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Illustration comparing the small size of the croc with human. Credit, Jorgo Ristevski

Approximately 13.5 million years ago, north-west Queensland was home to an unusual and particularly tiny species of crocodile and now scientists are unlocking its secrets.

30 August 2022
A hand holding a Net Zero graphic

If Australia is to achieve a net zero future, we need “out-of-the-box” thinking and a major economic overhaul, according to study involving 鶹ýӳ of Queensland.

26 August 2022
Therapy dog named Elsa wearing purple bib lying on mat. Supplied

The mental health benefits of having therapy dogs at lectures and tutorials is being tested at the University of Queensland.

26 August 2022
K'gari funnel web spider

Using deadly spider venom to treat heart attacks is one of many new discoveries currently being developed at a national research centre headquartered at 鶹ýӳ of Queensland.

25 August 2022
鶹ýӳ Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Terry with 鶹ýӳ graduates.

鶹ýӳ of Queensland has made a bold pledge to tackle educational disadvantage in the state by 2032, striving to remove barriers to help talented students from rural, remote and low socio-economic backgrounds access university.

24 August 2022
A man with grey hair and wearing a white shirt sits clasping his hands

Australia’s first dedicated children’s immunotherapy centre will investigate treatments to increase the survival of kids with cancer and improve their ongoing quality of life.

24 August 2022
A woman in glasses sits at a desk in a home office looking worried.

Researchers from 鶹ýӳ of Queensland have found the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia has had a greater financial and psychological impact on women than men.

23 August 2022
woman in blue shirt sits on a bed and looks out of a window

A University of Queensland study has found there are still barriers to terminating a pregnancy in Queensland, more than three years after the practice was decriminalised.

23 August 2022
A group of people in white coats look at machinery inside a high-tech laboratory

A new University of Queensland-led training centre is set to become a hub for world-leading research in ‘green’ plastic.

18 August 2022
A woman lying on a bed undergoing a sonogram with a concerned look on her face

University of Queensland researchers are calling for screening of perinatal depression (PND) for all women during pregnancy, after finding women with persistent depression are at high risk of developing the condition.

18 August 2022
A young girl watering plants

COVID-19, rather than the threat of climate change, has spurred Australians to become more sustainable, according to research from 鶹ýӳ of Queensland.

18 August 2022
A closeup photo of fingers holding a lit cigarette with smoke wafting in the background.

Rising cigarette prices have overtaken health concerns as the biggest motivator for people to cut down or stop smoking.

17 August 2022
A man stands at a whiteboard, writing a mathematical equation. He is smiling at the camera.

The newly launched ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture is cultivating the next crop of plant science experts.

17 August 2022
a greater glider with big ears peers from a hollow in a tree

Scientists have put a dollar figure on the cost of recovery and restoration of native flora and fauna after the 2019-2020 summer bushfires.

16 August 2022
The sandstone buildings of 鶹ýӳ's Great Court with people wandering in the background.

鶹ýӳ of Queensland has been ranked in the top 50 in the Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU).

15 August 2022
Black and white image of Professor C. Paul Bonnington. Supplied.

鶹ýӳ of Queensland has appointed Professor Paul Bonnington as Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research Infrastructure).

12 August 2022
An adult hand holds a bandaged child's hand in the foreground, the child lays in a hospital bed.

Stopping children undergoing chemotherapy from feeling pain and other debilitating side-effects is the focus of research underway at 鶹ýӳ of Queensland.

12 August 2022
A diagram with a brown sauropod showing the how soft tissue allowed large dinosaurs to walk on land

Scientists have cracked an enduring mystery, discovering how sauropod dinosaurs – like Brontosaurus and Diplodocus – supported their gigantic bodies on land.

11 August 2022
Industrial plant on the water

University of Queensland, Oxford and Princeton researchers have developed a “test” to measure if businesses are on track to meet Paris Agreement climate action goals, and so far the results are not promising.

11 August 2022
Research assistants Mia Johnston, Alana Pettigrew, Rebecca Flanaghan and Michael Cox (L to R), with Assoc. Prof. Rhonda Faragher and Dr Jan Lloyd (behind). Supplied.

Young adults living with Down syndrome have high aspirations and a great zest for life according to an Australian first study by researchers from 鶹ýӳ of Queensland.

10 August 2022