Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

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.

Designing technology for tomorrow

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Transforming societies

Take 5: Our researchers make sense of the world 5 questions at a time

uqccla15 — Mon, 20 May 2024 01:40:48 +0000

20 May 2024Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa is striving to answer the question: how can we produce, process, preserve and protect our food in the most natural way possible?

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Agribusiness

Building better bioeconomies

Business transformation

Energy, water and resources

Environment

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Social understanding

From the outback to the Olympics: how native food is changing how we eat and buy

uqccla15 — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 03:15:32 +0000

26 April 2024Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa has a vision: native food telling the story of Australia's Indigenous culture at the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.

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Agribusiness

Building better bioeconomies

Business transformation

Environment

Impact

Leading healthy lives

Transforming societies

Heavy rain, flash flooding are possible later this year. Here’s why

uqccla15 — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 23:49:35 +0000

25 March 2024Another La Niña is being predicted for later this year – a situation that researchers are calling “unusual”. This is what it would mean for our already rain-soaked nation.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Agribusiness

Environment

Social understanding

New high-tech spray holds out hope for native trees

uqccla15 — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 02:48:53 +0000

12 February 2024QAAFI researchers have used RNA technology – similar to that in COVID vaccines – to create a highly targeted treatment for myrtle rust: a spray that can restore even severely infected trees to health in around six weeks.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

Bioplastics vital in fight against ‘wicked' plastic pollution

uqccla15 — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 04:12:38 +0000

31 January 2024Bioplastics can help address the “wicked problem” of plastic pollution, but companies and research institutions need to take a holistic approach, says Associate Professor Steven Pratt.

Health and wellbeing

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Building better bioeconomies

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Do I need the new COVID booster?

uqccla15 — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 21:57:00 +0000

1 December 2023What are the new COVID booster vaccines? Can I get one? Do they work? And are they safe?

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Biomedical and clinical sciences

Public and allied health

Social understanding

8 ways to tone down the Christmas lights to help wildlife – and why we should

uqccla15 — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 04:28:16 +0000

15 December 2023The Australian government has launched a campaign asking people to “switch off light pollution” to protect wildlife. So, what does the science say? Should we rethink Christmas lights?

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

We thought we’d find 200 species living in our house and yard. We were very wrong

uqccla15 — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 01:00:27 +0000

11 December 2023These biodiversity researchers got more than they bargained for during COVID, uncovering an ecosystem in their house and yard.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

Social understanding

Bouncing back into your career

uqccla15 — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 01:48:28 +0000

13 November 2023Our experts share their top tips for overcoming a professional setback or break in your career.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Business transformation

Social understanding

How deep freezing native plants could prevent extinction

uqccla15 — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:48:11 +0000

6 November 2023A process similar to that used to store human embryos is being used by scientists to save native Australian plants under threat from the invasive fungus, myrtle rust.

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Agribusiness

Energy, water and resources

Environment

��̽�� designates campus in Queensland biomed hotspot

uqccla15 — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 23:48:29 +0000

1 November 2023��̽�� is cementing its presence in the rapidly growing biotechnology precinct in Brisbane’s south, announcing that an existing site will become ��̽��’s fourth campus: ��̽�� Dutton Park.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Business transformation

Transforming societies

PM awards innovation prize to ��̽�� venom researcher

uqccla15 — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 03:05:23 +0000

17 October 2023When Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation recipient Professor Glenn King wanted to develop bee-friendly insecticides, he sought help from unexpected allies. This is his story.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Environment

Leading healthy lives

Home insurance bills are soaring as climate risks grow

uqccla15 — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 01:23:59 +0000

25 September 2023The government should step in to ease the burden of climate-induced cost of living hikes, says a team of ��̽�� researchers.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

No boundary: From Brisbane to Perth, Broome and Darwin

uqccla15 — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 01:00:56 +0000

18 September 2023PhD candidate Sukirtha Srivarathan from QAAFI has found that edible halophytes have potential as a bushfoods business opportunity.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Agribusiness

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Groundbreaking report details how Australia can make net zero happen

uqccla15 — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 01:46:32 +0000

21 July 2023Australia will need to speed up and broaden its decarbonisation efforts to achieve net zero by 2050, according to the final report of the Net Zero Australia project.

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Agribusiness

Business transformation

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Transforming societies

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.

