Researchers at Queensland’s first quantum technology startup, based at UQ, are developing microscopic superconducting hardware critical to scaling up future quantum computer technology.
30 October 2023
Secret quantum alphabets could revolutionise how secure communication networks are built and utilised, according to a University of Queensland researcher.
4 September 2019
It has been said that the internet exists chiefly to show videos of cats interacting with boxes.
11 July 2019
More than half a million levels of a video game have provided random data for a global study testing the laws of quantum physics.
10 May 2018
A seven-year Australian government investment in quantum engineering has been launched at The University of Queensland.
16 November 2017
Brightly coloured sea slugs are slurping deadly chemicals and stockpiling the most toxic compounds for use on their enemies.
20 January 2016
Schrödinger’s cat highlights a long-standing dilemma in quantum mechanics: is the cat really alive and dead, or is the weirdness just in our head?
9 February 2015Something strange is happening within the world-famous pitch drop experiment with the latest drop forming much faster than the last couple of drops. There have been nine drops so far and all attention is now on trying to observe the tenth,...
10 November 2014On 24 April the ninth drop in the University of Queensland’s famous Pitch Drop Experiment separated during an operation to replace the beaker containing the previous eight drops.
24 April 2014
As Cyclone Ita hit northern Australia last weekend, a much slower collision occurred in the world’s longest-running lab project, The University of Queensland’s Pitch Drop Experiment.
17 April 2014
A team of physicists is challenging the very limits of Heisenberg’s famous uncertainty principle by measuring quantum particles with unprecedented accuracy.
5 February 2014
The Australian Academy of Science has lauded University of Queensland Emeritus Professor Curt Wentrup for his outstanding contributions to chemical research.
22 January 2014The University of Queensland is offering people around the world the chance to add their name to the world’s longest running laboratory experiment, the Pitch Drop.
18 October 2013
A vaccine against cervical cancer, a global parenting program, new forms of pain relief, better yielding crops and improved medical imaging are some of many high-impact outcomes of University of Queensland research.
19 September 2013
The University of Queensland’s place as a global research leader has been highlighted with today’s announcement that five UQ scientists are among 20 new Australian Academy of Science Fellows for 2013.
27 March 2013The University of Queensland’s place as a global research leader has been highlighted with today’s announcement that five UQ scientists are among 20 new Australian Academy of Science Fellows for 2013.
27 March 2013
An Australian-American team has shone light — literally — onto the question of whether quantum computers are actually more powerful than conventional counterparts.
21 December 2012A University of Queensland stem cell researcher will lead a discussion of Year 10 students from around Australia, covering genomics, bioinformatics and stem cell research on Thursday, August 16 for National Science Week.
8 August 2012
Experiments with entangled photons have led the way in the burgeoning fields of quantum information, communication and computation in the last decade.
11 January 2012A cancer-fighting antibody identified by a researcher working at The University of Queensland and Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) will today be used to treat the first patient, in a Phase 1 clinical trial.
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