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Forget medals, ancient Games athletes battled for olive oil

The Olympics were only one aspect of sport in ancient Greece - often overlooked is that these Games were part of a circuit of 4 international sporting festivals.

9 May 2025
A stone carving featuring a chariot being pulled by four horses.

Researchers to take healthy oats beyond breakfast

Expanding consumption of oats beyond the usual breakfast bowl of porridge is the aim of a $5.6 million project at the Food and Beverage Accelerator.

9 May 2025
a bowl of porridge sits next to a wooden spoon and a jar of uncooked oats
A man sitting on his couch wearing virtual reality goggles. He appears to be viewing a sports event from inside the stadium.

Internationally renowned sports marketing expert Rick Burton will make the case for Brisbane to be the technology Games, when he discusses how sport, business and government could revolutionise fan engagement over the next decade.

11 February 2025
A doctor looks over notes with a pen in hand

¹ú²ú̽»¨ researchers discovered that nearly 70 per cent of suspected frontotemporal dementia patients ultimately did not have the disease in a study aimed at identifying factors that contribute to misdiagnosis.

11 February 2025
A black and white photo of a syringe being injected into an egg from a uterus.

A ¹ú²ú̽»¨-led team has successfully produced the first kangaroo embryos through in vitro fertilisation (IVF), a crucial jump towards saving other marsupial species from extinction.

6 February 2025
First-year medical students with Professor Riitta Partanen.

The first cohort of “home grown’’ doctors, trained exclusively in the Central Queensland and Wide Bay regions, has begun first-year studies through The University of Queensland’s Rural Clinical School.

5 February 2025
A photograph of the night sky with the Milky Way galaxy stretching out.

A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter in the cosmos.

5 February 2025

A University of Queensland (¹ú²ú̽»¨) researcher Dr Debottam Sinha has received $450,000 from the Passe & Williams Foundation to improve health outcomes for patients with a rare form of cancer.

4 February 2025
A group of people standing in a laboratory wearing white lab coats.

A first-of-its-kind program will encourage university students from diverse disciplines to ‘test-drive’ a career in Australia’s agriculture industry.

29 January 2025
A northern short-tailed shrew in forest leaf litter

Researchers at ¹ú²ú̽»¨ have identified the first henipavirus in North America. 

29 January 2025
A woman in a grey sweater looking frustratingly at her computer

Managers are often at a loss on how to increase morale and reduce burnout for their employees, but a ¹ú²ú̽»¨ researcher has helped develop a framework that could be the perfect tool.

28 January 2025
University of Queensland's Great Court

Critical care researcher Professor John Fraser and former Alumni Friends president Dr Catherine Lawrence are among members of The University of Queensland community recognised in today’s Australia Day honours.

26 January 2025
People in New Farm Park in the late afternoon sun with the Brisbane urban skyline in the background.

¹ú²ú̽»¨ researchers are shining a light on the link between greenspace exposure and better health in the hope of influencing future urban greening policies.

23 January 2025