°ÄÃÅÆßÐÇͼ researchers and educators awarded three Eureka Prizes
Teams of researchers from °ÄÃÅÆßÐÇͼ 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
Reef tourism encourages climate action
°ÄÃÅÆßÐÇͼ 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
The changes to cell DNA that could revolutionise disease prevention
°ÄÃÅÆßÐÇͼ researchers have discovered a mechanism in DNA that regulates how disease-causing mutations are inherited.
22 August 2024
A °ÄÃÅÆßÐÇͼ 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
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
The °ÄÃÅÆßÐÇͼ-led and developed COVID-19 Risk Calculator has been updated to determine a person’s risk of developing long COVID.
1 August 2024
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
Researchers from °ÄÃÅÆßÐÇͼ 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 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 °ÄÃÅÆßÐÇͼ researchers.
11 July 2024
°ÄÃÅÆßÐÇͼ-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 2024A unique method of monitoring river health has uncovered an army of tiny organisms fighting to protect the Brisbane River.
28 June 2024
Changing the way antibiotics are given to adult patients with sepsis will save thousands of lives a year globally, according to research by °ÄÃÅÆßÐÇͼ and The George Institute for Global Health.
13 June 2024
Scientists are one step closer to combatting coral-destroying crown-of-thorns starfish, following a University of Queensland study into the pest’s genetics.
15 May 2024
°ÄÃÅÆßÐÇͼ researchers have received $3.6 million from the Federal and Queensland governments to improve water quality monitoring in Great Barrier Reef catchments.
8 May 2024
Forty-five per cent of patients admitted to hospital for atrial fibrillation (AF) in Australia and New Zealand die within a decade, according to University of Queensland research.
30 April 2024
Scientists have discovered the tracks of a 5 metre-long raptor dinosaur, challenging what was previously known about the species’ size range.
26 April 2024
Remote cameras and conservation dogs will be deployed as part of a University of Queensland research project aiming to conserve four threatened Queensland reptile species.
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