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Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

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

Social understanding

For our Elders: Q&A with Lorelle Holland

uqccla15 — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 02:19:33 +0000

4 July 2023To address the 2023 National NAIDOC Week theme ‘For our Elders’, we asked HaBS academics to share their stories about some of the Elders who have inspired them, and why it’s important to have these strong relationships.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Social understanding

Transforming societies

Rising monkey and pig populations pose human disease risk

uqccla15 — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 02:05:03 +0000

3 July 2023Exploding wild pig and macaque monkey populations in Southeast Asia are threatening native forests and disease outbreaks in livestock and people.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

Public and allied health

Striking a nerve

uqccla15 — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 23:28:38 +0000

12 June 2023��̽�� researchers have shown for the first time that some of the world’s most painful ant stings target nerves, like snake and scorpion venom.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

Public and allied health

Bees abuzz for biosecurity in avocados

uqccla15 — Wed, 03 May 2023 23:16:32 +0000

1 April 2023Bees can help prove Australia's valuable avocado crop is free of a pathogen that could be a barrier to exports, according to ��̽�� and the CSIRO.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

Social understanding

Predators munch on crown-of-thorns starfish

uqccla15 — Wed, 03 May 2023 23:08:20 +0000

5 April 2023��̽�� scientists have identified natural predators which could help fight outbreaks of the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

Transforming societies

Interest rates could return to normal next year, but here's what you should know in the meantime

uqccla15 — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 22:08:36 +0000

16 March 2023Research News spoke to ��̽��'s Dr Lin Mi about what she thinks will happen next, and what the latest research is telling us about property prices.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Business transformation

Social understanding

Tales from the reef: wild encounters in a marine wonderland

uqccla15 — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 22:05:52 +0000

10 March 2023Sir David Attenborough called it "the most magical place". Here's what our researchers and other observers said about ��̽��'s renowned research station on Heron Island.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

This problem weed is evolving

uqccla15 — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:40:49 +0000

9 March 2023WATCH THE VIDEO: An introduced weed that already costs Australian grain growers more than $90 million a year is becoming an even bigger threat according to University of Queensland-led research.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Agribusiness

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Addressing the challenge of water scarcity in Chile

uqccla15 — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:25:41 +0000

2 March 2023Rainfall in Central Chile has dropped by a third in the past decade. It's a major climate issue that needs urgent attention, and SMI's researchers believe they have a solution.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Building better bioeconomies

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Transforming societies

Could fungi really be the last of us?

uqccla15 — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 23:00:08 +0000

28 February 2023Inside the threat of Cordyceps — the very real fungus at the centre of the latest TV smash hit.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

Transforming societies

Snakes can hear more than you think

uqccla15 — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 23:07:37 +0000

15 February 2023A University of Queensland-led study has found that contrary to popular belief, snakes can hear and react to airborne sound.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

How a digital tool aims to prevent Vietnam's Dengue epidemic

uqccla15 — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 23:10:55 +0000

9 February 2023E-Dengue uses a prediction model to help local communities and health centres mitigate outbreaks of the mosquito-borne disease in the Mekong Delta Region.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Public and allied health

Transforming societies

Why fly larvae could be the future of sustainable meat

uqccla15 — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 03:45:37 +0000

23 January 2023Would you eat a burger patty made of fly larvae? Professor Louw Hoffman from The University of Queensland has – and he thinks it could help future-proof our food supply.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

Social understanding

Sowing seeds of support

uqccla15 — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:48:50 +0000

20 January 2023When COVID-19 and extreme weather events wreaked havoc on global supply chains, it was small-scale local food systems that proved to be more resilient. If we want a future that sustains the world, we must learn to serve nature first.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Energy, water and resources

Environment

How well to humpback whales hear?

uqccla15 — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 22:10:12 +0000

24 November 2022In 2017, a research team discovered air guns used for marine exploration were loud enough to affect humpback whales up to 3 kilometres away, potentially changing their movement patterns as they migrate.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

Does a 4-day work week help or hinder business?

uqccla15 — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 22:18:14 +0000

25 November 2022Companies participating in a new trial, along with business, economics and law experts have shared their critical insights into the viability of a 4-day work week.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Business transformation

Transforming societies

Overcoming Down syndrome workplace stereotypes

uqccla15 — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 22:14:00 +0000

22 November 2022Mia Johnston, Alana Pettigrew, Rebecca Flanagan and Michael Cox have high aspirations and a great zest for life. They’re living the kinds of lives a ��̽�� research project found is more than possible for people living with Down syndrome.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Social understanding

In disasters, people are abandoning official info for social media

uqccla15 — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 02:42:08 +0000

14 November 2022In an emergency, where do you turn to find out what’s going on and what you should do to stay safe? Associate Professor Stan Karanasios answers.

