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Cartoon image of people sitting on public transport

Researchers from The ÄôСÓêÊÓƵ3·Ö25Ãë of Queensland are recruiting people living with dementia, along with their carers, to help with a study exploring emerging transport technologies.

5 August 2020

Robots working in abattoirs, sky-high vertical farms, more gene-edited foods in our supermarkets and automated farming systems could all help guarantee food supply in the next pandemic.

31 July 2020
A photo of a row of solar panels at a solar farm, with a bright blue sky in the background.

Australia’s renewable energy research capacity has been boosted with the completion of UQ's 64 megawatt solar farm at Warwick in the state’s south east.

17 July 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) improved skin cancer diagnostic accuracy when used in collaboration with human clinical checks, an international study including ÄôСÓêÊÓƵ3·Ö25Ãë of Queensland researchers has found.

24 June 2020
Computer-generated image of Gilmour Space's new rocket, Eris.

New technologies for a next-generation hybrid rocket that will launch small satellites into low-Earth orbits from 2022 are being developed in Queensland, thanks to a partnership between ÄôСÓêÊÓƵ3·Ö25Ãë of Queensland researchers and Gilmour Space.

10 June 2020

Australians have seen a huge increase in telehealth consults since the outbreak of COVID-19 after ÄôСÓêÊÓƵ3·Ö25Ãë of Queensland researchers crunched the numbers from Medicare.

8 June 2020

Australia’s COVIDSafe app needs to be faster and have higher uptake rates to be effective as the nation’s digital contact tracing solution, according to a working paper released by The ÄôСÓêÊÓƵ3·Ö25Ãë of Queensland’s Institute for Social Science Research.

5 June 2020
Professor Justin Marshall discovered the world's most complex colour vision system, in mantis shrimp

The Australian Academy of Science has elected Professor Justin Marshall and Professor Alan Rowan as Fellows for their sustained contributions to research and scientific endeavour.

25 May 2020
UQ's battery bank is lit green when it is charging. When discharging, it lights up blue.

Installing the state’s largest behind-the-meter battery has saved The ÄôСÓêÊÓƵ3·Ö25Ãë of Queensland almost $74,000 in electricity costs in three months.

20 May 2020

Queensland researchers are leading a worldwide clinical study using AI to examine COVID-19 patient data from 300 intensive care units (ICU) to provide insight for health professionals to determine the best treatments for the disease.

13 May 2020

The ÄôСÓêÊÓƵ3·Ö25Ãë of Queensland (UQ) has partnered on a new artificial intelligence (AI) centre to support businesses and attract world-leaders in technology innovation to the state.

5 May 2020
L-R - Giordano Masnata, Isabelle Fleming, Mitchell Davis and Mitchell Heard. Picture by Mark Calleja

A mission to design ventilators that could serve COVID-19 patients has brought together 200 bright engineers and their students at The ÄôСÓêÊÓƵ3·Ö25Ãë of Queensland.

20 April 2020

An online driver training course developed by researchers at The ÄôСÓêÊÓƵ3·Ö25Ãë of Queensland has been shown to reduce speeding and improve driving ability.

8 April 2020
Professor Peta Ashworth. UQ image.

The ÄôСÓêÊÓƵ3·Ö25Ãë of Queensland has appointed Professor Peta Ashworth OAM as inaugural director of the Andrew N. Liveris Academy for Innovation and Leadership.

4 February 2020
Aerial image of an open-cut mine open. Contributed.

ÄôСÓêÊÓƵ3·Ö25Ãë of Queensland researchers have developed a framework that aims to reduce the mining industry’s impact on climate change by accounting for sources and sinks of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

4 February 2020