Defence, cyber and space

How first-aid gel made from snake venom could control battlefield bleeding

uqccla15 — Sun, 19 May 2024 22:52:17 +0000

3 May 2024A partnership between the biomaterials research team and the US Department of Defense has harnessed two proteins from deadly snake venom that can help stop bleeding at a faster rate than ever before.

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Designing technology for tomorrow

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Australian writers have envisioned AI for a century. Here are 5 titles that capture our fears well

uqccla15 — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 02:00:59 +0000

22 April 2024Australians are nervous about AI. AustLit has picked 5 titles that it believes expertly capture our sense of anxiety and foreboding.

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Social understanding

Transforming societies

80% of Australians think AI risk is a global priority. The government needs to step up

uqccla15 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:43:17 +0000

11 March 2024A new nationally representative survey has revealed Australians are deeply concerned about the risks posed by artificial intelligence.

Defence, cyber and space

Digital technology

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Social understanding

Transforming societies

Why Coles just hired US defence contractor Palantir

uqccla15 — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 02:28:58 +0000

22 February 2024What does the Australian supermarket chain Coles have in common with the CIA? Both are now clients of Palantir Technologies.

Business transformation

Defence, cyber and space

Digital technology

Social understanding

Is Queensland defence smart?

uqccla15 — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 22:04:19 +0000

27 September 2023An expert panel has heard that ��̽�� can help usher in the next generation of defence capabilities, including hypersonics, quantum technologies, and AI.

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Social understanding

Transforming societies

��̽�� heats up the space race

uqccla15 — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 01:06:02 +0000

8 September 2023A custom-built furnace that can heat materials to almost 3000 degrees Celsius has been installed at The University of Queensland to develop components for Australia’s burgeoning space industry.

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Transforming societies

Award winner's AI plan to prevent youth vaping

uqccla15 — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 01:14:16 +0000

5 September 2023Vaping has dramatically increased in popularity in recent years, with a 40% surge in users between 2018 and 2022. But what if Artificial Intelligence could stop young people from taking up the habit?

Defence, cyber and space

Digital technology

Public and allied health

Social understanding

Transforming societies

��̽��'s most fascinating gadgets revealed

uqccla15 — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 02:11:25 +0000

31 August 2023��̽�� boasts an extraordinary range of unique and mind-blowing capabilities. From supercomputers to cyclotrons for nuclear medicine, these are some of our most fascinating gadgets.

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Social understanding

UFOs, a secret program, and an alleged cover up

uqccla15 — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 03:58:33 +0000

17 July 2023US Congress will investigate the supposed existence of a secret UFO retrieval program. Here's what you should know.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Preparing Australian forces for future conflict

uqccla15 — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 21:54:23 +0000

30 June 2023The world faces an uncertain future. So, how can defence forces around the world educate personnel to fight in an ever-changing environment?

Defence, cyber and space

Transforming societies

��̽�� researcher puts organised crime under the spotlight

uqccla15 — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 22:43:42 +0000

21 February 2023Organised crime is not just the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters. This month The University of Queensland hosts the annual Transnational Organised Crime Program – an international research and learning initiative.

Defence, cyber and space

Transforming societies

Scams, deepfake porn and romance bots

uqccla15 — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 02:47:55 +0000

6 February 2023Advanced AI is exciting, but incredibly dangerous in criminals’ hands, writes Senior Research Fellow Dr Brendan Walker-Munro.

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Social understanding

Let's chat about ChatGPT

uqccla15 — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:21:02 +0000

30 January 2023Is AI technology saving your time or stealing your job? ��̽�� expert Missy Burrell shares her insights on the latest AI sensation.

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Why you should be more vigilant with your data than ever before

uqccla15 — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 02:58:58 +0000

10 November 2022Learn about the ways criminals are using your data against you in the wake of the Optus hacking scandal.

Defence, cyber and space

Digital technology

Social understanding

Why do people use dating apps to abuse others?

uqccla15 — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 00:53:09 +0000

28 October 2022Incredibly, three-quarters dating app users surveyed say they have experienced some form of sexual abuse online. What does the research tell us about people who hide behind these apps to harm others?