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Environment

Public and allied health

Many companies not on track to meet Net Zero

uqccla15 — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 23:27:05 +0000

3 November 2022Only one Australian energy company is on track to comply with the Paris Agreement, ��̽�� research has found. A new tool has been created to help other businesses get there.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Business transformation

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Transforming societies

How AI and mobile weather radars are preparing us for bushfire season

uqccla15 — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 23:35:18 +0000

26 October 2022This ��̽�� project aims to arm firefighters around the world with portable weather radars, giving them the ability to predict where embers might land.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Digital technology

Environment

Why more spring rain will bring more financial pain

uqccla15 — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:57:09 +0000

27 September 2022Australians are bracing for the third La Niña in as many years, bringing about the possibility of more heavy rain and natural disasters. So, what does this mean for you financially?

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

5 simple steps to a more sustainable life

uqccla15 — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 21:50:40 +0000

7 September 2022There are a lot of easy changes we can make at home to improve our sustainability, and ��̽�� startups are leading the way in creating sustainable products and services. See how.

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Materials and advanced manufacturing

Transforming societies

What are ��̽��’s longest running research projects?

uqccla15 — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 21:23:05 +0000

30 August 2022Ahead of Research and Innovation Week, we explored the University's longest running research projects. From viscus liquids, to women's health, these are the projects that have been running for decades and in one case almost a century!

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Materials and advanced manufacturing

Public and allied health

Social understanding

Is 'quiet quitting' the right decision for your career?

uqccla15 — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 21:09:45 +0000

29 August 2022'Quiet quitting' is the act of doing the bare minimum at work for the sake of your mental health. But how healthy is that approach, and what else can you do to find work-life balance?

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Business transformation

Social understanding

The health of Australian women is changing, so what happened?

uqccla15 — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 02:54:20 +0000

20 June 2022Since 1996, the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health has examined the health fortunes of four generations of Australian women.

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Public and allied health

Social understanding

Superworms: how plastic-eating larvae sparked a scientific breakthrough

uqccla15 — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 21:43:58 +0000

17 June 2022Superworms — beetle larvae that can eat and digest plastic — set the world alight this week. Now go behind the scenes to learn how Dr Christian Rinke made this incredible discovery.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

20 years of citizen science backs up findings on coral bleaching

uqccla15 — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:35:46 +0000

9 June 2022Volunteer-collected data on coral bleaching has been credited with supporting scientific findings about reef health across the globe.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

Red pandas face a fractured future

uqccla15 — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 22:52:42 +0000

6 June 2022The much-loved red panda is renowned for its tree-climbing ability and adorable nature, but new research shows the endangered mammal is being driven closer to extinction.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

Meet the Researcher: Dr Lida Omaleki

uqccla15 — Wed, 04 May 2022 00:01:28 +0000

4 May 2022Lida Omaleki is a long way from where she grew up in Iran, but the Doctor of Veterinarian Medicine feels right at home in the University of Queensland labs, where she’s completing important work in support of a healthy, efficient chicken meat industry.

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Agribusiness

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Solution to world's largest waste stream: Make sand

uqccla15 — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:00:39 +0000

28 April 2022After water, sand is the most exploited natural resource on the planet. But how can we reduce the amount of mineral waste created during its extraction?

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Energy, water and resources

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

��̽�� researchers saving an Aussie icon

uqccla15 — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 22:54:16 +0000

19 April 2022How a new management approach could prevent the extinction of one of our most beloved creatures.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

Breeding season for bilbies

uqccla15 — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 04:04:30 +0000

14 April 2022This Easter there’s frisky business involved in restoring Australia’s endangered bilby population.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

WATCH: Bull ant evolves new way to target its pain

uqccla15 — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 23:34:44 +0000

26 March 2022Ever been stung by a bull ant? Hurts, right? Well now researchers have discovered they've found a new way to administer pain to one of their most fearsome predators.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

What can we learn about plastic inside the human body?

uqccla15 — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 23:15:34 +0000

21 March 2022Take a look inside the new Minderoo Centre – Plastics and Human Health. Here, researchers will discover whether there are plastic particles in our brains, blood, or urine.

