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  • Animal-inspired liquid metal 'spines' in focus being held with tweezers with a researcher wear safety goggles in the background.

    Giving animal strength to medical robotics

    ¿ì²¥É«ÇéƬ researchers have developed a 3D printing method to produce shape-shifting liquid metal robotics with musculoskeletal qualities inspired by animal physiology.

    19 December 2024
  • Backs of an audience in a dark conference room facing the stage.

    Queensland the home of Quantum

    Growing Australia’s quantum ecosystem will be the focus when hundreds of delegates from government, industry and research converge in Brisbane next year.

    19 November 2024
  • Two hands lean on a desktop holding a phone

    Facebook ads targeting people at risk of harm under scrutiny

    A ¿ì²¥É«ÇéƬ-led study has revealed how alcohol and gambling companies target people with Facebook advertising for addictive products.

    18 November 2024

Australia’s renewable energy research capacity has been boosted with the completion of ¿ì²¥É«ÇéƬ’s 64 megawatt solar farm at Warwick in the state’s south east.

17 July 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) improved skin cancer diagnostic accuracy when used in collaboration with human clinical checks, an international study including University of Queensland researchers has found.

24 June 2020
Computer-generated image of Gilmour Space's new rocket, Eris.

New technologies for a next-generation hybrid rocket that will launch small satellites into low-Earth orbits from 2022 are being developed in Queensland, thanks to a partnership between University of Queensland researchers and Gilmour Space.

10 June 2020

Australians have seen a huge increase in telehealth consults since the outbreak of COVID-19 after University of Queensland researchers crunched the numbers from Medicare.

8 June 2020

Australia’s COVIDSafe app needs to be faster and have higher uptake rates to be effective as the nation’s digital contact tracing solution, according to a working paper released by ¿ì²¥É«ÇéƬ’s Institute for Social Science Research.

5 June 2020
Professor Justin Marshall discovered the world's most complex colour vision system, in mantis shrimp

The Australian Academy of Science has elected Professor Justin Marshall and Professor Alan Rowan as Fellows for their sustained contributions to research and scientific endeavour.

25 May 2020
¿ì²¥É«ÇéƬ's battery bank is lit green when it is charging. When discharging, it lights up blue.

Installing the state’s largest behind-the-meter battery has saved ¿ì²¥É«ÇéƬ almost $74,000 in electricity costs in three months.

20 May 2020

Queensland researchers are leading a worldwide clinical study using AI to examine COVID-19 patient data from 300 intensive care units (ICU) to provide insight for health professionals to determine the best treatments for the disease.

13 May 2020

¿ì²¥É«ÇéƬ (¿ì²¥É«ÇéƬ) has partnered on a new artificial intelligence (AI) centre to support businesses and attract world-leaders in technology innovation to the state.

5 May 2020
L-R - Giordano Masnata, Isabelle Fleming, Mitchell Davis and Mitchell Heard. Picture by Mark Calleja

A mission to design ventilators that could serve COVID-19 patients has brought together 200 bright engineers and their students at ¿ì²¥É«ÇéƬ.

20 April 2020

An online driver training course developed by researchers at ¿ì²¥É«ÇéƬ has been shown to reduce speeding and improve driving ability.

8 April 2020
Professor Peta Ashworth. ¿ì²¥É«ÇéƬ image.

¿ì²¥É«ÇéƬ has appointed Professor Peta Ashworth OAM as inaugural director of the Andrew N. Liveris Academy for Innovation and Leadership.

4 February 2020
Aerial image of an open-cut mine open. Contributed.

University of Queensland researchers have developed a framework that aims to reduce the mining industry’s impact on climate change by accounting for sources and sinks of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

4 February 2020
Turbulence (seen here in cyclones) ... is described as the oldest unsolved problem in physics. Image by WikiImages from Pixabay

University of Queensland researchers have combined quantum liquids and silicon-chip technology to study turbulence for the first time, opening the door to new navigation technologies and improved understanding of the turbulent dynamics of cyclones...

20 December 2019
Incontinence affects almost 40 per cent of Australian women – often due to pregnancy, childbirth and menopause, says Lissy Changuion

¿ì²¥É«ÇéƬ’s 2020 ilab Accelerator program has awarded $20,000 each to seven aspiring startups to help them launch.

11 December 2019