Defence, cyber and space

Social understanding

Optus says it needed to keep identity data for 6 years. But did it really?

uqccla15 — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 23:36:34 +0000

4 October 2022The big problem with Australia’s data retention laws is that there’s really no limit on how long a company can keep personal data, Dr Brendan Walker-Munro explains.

Business transformation

Defence, cyber and space

Social understanding

How a successful rocket test unveiled a new era in hypersonics

uqccla15 — Thu, 05 May 2022 23:43:10 +0000

6 May 2022The month of March will go down in history as a milestone in hypersonic technology research, after a rocket was successfully launched by The United States Air Force and ��̽��.

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Materials and advanced manufacturing

How ��̽�� researchers are helping to protect the spacecraft that will explore Uranus and Neptune

uqccla15 — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 21:09:48 +0000

25 March 2022Tucked away under ��̽��’s Hawken Engineering Building, an unassuming-looking metal tube is playing an important role in exploring our solar system’s most distant planets.

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Materials and advanced manufacturing

There’s no ‘I’ in team, and that may ring true for Putin

uqccla15 — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 02:54:02 +0000

22 March 2022What makes a good leader? Professor Alex Haslam and Dr Nik Steffens discuss the approaches to leadership at the centre of the Ukraine-Russia conflict.

Defence, cyber and space

Social understanding

Transforming societies

How AI is being used to fight fake news

uqccla15 — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 23:26:06 +0000

15 February 2022Which sources do you trust to tell you what you should distrust?

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Trust issues: a roadmap for building confidence in AI

uqccla15 — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:11:43 +0000

24 August 2021A world-first research project led by the ��̽�� Business School in partnership with KPMG has discovered 72 per cent of people don’t trust AI.

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Social understanding

The power of pictures to change global politics

uqccla15 — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 04:51:54 +0000

7 July 2021Professor Roland Bleiker from ��̽��’s School of Political Science and International Studies will lead eight scholars from three universities and four industry partners examining how compelling images can transform the delivery of international aid.

Defence, cyber and space

Digital technology

Social understanding

Transforming societies

The cryptic world of cryptocurrencies

uqccla15 — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:06:59 +0000

2 June 2021How does Bitcoin actually work? Is it a good investment? And what on earth is Dogecoin?

Business transformation

Defence, cyber and space

Digital technology

Social understanding

Taking flight with technology for tomorrow

uqsackfu — Thu, 27 May 2021 01:59:33 +0000

10 September 2018To celebrate Research Week 2018, ��̽�� is proud to share how ��̽�� research is creating change, right across the world, every day. Find out how our researchers are collaborating with research partners both in Australia and abroad to develop aerospace technology for tomorrow.

Defence, cyber and space

Digital technology

Impact

Need for speed

uqsackfu — Wed, 26 May 2021 01:00:46 +0000

3 January 2018��̽�� scientists are taking giant leaps in hypersonic flight research. And while travelling between Sydney and London in two hours may be off in the horizon, rumblings about ��̽��’s plans for small satellite launches using scramjet engines are being felt across the globe.

Defence, cyber and space

Impact

Downloading our thoughts to the mainframe may be the stuff of science fiction — but humans have been imagining it for centuries

uqccla15 — Mon, 24 May 2021 01:11:51 +0000

17 May 2021The public intellectual Sam Harris and world-renowned physicist David Deutsch imagine a future where we are able to download conscious states and live in matrix-like virtual simulations.

Defence, cyber and space

Digital technology

To infinity and beyond

uqsackfu — Fri, 21 May 2021 05:40:45 +0000

12 September 2019How a ��̽�� researcher intends to take a quantum leap to defy sceptics and multiply our understanding of the universe.

