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Call for volunteers for quit smoking study with benefits

Queenslanders who want to give up smoking can access free nicotine replacement therapies and potentially life-saving lung cancer screening by participating in a new study.

1 November 2024
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Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Pharmacy researcher celebrated for excellence in Indigenous education

A First Nations Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ academic is aiming to help address the under representation of Indigenous people in Australia’s pharmacy workforce.

31 October 2024
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Drastic ecosystem interventions like eradicating an unwanted species can sometimes backfire, but new University of Queensland-led modelling may help to avoid these ecological hiccups.

29 January 2020

We are closer to understanding the incredible ability of squid to instantly camouflage themselves thanks to research from Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland.

28 January 2020

Some forms of domestic violence double victims’ risk of depression and anxiety disorders later in life, according to University of Queensland research.

28 January 2020
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Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland has been asked to develop a vaccine for the recent coronavirus outbreak at unprecedented speed, using new technology.

24 January 2020
A Caribbean reef shark is surrounded by smaller fish. Credit: Global FinPrint project.

‘No-take’ marine reserves - where fishing is banned - can reverse the decline in the world’s coral reef shark populations caused by overfishing, according to an Australian study.

24 January 2020
A mantis shrimp

Pioneering discoveries about the ‘extraordinarily strange’ visual systems of shrimps - that could improve early detection of cancer - have been recognised with an international prize.

23 January 2020
Dr Kristen Radford, left, Adam Briner and Chloe Yap.

University of Queensland scientists are heading ‘stateside’ with the support of 2020 Fulbright scholarships.

21 January 2020

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ of Queensland has appointed Dr Jessica Gallagher as Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­â€™s inaugural Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement & Entrepreneurship).

21 January 2020
Hemiscyllium halmahera  (credit: Mark Erdmann)

Four new species of tropical sharks that use their fins to walk are causing a stir in waters off northern Australia and New Guinea.

21 January 2020
A fisherman fishes on the rocks

A collaborative research project, including University of Queensland scientists, is under way to identify and measure the effects of environmental drivers on several key Queensland fishery species – snapper, pearl perch, and spanner crab.

20 January 2020

More than 11,000 manta ray sighting records – from scuba divers, aerial surveys and online submissions – have helped researchers better understand reef manta ray distribution around Australia, finding ‘missing’ populations of rays.

20 January 2020