Researchers at The University of Queensland believe it might not be possible to build enough low-carbon and renewable power stations to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius – even if there was a global consensus to do so.

17 December 2014
The perfect foam on a head of beer is worth a lot to the beer consumer. IstockPhoto

A team of UQ scientists has been tasked with prescribing the unique molecular signature of Queensland’s famous XXXX beer. The scientists are, for the first time, revealing the full profile of all the molecular components that give beer its flavour...

17 December 2014

Last week, The Australian reported that 49 artworks had been identified by the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) with gaps in their ownership history that could signal they were stolen.

1 December 2014
UQ's three award winners, from left, Hosam Zowawi, Claudia Vickers and Andrew Stephenson, with the Minister for Science, Ian Walker (second from left)

Three University of Queensland scientists were honoured at an awards ceremony in Brisbane tonight.

25 November 2014
UQ Provost and Vice-President Professor Max Lu and Prime Minister Tony Abbott at the Australia-China Council Achievement Awards last night

University of Queensland Provost and Vice-President Professor Max Lu was honoured last night at a dinner in Canberra attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

18 November 2014
The University of Queensland has a range of experts available for media comment on G20 issues.

The University of Queensland has a range of experts available to comment on issues being discussed by worldwide leaders at Brisbane’s upcoming G20 summit.

13 November 2014
Wild polio strains are running rampant in some poorer countries. Image: www.polioeradication.org

Vaccine technology being developed at The University of Queensland could hold the key to completely eradicating polio, by removing live virus from the vaccine production process.

13 November 2014
UQ was awarded a total of 77 health and medical research grants today

Australia’s first Centre of Research Excellence in Chronic Kidney Disease will be established at The University of Queensland with a $2.5 million grant announced today.

17 October 2014

University of Queensland researchers won two of five Scopus Young Researcher awards and placed in two other categories at a celebration of academic research excellence in Canberra yesterday (18 September).

19 September 2014
Left to right, from top: Dr Jack Clegg, Dr Liang Zhou, Professor Tapan Saha, Dr Stefanie Becker, 2nd row, from left: Dr Enzo Porrello, Dr Irina Vetter, Dr Qiao Liu, Dr Alessandro Fedrizzi, Associate Professor Jennifer Fleming, Dr Simon Perry.

Seven researchers and two research supervisors from across The University of Queensland were honoured at an excellence awards ceremony this evening.

16 September 2014
Working at the nanoscale, using materials with dimensions thousands of times smaller than the width of a human hair, allows researchers to accurately target treatments with minimal harm to surrounding cells

The quest to better understand human biology at a minuscule level has led to the creation of a $26 million international research centre in Melbourne.

28 August 2014
Dr Claudia Vickers from UQ's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology will talk about 'The science of beer' at the Queensland launch of National Science Week

The science behind beer and barbecues will be on show – and taste – when The University of Queensland launches National Science Week celebrations in Brisbane on Saturday 16 August.

11 August 2014

The University of Queensland has welcomed 16 new Future Fellows as part of a major Australian Research Council funding announcement today.

23 July 2014
Bachelor of Biotechnology student and science valedictorian Lawrence Wong graduates on Tuesday 22 July.

More than 40,000 people have now shared the TEDxUQ experience, thanks to the vision of graduating University of Queensland science student Lawrence Kurniawan Wong.

21 July 2014
Global leaders in the field of nanobio will gather at UQ in the coming week.

International leaders in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology will gather at the University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus for two of the world’s biggest nanobio conferences in the coming week.

4 July 2014
TEDxUQ 2014 – “Old Ideas, New World”.

Some of Queensland’s finest minds will converge on The University of Queensland on 29 March for TEDxUQ 2014 – themed “Old Ideas, New World”.

28 March 2014
Photo; Professor Max Lu ... "a deep knowledge of UQ"

Nanotechnology researcher and globally respected academic leader Professor Max Lu has been selected as The University of Queensland’s first Provost.

29 January 2014
Nicholas Plant from Mansfield State High School, Bailey Appleton from Everton Park State High School and Mikaela Hourigan - James Nash State High School (Gympie) explore the breadth and depth of science on offer at UQ.

About 120 young science enthusiasts from high schools in south-east Queensland discovered the breadth and depth of science on offer at UQ this week.

17 January 2014
Needle-free vaccine patch - nanopatch.

Scottish physician Alexander Wood first developed the syringe with a needle fine enough to pierce the skin in 1853.

16 January 2014