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How ��̽�� researchers turned CO2 emissions into electricity

uqccla15 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 03:42:56 +0000

24 June 2024In the race towards Net Zero 2050, every discovery helps. But this breakthrough could revolutionise energy production and waste consumption. This is how it occurred.

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Energy, water and resources

Environment

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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

Defence, cyber and space

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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

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Digital technology

Social understanding

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��̽�� celebrates windfall for humanities research

uqccla15 — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 02:41:15 +0000

6 December 2023Researchers at The University of Queensland are celebrating Australia’s largest investment in humanities, arts, social sciences and Indigenous research infrastructure.

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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

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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

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Materials and advanced manufacturing

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

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Digital technology

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‘Google Human’: designing a map for the cells in the body

uqccla15 — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 04:02:04 +0000

7 August 2023What if we could design a computer application like Google Earth where scientists can zoom in to see not land or buildings, but microscopic human cells up close – and so spot disease?

Biomedical and clinical sciences

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Digital technology

How far to the next charging station?

uqccla15 — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 04:46:38 +0000

25 July 2023You’re ready for your first long road trip with your new electric vehicle, but there are nagging questions in your mind. These tips might help.

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Materials and advanced manufacturing

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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

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Digital technology

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Could lasers be the key to forecasting volcanoes?

uqccla15 — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 23:12:35 +0000

11 July 2023New research applies laser technology to read into the chemical composition of erupted magma over time.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Designing technology for tomorrow

Environment

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What are generative AI systems really doing with our data?

uqccla15 — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 21:52:13 +0000

9 June 2023��̽�� data expert Professor Shazia Sadiq worries that we are not doing enough to manage the risk of AI.

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

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Transforming societies

Researchers fermenting their way to next-gen jet fuels

uqccla15 — Wed, 03 May 2023 23:52:08 +0000

1 May 2023AIBN associate professor Esteban Marcellin and PhD candidate Karen Rodriguez are exploring gas fermentation as a cost-competitive method to decarbonise the aviation industry.

Designing technology for tomorrow

Energy, water and resources

Transforming societies

Learning to speak again

uqccla15 — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 21:35:55 +0000

30 March 2023See how the award-winning team at the Queensland Aphasia Research Centre is helping people speak to their loved ones again.

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Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

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Volunteers needed for ‘Clamp2’ vaccine testing

uqccla15 — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 21:30:16 +0000

20 March 2023Seventy healthy volunteers are needed for a study at the Nucleus Network in Brisbane to demonstrate the potential benefits of ��̽��'s second-generation molecular clamp vaccine.

Biomedical and clinical sciences

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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

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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

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Digital technology

Paving the way for new oral HIV treatments

uqccla15 — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 02:02:38 +0000

20 December 2022Dr Felicity Han says there's room for improvement when it comes to the painful injections that many people living with HIV endure each day.

Biomedical and clinical sciences

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Clamp2 provides vaccine hope for future pandemics

uqccla15 — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 01:01:17 +0000

25 November 2022The University of Queensland is set to take a second-generation molecular clamp vaccine to a human trial.

Biomedical and clinical sciences

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A smartphone app helping doctors and patients breathe easier

uqccla15 — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 22:46:05 +0000

14 October 2022With one cough, a simple and inexpensive new smartphone technology can accurately identify respiratory diseases.

Designing technology for tomorrow

Jolt needed to drive electric-vehicle uptake

uqccla15 — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 23:09:43 +0000

23 August 2022St Baker Fellow in Electromobility Dr Kai Li Lim takes a look at what needs to happen before electric vehicles become more viable in Australia.

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Environment

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What does your city sound like?

uqccla15 — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 22:50:12 +0000

5 July 2022An exciting interactive mobile app, City Symphony, streams a personal cinematic soundtrack while you stroll through Brisbane’s streets and landmarks, revealing a world of audio based on your location. See how it works.

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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

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Materials and advanced manufacturing

Exploring non-fungible tokens

uqccla15 — Thu, 05 May 2022 00:37:27 +0000

1 May 2022There’s never been a better time for brands to experiment with Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs), according to ��̽�� researchers. The Business School shares its top 3 ways for people to capitalise.

Business transformation

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Digital technology

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

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Materials and advanced manufacturing

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

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Digital technology

WATCH: Our world-first lung cancer screening facility

uqccla15 — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 04:44:22 +0000

1 December 2021A semi-trailer will be converted into the world’s first mobile lung cancer screening facility to help boost early detection and increase survival rates in rural and remote Queensland where access to specialists is limited.

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Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

Algorithms and AI: The key to delivering better patient outcomes

uqccla15 — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 01:57:39 +0000

21 December 2021New research from ��̽�� is exploring how algorithms and artificial intelligence-based systems can provide earlier, more accurate and potentially life-saving patient information to doctors and clinicians.

