up with friends & colleagues at events like SBS Australia’s Opening Night Party, @ABCAustralia’s Forever Yours Happy Hour & much more! 🥂Learn more: bit.ly/3Jd0vB1

We've opened a one-off round to provide a limited number of WA documentary filmmakers and WA Indigenous documentary filmmakers with a Virtual All Access Pass to attend AIDC 2022 online.

⏰ Applications close Monday, 14 Feb 2022 at 5:00pm AWST
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