Defence, cyber and space

Impact

Heart of darkness

uqsackfu — Fri, 21 May 2021 05:02:52 +0000

4 January 2018From big things, little things grow – in outer space, anyway! ��̽�� is part of a multi-institutional team that is pioneering new discoveries in astrophysics research, finding double the number of supermassive black holes than previously thought, and paving the way for future discoveries in the discipline.

Defence, cyber and space

Impact

Israel-Palestinian violence: why East Jerusalem has become a flashpoint in a decades-old conflict

uqccla15 — Wed, 12 May 2021 21:50:51 +0000

13 May 2021Weeks of tensions between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces in East Jerusalem have boiled over in recent days, unleashing some of the worst violence between Israel and the Palestinians in years.

Defence, cyber and space

Social understanding

My robotic co-worker

uqccla15 — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 23:26:12 +0000

30 April 2021How ��̽�� researchers are helping the Australian defence force design autonomous machines that will one day work alongside us.

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Transforming societies

Astronauts test virus-fighting surface coating developed by ��̽�� and Boeing

uqclayt — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:43:28 +0000

19 February 2021Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are conducting experiments with an antimicrobial surface coating designed to fight the spread of bacteria and viruses.

COVID-19

From the media

Social impacts

Defence, cyber and space

How is the coronavirus outbreak affecting China’s relations with its Asian neighbours?

uqsoutra — Wed, 13 May 2020 11:51:50 +0000

26 April 2020How has China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic—inside and outside of China—affected perceptions of China among countries in Asia?

COVID-19

Economic impacts

Defence, cyber and space

How to spot fake news

uqsoutra — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 11:50:39 +0000

17 March 2020By developing artificial intelligence systems and collecting a range of online data over several years, ��̽�� researchers have shown how bias and stereotypes affect the way we trust information.

COVID-19

Cybersecurity

Health and wellbeing

Defence, cyber and space

Stop COVID-19 bots

uqsoutra — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 11:42:48 +0000

23 March 2020Twitter bots plant comments into social media feeds, usually with a deeper intention to misinform or alter opinions of the general public. How can you stop them?

COVID-19

Cybersecurity

Defence, cyber and space

Defence, cyber and space

How first-aid gel made from snake venom could control battlefield bleeding

Australian writers have envisioned AI for a century. Here are 5 titles that capture our fears well

80% of Australians think AI risk is a global priority. The government needs to step up

Why Coles just hired US defence contractor Palantir

Is Queensland defence smart?

����̽�� heats up the space race

Award winner's AI plan to prevent youth vaping

����̽��'s most fascinating gadgets revealed

UFOs, a secret program, and an alleged cover up

Preparing Australian forces for future conflict

����̽�� researcher puts organised crime under the spotlight

Scams, deepfake porn and romance bots

Let's chat about ChatGPT

Why you should be more vigilant with your data than ever before

Why do people use dating apps to abuse others?

Optus says it needed to keep identity data for 6 years. But did it really?

How a successful rocket test unveiled a new era in hypersonics

How ����̽�� researchers are helping to protect the spacecraft that will explore Uranus and Neptune

There’s no ‘I’ in team, and that may ring true for Putin

How AI is being used to fight fake news

Trust issues: a roadmap for building confidence in AI

The power of pictures to change global politics

The cryptic world of cryptocurrencies

Taking flight with technology for tomorrow

Need for speed

Downloading our thoughts to the mainframe may be the stuff of science fiction — but humans have been imagining it for centuries

To infinity and beyond

Heart of darkness

Israel-Palestinian violence: why East Jerusalem has become a flashpoint in a decades-old conflict

My robotic co-worker

Astronauts test virus-fighting surface coating developed by ����̽�� and Boeing

How is the coronavirus outbreak affecting China’s relations with its Asian neighbours?

How to spot fake news

Stop COVID-19 bots

��̽�� heats up the space race

��̽��'s most fascinating gadgets revealed

��̽�� researcher puts organised crime under the spotlight

How ��̽�� researchers are helping to protect the spacecraft that will explore Uranus and Neptune

Astronauts test virus-fighting surface coating developed by ��̽�� and Boeing