If you have ever looked up from the depths of the ocean, you will understand how difficult it can be to identify objects above the surface.

14 April 2010
A cassowary tagged with a GPS at Etty Bay in north Queensland. Photo courtesy Hamish Campbell

Queenslanders are being encouraged to lend their iPhones to science, in a new initiative to uncover the behaviour of one of the states most elusive birds – the cassowary.

8 April 2010
UQ students have a read of rugby league legend Wally Lewis's new autobiography at St Lucia

UQ staff and students were granted an audience with rugby league royalty last week in the name of epilepsy awareness.

1 April 2010

One of Australia’s leading biologists, UQ’s Professor Scott O’Neill, has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science – one of the highest honours for individual contributions to science awarded in Australia.

30 March 2010

A series of workshops organised by a UQ researcher are an important step in addressing a worrying decline in the teaching and learning of mathematics.

23 March 2010

The largest physics meeting in the world is happening this week in Portland Oregon, with more than 10,000 physicists, innumerable cups of coffee, and more than 7500 papers being presented.

19 March 2010

UQ researchers have successfully demonstrated a futuristic semiconductor technology that will pave the way for the next generation of electrical and information technology systems.

9 March 2010

"Progressive walking" combined with glucosamine sulphate supplementation has been shown to improve the symptoms of osteoarthritis.

24 February 2010

Staff at UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) could be forgiven for thinking that Casey Linton was an accomplished honours student having seen her working attentively in the labs over summer and occasionally being mentioned in their monthly...

21 February 2010

Helping people from all walks of life feel happy and healthy is the focus of the UQ Psychology Clinic, which celebrates 25 years of operation in 2010.

12 February 2010

The School of Mathematics and Physics at UQ will soon be home to award-winning Danish astrophysicist, Dr Signe Riemer-Sorensen.

4 February 2010
Ms Patel at the University of Washington

Dhwani Patel had already come a long way when she arrived in Brisbane from Mumbai in early 2007.

20 January 2010

UQ and Alzheimer's Australia (Qld) will work together to reduce the impact of dementia after signing a new Memorandum of Understanding recently.

19 January 2010

Queensland will host some of the world’s elite scientists later this year at the 24th International Conference on Statistical Physics sponsored by The University of Queensland.

19 January 2010

There are more species of insects on the planet than any other group. While they are not everyone’s favorite topic, they fascinate UQ entomology lecturer Dr David Merritt, who leads Entomology Curriculum Australia (ECA), a project making an...

13 January 2010

Renowned Harvard physicist and lecturer Professor Eric Mazur will visit UQ this week to reveal his insights and methods into teaching large classes at University level.

12 January 2010

UQ physicists and Harvard chemists have teamed up to build a quantum computer that could have profound implications for wider science.

7 January 2010