UQ researchers have found an ancient sex switch can still trigger male development millions of years after it was ‘retired’ from this role

University of Queensland scientists have brought a retired sex gene in mammals back to life, proving it can still switch on male development in mice despite not having done so for millions of years.

16 March 2015
Research shows that Australia’s policy to turn-back boats does little to combat migrant smuggling.

Research by The University of Queensland’s Migrant Smuggling Working Group shows that Australia’s policy to turn-back boats does little to combat migrant smuggling, violates international obligations and jeopardises the fragile relationship with...

13 March 2015
Live music creates $1.2 billion of economic activity in Australia each year

Australia’s musicians are a happy bunch, despite many being poorly paid, having little job security, working long hours – and drinking heavily.

13 March 2015

University of Queensland research into establishing Australia’s first national standardised pollen monitoring program has been boosted by funding from the Allergy and Immunology Foundation of Australasia.

13 March 2015
Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research director Professor Jürgen Götz and Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk at UQ's Queensland Brain Institute.

Queensland scientists have found that non-invasive ultrasound technology can be used to treat Alzheimer’s disease and resto

12 March 2015
Associate Professor Simon Phipps

One of the world’s leading biopharmaceutical companies has awarded The University of Queensland a $160,000 research grant to help identify potential new pathways that contribute to the development of asthma, a disease that affects more than two...

11 March 2015
Richard Gill, photo from the cover of his memoir Give Me An Excess of It, published by Pan MacMillan Australia.

Three music education leaders will present research at a public lecture this month showing the advantages children can gain from music.

10 March 2015
Civil Engineering students Charlotte Caulfield is monitoring water quality.

University of Queensland School of Civil Engineering students are getting real-world experience, working to improve the water quality of UQ’s lakes.

10 March 2015
School students learning about science careers at an InspireU camp at UQ in 2014

Improving health outcomes for urban Indigenous people will be the focus of the UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, a new centre at The University of Queensland that was officially opened tonight.

9 March 2015
Associate Professor Trent Woodruff

A University of Queensland research team has been awarded a grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research to target brain inflammation in people with Parkinson’s disease.

6 March 2015

An all-girl team of high school students competing in the F1 in Schools Technology Challenge has consulted with University of Queensland neuroscientists ahead of the national final at the Australian Grand Prix next week.

6 March 2015

A root-rot fungus that costs the avocado industry more than $10 million a year is facing a dubious future thanks to a genome sequencing project at The University of Queensland.

5 March 2015

A study showing that tooth decay in Logan-Beaudesert children has dropped 19 per cent since the introduction of fluoridation has been backed by the Australian Dental Association of Queensland (ADAQ).

5 March 2015
Peter Hennessey ‘Parallel cartography (Glonass-K, RUS)’ 2014 aluminium composite panel 250 x 100 x 90 cm Collection of the artist. Reproduced courtesy of the artist, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS/Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Photo: Andrew Curtis

An exhibition surveying a decade of work by contemporary Australian artist Peter Hennessey will open at The University of Queensland Art Museum on 14 March.

5 March 2015
An Australian Tarantula. Credit - Bastian Rast.

University of Queensland researchers have found seven peptides (mini-proteins) in spider venom that block the molecular pathway responsible for sending pain signals from nerves to the brain.

4 March 2015