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A University of Queensland STEM education program is one step closer to winning a Science Breakthrough of the Year category in the Falling Walls Global Call 2024.

2 October 2024
aerial view of the rooves of houses in brown floodwater

A multi-disciplinary Â鶹ÊÓƵ project aims to quantify how many Australians will be forced to relocate because of climate change disaster scenarios in the next 25 years.

2 October 2024
Close up of koala in tree. Image, Adobe.

Records of koala admissions to veterinary hospitals in South East Queensland show euthanasia was the most common outcome, according to University of Queensland research.

10 September 2024
A photo of a stage, lit up with pink and blue lights, and a glass trophy in the foreground saying Eureka Prizes.

Teams of researchers from Â鶹ÊÓƵ working on pioneering melanoma imaging and preventing deadly infections, along with a science engagement team, have won prestigious 2024 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes.

5 September 2024
Different sized coral underwater

Â鶹ÊÓƵ research has revealed that informing tourists visiting the Great Barrier Reef about climate impact doesn’t negatively affect their experience and can help encourage climate action.

3 September 2024
Two scientists wearing white lab coats, and goggles stand in a corridor smiling at the camera.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ researchers have discovered a mechanism in DNA that regulates how disease-causing mutations are inherited.

22 August 2024
A spiky white hailstone, flecked with small dots of black paint, rests on a scale on a desk.

A Â鶹ÊÓƵ library – full of hailstones instead of books – is helping researchers to better understand and predict damaging storms.

16 August 2024

Scientists have unearthed the deepest column of marine rock ever extracted from Earth’s mantle – the enormous layer below its crust – which could help reveal conditions at the dawn of life.

9 August 2024
White coral underwater.

Leading scientists have found that sea surface temperatures on the Great Barrier Reef have reached a 400-year critical level, with human-induced climate change to blame.

8 August 2024
A graphic illustrating a red virus being dragged behind a model of a human being against a grey background.

The Â鶹ÊÓƵ-led and developed COVID-19 Risk Calculator has been updated to determine a person’s risk of developing long COVID.

1 August 2024
Image of crown-of-thorns starfish larvae taken under a florescence microscope.

Researchers have uncovered an under the sea phenomenon where coral-destroying crown-of-thorns starfish larvae have been feasting on blue-green algae bacteria known as ‘sea sawdust’.

18 July 2024
A microscopic view of bacteria cells

Researchers from Â鶹ÊÓƵ of Queensland have identified how a common bacterium is able to manipulate the human immune system during respiratory infections and cause persistent illness.

12 July 2024
A new coloured ESA/Hubble image of Omega Centauri showing location of black hole. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Häberle (MPIA)

A massive black hole – about 20,000 times the size of the sun – has been confirmed as the closest to our solar system by an international study involving Â鶹ÊÓƵ researchers.

11 July 2024
An aerial photo of a pod of whales in dark blue water, with part of a rainbow visible.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ-led research has found migrating humpback whales off Australia’s east coast became less stressed over the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

5 July 2024
Two people on a dock collecting water samples with a boat and brown river behind them.

A unique method of monitoring river health has uncovered an army of tiny organisms fighting to protect the Brisbane River.

28 June 2024