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Social understanding

What does the Russia-Ukraine situation mean for our climate?

uqccla15 — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 03:34:41 +0000

18 March 2022The Russia-Ukraine crisis is already a human catastrophe. And it could also prove disastrous for climate action by slowing the global energy transition, says Dr Vigya Sharma.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Social understanding

Students who are first in family to attend Uni severely under-represented

uqccla15 — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 22:36:51 +0000

10 March 2022Associate Professor Garth Stahl and Dr Sarah McDonald found that during the transition to Uni, many students questioned the gender norms of their school and family environments.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Social understanding

How wastewater analysis helped stop the spread of COVID-19

uqccla15 — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 02:42:22 +0000

2 March 2022Analysis of Queensland's wastewater became a valuable tool during the peak of COVID-19. But how exactly did this help us overcome a pandemic?

COVID-19

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Energy, water and resources

Pooling risk to insure against natural disaster

uqccla15 — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 06:30:42 +0000

24 February 2022We have to pivot to a new insurance model for climate change before we go under, warns University of Queensland expert.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

Transforming societies

Climate is changing our mental health

uqccla15 — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 03:31:18 +0000

7 February 2022Associate Professor Fiona Charlson answers your questions about 'eco-anxiety' and explains why climate change is affecting how you feel.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

Social understanding

Deep-sea fish eyes are not freaky by accident

uqccla15 — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 22:59:58 +0000

14 January 2022Deep-sea fish may look like creatures from another world, but why they have such unusual eyes seems to be the result of an evolutionary process of specialisation.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

A vision of Indigenous health and wellbeing

uqccla15 — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 02:06:38 +0000

10 January 2022Cancer is a leading cause of death in Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Read how an Indigenous ��̽�� professor aims to change this.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

Back from the brink: helping coral reefs recover

uqccla15 — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 21:59:59 +0000

7 December 2021Stabilising reef rubble may help corals recover faster after being damaged by the impacts of climate change and natural degradation.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

Turning barren mine waste into productive soil

uqccla15 — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 01:58:35 +0000

2 December 2021Hardy microscopic bacteria are working to turn the red mud by-products from alumina refining into life-sustaining soil.

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Energy, water and resources

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

WATCH: How smart is an octopus?

uqccla15 — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 01:18:05 +0000

22 November 2021The unique brainpower of octopuses – known for their intelligence and Houdini-like escapes – has been revealed by University of Queensland researchers.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

Social understanding

The butterfly effect

uqccla15 — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 22:38:56 +0000

18 October 2021How Torres Strait Island butterflies could help conservation efforts.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

Social understanding

Plant proteins changing consumer meat demands

uqccla15 — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 23:02:31 +0000

12 October 2021For many people, nothing beats the taste and texture of a big juicy burger, but how do you recreate that eating experience with sustainable plant-based protein?

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Agribusiness

Energy, water and resources

What lies beneath: volcanic secrets revealed

uqccla15 — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 21:41:21 +0000

17 September 2021Lava samples have revealed a new truth about the geological make-up of the Earth’s crust and could have implications for volcanic eruption early warning systems.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

Social understanding

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

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Designing technology for tomorrow

Public and allied health

Food systems and the bioeconomy

uqccla15 — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:54:41 +0000

13 September 2021Modern food systems must take into consideration the complexities of sustainably producing nutritious food while reducing the use of increasingly scarce and fragile resources to meet the needs of consumers, writes Professor Matthew Morell.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Building better bioeconomies

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Transforming societies

Mapping a better future for coral reefs

uqrwestb — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 23:20:13 +0000

9 September 2021How a ��̽�� researcher used satellite imagery to create habitat maps of every coral reef in the world for the first time ever.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Environment

Impact

The secret to sorghum’s adaptability

uqccla15 — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 23:02:44 +0000

25 August 2021A world-first development of a sorghum pangenome provides unprecedented insights into the genes that makes sorghum such a hardy and resilient crop.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Agribusiness

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Queensland’s own gympietides hold hope for new painkillers

uqccla15 — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 22:49:07 +0000

23 August 2021The Gympie Gympie tree, native to Queensland and northern NSW, has become much more than just a bushwalker’s menace.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Environment

Leading healthy lives

Using DNA to build cattle tick resistance

uqccla15 — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 23:13:29 +0000

15 August 2021A ground-breaking multi-nation study has shown that breeding strong tick resistance into all cattle breeds is feasible, indicating that cattle tick may be much more effectively managed, or even eradicated.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Agribusiness