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Digital technology

Public and allied health

WATCH: Tracking nanoparticles in living organisms

uqccla15 — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 04:03:08 +0000

26 October 2021Professor Robert Parton explains how nanotechnology is being used to target diseased cells.

Biomedical and clinical sciences

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Digital technology

Engineering safe behaviour to save lives

uqccla15 — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 05:22:20 +0000

30 September 2021How transport engineering is helping us stay safe in the era of automated vehicles (AVs).

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Materials and advanced manufacturing

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Building dementia tech together

uqccla15 — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:56:11 +0000

22 September 2021This Dementia Week of Action, check out the incredible new technology being built by engineers alongside people living with dementia.

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Digital technology

COVID-19 killing coating a spray away

uqccla15 — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 23:07:45 +0000

15 September 2021An antiviral surface coating technology sprayed on face masks could provide an extra layer of protection against COVID-19 and the flu.

COVID-19

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Public and allied health

Eureka! Scientists strike finals gold in Australia's top science prizes

uqccla15 — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 00:27:25 +0000

3 September 2021Projects in Science, Business and Humanities have been nominated for the event which is known as the ‘Oscars’ of Australian science.

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Digital technology

A vital tool to study virus evolution in the test tube

uqccla15 — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 05:18:25 +0000

9 June 2021Variants of viruses, such as that causing COVID-19, can now be quickly studied in the laboratory, even before they emerge in nature and become a major public health challenge.

COVID-19

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Digital technology

Public and allied health

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

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Digital technology

Social understanding

'Digital twin' concept boosts food production

uqccla15 — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 23:09:42 +0000

1 August 2021Using technology familiar to computer gamers, University of Queensland scientists are creating ‘digital twins’ of mango and macadamia orchards to help boost food production.

Agribusiness

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Digital technology

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Tackling concussion head-on

uqccla15 — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 22:39:22 +0000

19 August 2021Athletes are helping a neuroscientist from QBI tackle the problem of concussion in sport head-on with the aim of developing a quick and cheap test measuring brain recovery.

Biomedical and clinical sciences

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Digital technology

Leading healthy lives

Visionary surgeon targets further world firsts

uqccla15 — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 21:24:47 +0000

30 July 2021“The most insane thing I have ever done” is how Dr Michael Wagels described the world-first reconstruction of 36 centimetres of a patient’s tibia.

Biomedical and clinical sciences

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Digital technology

How brain pacemakers are giving patients their lives back

uqccla15 — Fri, 14 May 2021 05:00:58 +0000

14 May 2021Deep brain stimulation is providing a fresh start for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder patients.

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Designing technology for tomorrow

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

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Materials and advanced manufacturing

Transforming societies

Batteries on wheels

uqccla15 — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 23:20:25 +0000

30 April 2021If electric vehicles stored energy from the grid that you could sell later for a profit, would you be more likely to want one?

Designing technology for tomorrow

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Transforming societies

Designing technology for tomorrow

How ����̽�� researchers turned CO2 emissions into electricity

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

����̽�� celebrates windfall for humanities research

Is Queensland defence smart?

����̽�� heats up the space race

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

‘Google Human’: designing a map for the cells in the body

How far to the next charging station?

UFOs, a secret program, and an alleged cover up

Could lasers be the key to forecasting volcanoes?

What are generative AI systems really doing with our data?

Researchers fermenting their way to next-gen jet fuels

Learning to speak again

Volunteers needed for ‘Clamp2’ vaccine testing

Scams, deepfake porn and romance bots

Let's chat about ChatGPT

Paving the way for new oral HIV treatments

Clamp2 provides vaccine hope for future pandemics

A smartphone app helping doctors and patients breathe easier

Jolt needed to drive electric-vehicle uptake

What does your city sound like?

How a successful rocket test unveiled a new era in hypersonics

Exploring non-fungible tokens

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

How AI is being used to fight fake news

WATCH: Our world-first lung cancer screening facility

Algorithms and AI: The key to delivering better patient outcomes

WATCH: Tracking nanoparticles in living organisms

Engineering safe behaviour to save lives

Building dementia tech together

COVID-19 killing coating a spray away

Eureka! Scientists strike finals gold in Australia's top science prizes

A vital tool to study virus evolution in the test tube

Trust issues: a roadmap for building confidence in AI

'Digital twin' concept boosts food production

Tackling concussion head-on

Visionary surgeon targets further world firsts

How brain pacemakers are giving patients their lives back

My robotic co-worker

Batteries on wheels

How ��̽�� researchers turned CO2 emissions into electricity

��̽�� celebrates windfall for humanities research

��̽�� heats up the space race

��̽��'s most fascinating gadgets revealed

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