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A University of Queensland social scientist has confirmed 97 per cent of climate scientists agree global warming is caused by people.

13 April 2016

A University of Queensland researcher has made a big step toward the holy grail of biomedical science — a new form of effective pain relief.

11 April 2016
Pinckney Marcius-Simons (USA, 1867-1909); watercolour illustrations painted onto the pages of an 1886 French edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream, translated by Paul Meurice. 1908. Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Four-hundred years after William Shakespeare’s death, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland will host a series of events in 2016 celebrating the poet’s life and times.

11 April 2016
The new drug is derived from Oldenlandia affinis, a traditional medicinal plant.

An international research team has demonstrated that a new plant-derived drug can block the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS).

11 April 2016

MORE than 150,000 learners around the world have gone online to prepare for their English language tests through a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) offered by Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland.

8 April 2016
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­'s International Physicists’ Tournament team with Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Peter Høj.

A team of young physicists from Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland has made history by becoming the first Australian team to win entry into the International Physicists’ Tournament.

8 April 2016
The Veefil DC fast charger.

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland is embracing the future of sustainable transport, installing four solar-powered electric vehicle chargers at its St Lucia and Gatton campuses.

7 April 2016

Today is World Health Day: Beat Diabetes. Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ experts are available for comment on diabetes-related topics, including drug development, physical activity, diet and body mass, and autoimmune diabetes.

7 April 2016

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland will help St George slay dental problems, thanks to a new clinic run in partnership with Goondir Health Services.

6 April 2016
A 19th century whaler originally proposed the hypothesis on the battering ram function of the sperm whale head. Image: iStock

The idea that a sperm whale can use its massive head as a battering ram to sink ships has been hotly debated at least since Moby Dick was published in 1851.

5 April 2016

Scientists at the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland and the University of California San Francisco have found a new way to inhibit the growth of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB).

5 April 2016
The stoplight parrotfish (Sparisoma viride), one of the most important fish on coral reefs, yet also a highly sought-after fishery species

New science-based fishery regulations are needed if coral reefs are to have a future in the face of climate change.

5 April 2016
A bright laser beam was used to draw energy out of waves on the surface of the superfluid. Credit: Dr Christopher Baker and Professor Warwick Bowen

Australian researchers from Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland have, for the first time, used laser light to cool a special form of quantum liquid, called a superfluid.

5 April 2016

Social media and electronic gaming strategies can have an extremely positive influence on the lives of impoverished families, a study of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland’s Triple P Online program has found.

4 April 2016
The solar research facility at Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­'s Gatton campus.

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland has slashed grid electricity use at its Gatton campus by 40 per cent since bringing Australia’s largest solar research facility on-line a year ago.

31 March 2016
Dr Ralph Kelsey.

In a major win for rural health, a former president of the Australian Dental Association (Queensland Branch) has been appointed to Goondir Health Clinic at Dalby.

31 March 2016
Professor Alex Haslam

Most terrorists are not psychopaths or sadists, nor are they people who would necessarily be inclined to shoot a gun or plant a bomb.

31 March 2016

Statement from Associate Professor Jon Willis, Director and Manager of Academic Programs, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit.

30 March 2016
Cuicocha crater lake, Reserve Cotacachi-Cayapas, Ecuador (iStock)

Conservation research is not being done in the countries where it is most needed – a situation which is likely to undermine efforts to preserve global biodiversity.

30 March 2016
A piece of the series by Hollie.

A new exhibition at Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland Art Museum offers an insight into Brisbane’s energetic artist-run scene of the 1980s, a time of immense transformation.

29 March 2016