¹ú²ú̽»¨

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 ¹ú²ú̽»¨.

About 120 young science enthusiasts from high schools in south-east Queensland discovered the breadth and depth of science on offer at ¹ú²ú̽»¨ this week.

17 January 2014
A green turtle grazing on seagrass at Derawan Island in Indonesia (Photo by MJA Christianen).

Green turtle populations have expanded so much in Indonesia’s east coast islands’ marine protected areas (MPAs) that they are adopting new feeding habits, which are degrading the ecosystem and threatening their own conservation.

9 January 2014

Australia is home to many venomous creatures and boasts some of the world’s most deadly, but a particular group of venomous Aussies had been almost entirely ignored.

13 December 2013
 Jimmy Tran and Kianoosh Soltani-Naveh are fellow researchers taking part in ¹ú²ú̽»¨'s Summer Research program.

University of Queensland students are taking advantage of the summer break to focus on innovative research such as using saliva to beat heart disease and simulating hypersonic flights of 8600 km an hour with Scramjets.

29 November 2013

University of Queensland researchers hope to devise new measures and approaches to the impact of animal infections on humans, thanks to a US$100,000 grant through Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative created by the Bill and Melinda Gates...

26 November 2013
Joshua Soderholm: Chasing destructive storms.

Joshua Soderholm loves a good thunder storm. It means he can head into the field and collect data for a University of Queensland research project that could lead to more accurate warnings of South East Queensland’s unpredictable and destructive...

25 November 2013

Exciting new research collaborations in areas ranging from the arts to zoology are under way between The University of Queensland and The University of Western Australia.

22 November 2013
The newly discovered giant clam. Photo: E. A. Treml.

University of Queensland researchers have discovered a vivid new species of giant clam on reefs in the Solomon Islands and at Ningaloo in Western Australia.

21 November 2013

An international team engineers and biologists has developed a new technique that could lead to improved infection diagnosis for cystic fibrosis patients.

19 November 2013
Brothers Lexus and Jahk Hughes: ¹ú²ú̽»¨ Gatton Past Students Association Scholarship winners.

Science student Lexus Hughes has followed in his brother’s footsteps, being awarded the University of Queensland Gatton Past Student’s Association Scholarship.

13 November 2013
¹ú²ú̽»¨'s new $1.5 million student space.

University of Queensland School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management students have a new space to develop their skills using innovative, collaborative technology.

12 November 2013
¹ú²ú̽»¨'s Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation's Antony van der Ent says researchers have identified dozens of new plant species that contain high concentrations of nickel in Mount Kinabalu in Borneo.

Mount Kinabalu is well known to climbers and adventurers all over the world – now a University of Queensland researcher is putting the Borneo mountain region on the map for trees that contain some of the world's highest concentrations of nickel.

11 November 2013

A collaborative research project aimed at discovering a drug to treat a highly resistant form of breast cancer is one of two projects given the green light by the Queensland Emory Development (QED) Alliance.

7 November 2013

The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute has secured a $2 million grant from the Australian Cancer Research Foundation for a new cancer treatment centre in Brisbane.

7 November 2013
Dr Jian Yang is one of two recipients of the Sylvia and Charles Viertel Charitable Foundation’s Senior Medical Research Fellowship.

A University of Queensland researcher has been awarded $1.2 million to unlock the genetic underpinning of thousands of diseases, including schizophrenia, Motor Neuron Disease (MND) and cancer.

5 November 2013