A machine the size of a shoebox with wiring and software, sitting in a laboratory.

It might not look like much, but this tool could improve the next generation of lasers - and with it, industries from telecommunications to car manufacturing.

12 September 2022
A close-up photo of a hand holding granules of black compost

A new way of using compost could boost global crop production and deliver huge benefits to the planet, according to a study co-led by The University of Queensland.

6 September 2022
young rugby players in blue uniforms in a scrum

Researchers at The University of Queensland are seeking volunteer school rugby and basketball players for brain scans as they work on a new blood test to help diagnose concussion.

31 August 2022

A University of Queensland researcher supporting efforts to combat drug and alcohol use worldwide has been named the 2022 Queensland Young Tall Poppy of the Year.

30 August 2022
Illustration comparing the small size of the croc with human. Credit, Jorgo Ristevski

Approximately 13.5 million years ago, north-west Queensland was home to an unusual and particularly tiny species of crocodile and now scientists are unlocking its secrets.

30 August 2022
A hand holding a Net Zero graphic

If Australia is to achieve a net zero future, we need “out-of-the-box” thinking and a major economic overhaul, according to study involving The University of Queensland.

26 August 2022
Therapy dog named Elsa wearing purple bib lying on mat. Supplied

The mental health benefits of having therapy dogs at lectures and tutorials is being tested at the University of Queensland.

26 August 2022
K'gari funnel web spider

Using deadly spider venom to treat heart attacks is one of many new discoveries currently being developed at a national research centre headquartered at The University of Queensland.

25 August 2022
UQ Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Terry with UQ graduates.

The University of Queensland has made a bold pledge to tackle educational disadvantage in the state by 2032, striving to remove barriers to help talented students from rural, remote and low socio-economic backgrounds access university.

24 August 2022
A man with grey hair and wearing a white shirt sits clasping his hands

Australia’s first dedicated children’s immunotherapy centre will investigate treatments to increase the survival of kids with cancer and improve their ongoing quality of life.

24 August 2022
woman in blue shirt sits on a bed and looks out of a window

A University of Queensland study has found there are still barriers to terminating a pregnancy in Queensland, more than three years after the practice was decriminalised.

23 August 2022
A group of people in white coats look at machinery inside a high-tech laboratory

A new University of Queensland-led training centre is set to become a hub for world-leading research in ‘green’ plastic.

18 August 2022
A closeup photo of fingers holding a lit cigarette with smoke wafting in the background.

Rising cigarette prices have overtaken health concerns as the biggest motivator for people to cut down or stop smoking.

17 August 2022
a greater glider with big ears peers from a hollow in a tree

Scientists have put a dollar figure on the cost of recovery and restoration of native flora and fauna after the 2019-2020 summer bushfires.

16 August 2022
The sandstone buildings of UQ's Great Court with people wandering in the background.

The University of Queensland has been ranked in the top 50 in the Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU).

15 August 2022
An adult hand holds a bandaged child's hand in the foreground, the child lays in a hospital bed.

Stopping children undergoing chemotherapy from feeling pain and other debilitating side-effects is the focus of research underway at The University of Queensland.

12 August 2022
A diagram with a brown sauropod showing the how soft tissue allowed large dinosaurs to walk on land

Scientists have cracked an enduring mystery, discovering how sauropod dinosaurs – like Brontosaurus and Diplodocus – supported their gigantic bodies on land.

11 August 2022
Research assistants Mia Johnston, Alana Pettigrew, Rebecca Flanaghan and Michael Cox (L to R), with Assoc. Prof. Rhonda Faragher and Dr Jan Lloyd (behind). Supplied.

Young adults living with Down syndrome have high aspirations and a great zest for life according to an Australian first study by researchers from The University of Queensland.

10 August 2022
A group of teenage girls next to a smaller group of young girls. The teenagers are wearing pale blue short pleated skirts, red hats, red shirts with tassels, mid-length white socks, and white shoes. The younger children are wearing white dresses, hats, socks and shoes.

At a time when Aboriginal people’s lives were controlled – including what language they spoke, where they could go and who they could marry – Aunty Lesley Williams was marching outside these restrictions.

3 August 2022
A woman stands in a freshwater swamp holding a bundle of long straight reeds.

Weaving is part of Sonja Carmichael’s cultural inheritance, but despite always living on Country, she only arrived at it by chance.

2 August 2022