Packaging up a sustainable future for Australian business

Researchers at Australia’s Food and Beverage Accelerator have developed a roadmap to help Australian food and beverage businesses shift towards more eco-friendly packaging.

29 April 2025
a pile of brown boxes, cups and utensils

Chasing History: Celebrating 40 years of the Great Court Race

For 40 years, the Great Court Race has been a test of speed, strategy and stamina in which UQ’s fastest students jostle their way through the arched cloisters, battling lactic acid and chasing a place in history.

29 April 2025
Three female athletes running around sandstone building with purple overlay.
Young boy resting his head on books

An international study has found a global target to eradicate childhood anaemia by 2030 will fail, presenting a major public health challenge.

13 August 2021
Collage of various synchrotron X-ray fluorescence microscopy images of hyperaccumulator plants. The colours denote different elements. This data was acquired on the X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy beamline of the Australian Synchrotron (part of ANSTO), Victoria, Australia.

Harvesting plants that can absorb metal from the ground may offer a sustainable solution for mining and rehabilitation according to research underway at The University of Queensland.

12 August 2021

The Australian Research Council (ARC) has awarded seven Future Fellowships to University of Queensland researchers.

12 August 2021
Artwork by Mandy Draper.

Improving the impact of high dementia rates on Indigenous Australians and communities is the focus of a University of Queensland-led telehealth project with a global track record of success.

12 August 2021
Denzel Strauss (foreground) at his scholarship presentation with Baidam Solutions staff including CEO Phillip (Pip) Jenkinson (kneeling in second row)

A University of Queensland commerce and IT student’s path to becoming a business analyst has been boosted thanks to scholarship support from Baidam Solutions – an Indigenous-owned Supply Nation-certified Information Technology business.

11 August 2021
An artistic impression of a flying Pterosaur

Australia’s largest flying reptile has been uncovered, a pterosaur with an estimated seven-metre wingspan that soared like a dragon above the ancient, vast inland sea once covering much of outback Queensland.

10 August 2021

Teens need to regularly switch screen time for physical activity for the sake of their health and mental wellbeing, according to a University of Queensland-led study.

10 August 2021
BMX rider airborne

The informal training methods of BMX riders could be the key to unlocking new heights for athletes, a University of Queensland-led study has found.

9 August 2021
Man holding glass of beer at a distance, smiling at it. Adobe stock

While it may irk some people to hear that the beer snobs are right, research has found that craft beer is scientifically unique when compared to mass-produced brews.

6 August 2021
Surgeon wearing scrubs looking into eye machine

A potential improved treatment for two of the leading causes of blindness – age and diabetes-related eye problems – has been demonstrated in research involving a University of Queensland expert.

2 August 2021
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University of Queensland researchers are refuting claims that COVID-19 can enter a person’s DNA.

30 July 2021