Giving doctors an AI-powered head start on skin cancer

Detection of melanoma and a range of other skin diseases will be faster and more accurate with a new artificial intelligence (AI) powered tool that analyses multiple imaging types simultaneously.

7 June 2025
Melanoma on severely sun-damaged skin

Remote health challenges in the spotlight at Indigenous-led event

Health challenges experienced by women living in isolated parts of Far North Queensland have been brought into focus in an inaugural Indigenous-led event.

6 June 2025
Organisers of the Western CapeHER Women's Health Forum
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A University of Queensland course is preparing business students for future technologies and jobs that haven’t been invented yet by encouraging them to turn theory into innovation action.

31 October 2022
A foggy graveyard under a full moon. Jack-o-lanterns and leafless trees are scattered around the graveyard.

Most of us only celebrate Halloween each October, but three University of Queensland experts research the strange and spooky all year round, from the history of horror stories to scary costumes.

28 October 2022
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The COVID pandemic has highlighted rapid shifts in where, when and how Australians work, and universities have an important role in ensuring graduates are ready for a future of continuing change.

27 October 2022
A young woman wearing a navy floral dress stands holding a railing with a flowering jacaranda tree in the background. She has blonde hair and is smiling.

Economist, mathematician, climate campaigner and athlete Josephine Auer has been named Queensland’s 2023 Rhodes Scholar.

26 October 2022
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A University of Queensland study has shed new light on a mysterious, unpredictable and potentially devastating kind of astrophysical event.

26 October 2022
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The use of cocaine and MDMA has fallen in Queensland since COVID-19 disruptions began in 2020, but the use of methylamphetamine or ‘ice’ has increased according to a report from Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC).

26 October 2022

​​​​​​​The University of Queensland has achieved 10 out of 11 subject areas in the world’s top 100 in the latest rankings.

26 October 2022

Research co-led by UQ has found sharing real-time air quality readings in developing countries can reduce air pollution and lead to lower mortality rates.

25 October 2022
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Methane emissions could be substantially cut through a $7.5-million project to develop slow-release biopolymer technology for cattle containing a gas-reducing bioactive.

25 October 2022
Federal Parliament building on ten dollar note background with the word budget written in cursive.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers will deliver his first budget on 25 October. UQ has a range of experts who can answer questions and provide context and budget analysis.

24 October 2022
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Researchers from The University of Queensland have identified two desirable traits in macadamia trees to make orchards more productive and profitable.

24 October 2022