Pleasure and pain: what nude sunrise swims in winter tell us about social connection

Enduring discomfort together may bring people closer, especially when it’s mixed with a bit of joy, according to a study involving mass mid-winter river swims.

20 June 2025
A sunrise photo taken from the water with swimmers in silhouette against a cloudy orange sky.

New brain pathway discovered as key to memory formation

A new lipid-based pathway essential for memory formation has been discovered by UQ researchers – a breakthrough that could lead to treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder.

18 June 2025
Dendritic spines under magnification. Image, UQ.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk launching StemCARE at UQ today.

The University of Queensland today launched a new $7 million regenerative medicine research centre to improve older Australians’ quality of life and increase their participation and productivity.

17 October 2016

Emergency health facilities could be the key to survival for Ebola patients, an international study involving University of Queensland researchers has found.

17 October 2016
Dr Emma Beckman

Dr Emma Beckman was already on a high from working as a Paralympic Games athletics classifier, and then she got an extra boost of a rare Universitas 21 Teaching Excellence Award.

14 October 2016

In a world-first, researchers from The University of Queensland and University of Washington (UW) have produced tailor-made peptides – an advance expected to help improve drug design and environmentally-friendly pesticides.

14 October 2016
The UQ Business School MBA continues to lead the region

The University of Queensland Business School is celebrating a record five years as the leading MBA provider in Australia and the Asia-Pacific in The Economist ranking.

14 October 2016

Queensland genomics research has been buoyed with a State Government call for applications for project funding as part of its $25 million five-year commitment to the Queensland Genomics Health Alliance.

13 October 2016

The University of Queensland has risen two places in the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, placing 43rd in the world and third in Australia.

12 October 2016

University of Queensland college students have raised $55,000 to educate girls in Africa – and they aren’t stopping there.

12 October 2016

University of Queensland neuroscientists have found the major cause of a common developmental brain disorder.

12 October 2016
Ichiro Kagiyama, Self portrait in a Sydney Park (1915). Private collection.

The recent discovery of a Japanese photographer’s century-old personal photo album has highlighted gaps in Australia’s photographic history, according to art historian Professor Melissa Miles.

12 October 2016

Treatment with scanning ultrasound has already been proven to reverse Alzheimer’s disease in mice, and now it appears it could also slow down ageing in healthy brains, according to University of Queensland research.

12 October 2016