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Getting to the heart of the matter: why rural and remote health research has value

uqccla15 — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 04:41:34 +0000

10 August 2021��̽�� health economists have partnered with a rural health and medical research network to shine a light on the value of rural health research.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Leading healthy lives

Public and allied health

The ‘glass half full’ approach

uqccla15 — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 03:36:55 +0000

5 August 2021How to make environmental offsets appealing to rural winegrowers.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Agribusiness

Researchers smash avocado production bottleneck

uqccla15 — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 00:24:51 +0000

17 June 2021If you enjoy avocado on your toast in the morning, you will soon be thanking University of Queensland researchers for keeping up the supply of your favourite breakfast fare.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Agribusiness

Building better bioeconomies

Transforming societies

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

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

Take 5: Our researchers make sense of the world 5 questions at a time

From the outback to the Olympics: how native food is changing how we eat and buy

Heavy rain, flash flooding are possible later this year. Here’s why

New high-tech spray holds out hope for native trees

Bioplastics vital in fight against ‘wicked' plastic pollution

Do I need the new COVID booster?

8 ways to tone down the Christmas lights to help wildlife – and why we should

We thought we’d find 200 species living in our house and yard. We were very wrong

Bouncing back into your career

How deep freezing native plants could prevent extinction

����̽�� designates campus in Queensland biomed hotspot

PM awards innovation prize to ����̽�� venom researcher

Home insurance bills are soaring as climate risks grow

No boundary: From Brisbane to Perth, Broome and Darwin

Groundbreaking report details how Australia can make net zero happen

UFOs, a secret program, and an alleged cover up

Could lasers be the key to forecasting volcanoes?

For our Elders: Q&A with Lorelle Holland

Rising monkey and pig populations pose human disease risk

Striking a nerve

Bees abuzz for biosecurity in avocados

Predators munch on crown-of-thorns starfish

Interest rates could return to normal next year, but here's what you should know in the meantime

Tales from the reef: wild encounters in a marine wonderland

This problem weed is evolving

Addressing the challenge of water scarcity in Chile

Could fungi really be the last of us?

Snakes can hear more than you think

How a digital tool aims to prevent Vietnam's Dengue epidemic

Why fly larvae could be the future of sustainable meat

Sowing seeds of support

How well to humpback whales hear?

Does a 4-day work week help or hinder business?

Overcoming Down syndrome workplace stereotypes

In disasters, people are abandoning official info for social media

Many companies not on track to meet Net Zero

How AI and mobile weather radars are preparing us for bushfire season

Why more spring rain will bring more financial pain

5 simple steps to a more sustainable life

What are ����̽��’s longest running research projects?

Is 'quiet quitting' the right decision for your career?

The health of Australian women is changing, so what happened?

Superworms: how plastic-eating larvae sparked a scientific breakthrough

20 years of citizen science backs up findings on coral bleaching

Red pandas face a fractured future

Meet the Researcher: Dr Lida Omaleki

Solution to world's largest waste stream: Make sand

����̽�� researchers saving an Aussie icon

Breeding season for bilbies

WATCH: Bull ant evolves new way to target its pain

What can we learn about plastic inside the human body?

What does the Russia-Ukraine situation mean for our climate?

Students who are first in family to attend Uni severely under-represented

How wastewater analysis helped stop the spread of COVID-19

Pooling risk to insure against natural disaster

Climate is changing our mental health

Deep-sea fish eyes are not freaky by accident

A vision of Indigenous health and wellbeing

Back from the brink: helping coral reefs recover

Turning barren mine waste into productive soil

WATCH: How smart is an octopus?

The butterfly effect

Plant proteins changing consumer meat demands

What lies beneath: volcanic secrets revealed

COVID-19 killing coating a spray away

Food systems and the bioeconomy

Mapping a better future for coral reefs

The secret to sorghum’s adaptability

Queensland’s own gympietides hold hope for new painkillers

Using DNA to build cattle tick resistance

Getting to the heart of the matter: why rural and remote health research has value

The ‘glass half full’ approach

Researchers smash avocado production bottleneck

How ��̽�� researchers turned CO2 emissions into electricity

��̽�� designates campus in Queensland biomed hotspot

PM awards innovation prize to ��̽�� venom researcher

What are ��̽��’s longest running research projects?

��̽�� researchers saving an Aussie icon