Ten researchers from The University of Queensland have been awarded $3 million through the 2023 Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowships.

16 April 2024

The University of Queensland has been awarded more than $1.5 million as part of Australia’s Economic Accelerator Seed Grants to progress research and technologies to benefit the primary industries.

25 October 2023

Scientists have discovered that the humble blue-tongue lizard is largely resistant to the venom of the deadly red-bellied black snake, while giant carnivorous monitor lizards which feed on Australia’s most venomous snakes are not.

7 September 2021
Black-and-white photograph of woman smoking.

Encouraging young women to quit smoking has taken on added importance after University of Queensland research showed associations between smoking, early menopause and lung cancer.

29 July 2021
Menopause: symptoms include sweating and hot flushes. Stock image.

Early menstruation increases the likelihood of hot flushes and nights sweats decades later at menopause, according to a University of Queensland study.

22 July 2020

A Jurassic Park-inspired childhood dream of becoming a palaeontologist will become a reality today, for University of Queensland PhD candidate Kaylene Butler.

17 July 2018

Fifty years ago, in April 1962, The University of Queensland commissioned the first-ever digital computer in Queensland – a General Electric GE225.

20 April 2012

Whether it is viewing the size and shape of a shark's scales, the surface details of a dinosaur egg or air bubble distribution in frozen ice-cream, finding your way around a scanning electron microscope is now easier thanks to Australia's first...

21 November 2011

A UQ academic’s research into whether nature or nurture influences the development of gut flora has been published in Nature and may hold the key to understanding obesity.

20 July 2010