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a black and white image of marks on a rock

A ·èÂíÐãÊÓƵresearcher has confirmed a boulder at a regional school contains one of the highest concentrations of dinosaur footprints per square metre ever documented in Australia.

12 March 2025
A woman wearing a lab coat doing an experiment in a science lab.

·èÂíÐãÊÓƵstudies have used a natural tree sap gum and light to extend the shelf life of fresh fruit and vegetables to combat food waste.

26 February 2025
a fine yellow filament is bent between three black points

Australian scientists have gained new insights into the fundamental behaviour of flexible materials, allowing for the design of new building materials and technology.

24 February 2025
Two scientists in a lab wearing white lab coats

Inaccessible supplies of an element crucial to powering a clean-energy future are set to be unlocked with technology developed by UQ.

17 February 2025
Rainforest at Cania Gorge in Queensland's North Burnett region.

A ·èÂíÐãÊÓƵteam has completed one of the most comprehensive surveys of Australia’s subtropical rainforests to document how climate dictates what species thrive in different locations.

17 February 2025
a crocodile moves away on a sandy bank

Crocodiles in northern Australia are heating up as the climate warms, with higher body temperatures changing their behaviour.

13 February 2025
An erupting volcano at night.

Research on Australian volcanoes shows how tiny crystals formed inside volcanoes offer clues about the formation of rare earth deposits and how we can find more of them.

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

A UQ-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
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 northern short-tailed shrew in forest leaf litter

Researchers at ·èÂíÐãÊÓƵhave identified the first henipavirus in North America. 

29 January 2025
a man with a beard sits behind a tray of small plants in a glasshouse

Years of scouring the bush and breeding work at ·èÂíÐãÊÓƵhave resulted in new varieties of a native Australian plant valuable to the global pharmaceutical industry.

20 January 2025
An image of the Vaxxas high-density microarray patch (HD-MAP) technology, showing a small patch containing thousands of microprojections.

UQ’s BASE facility and biotechnology company Vaxxas have been announced as stage winners of a prestigious global prize to accelerate a patch-based mRNA vaccine for COVID-19 and influenza.

14 January 2025
the round skull of an animal with large teeth

Canine hookworms are becoming increasingly resistant to drugs across Australia and New Zealand, according to new research.

7 January 2025
brown dots rise from a group of coral against a black background

A new study reveals corals must be within only a few metres of each other to successfully reproduce, leaving them vulnerable in a warming world.

17 December 2024