Forget medals, ancient Games athletes battled for olive oil
The Olympics were only one aspect of sport in ancient Greece - often overlooked is that these Games were part of a circuit of 4 international sporting festivals.
9 May 2025
I work as a sensitivity reader – and racism is harder to spot than you’d think
Racism lies in the misrepresentation of marginalised communities, writes Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»'s Dr Allanah Hunt.
9 May 2025
Markets are choppy. What should you do with your super if you are near retirement?
For Australians approaching retirement, recent market volatility may feel like more than just a bump in the road, writes Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»'s Dr Natalie Peng.
24 April 2025
Technology that combines infrared lighting, robotics and a retroreflective marker is allowing scientists to follow and film insects as they fly in their natural environment.
5 December 2024
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» researchers are setting the agenda for breeding high yield, heat tolerant and disease-resistant crops and low emission cattle with excellent feed conversion efficiency as they search for the ultimate genotype.
20 November 2024
A competitive swimming program developed by Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» researchers for young people with severe cerebral palsy has reversed motor decline associated with the condition.
19 November 2024
Growing Australia’s quantum ecosystem will be the focus when hundreds of delegates from government, industry and research converge in Brisbane next year.
19 November 2024
A three-year pilot project led by Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» has shown installing shade structures in largely treeless paddocks could increase calf survival rates.
19 November 2024A Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»-led study has revealed how alcohol and gambling companies target people with Facebook advertising for addictive products.
18 November 2024
A First Nations Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» academic is aiming to help address the under representation of Indigenous people in Australia’s pharmacy workforce.
31 October 2024-Megan-Pope-Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»_620.jpg?itok=uTpSZiOn "Professor David Jordan, Dr Geetika Geetika and Professor Andrew Borrell investigate a sorghum crop.")
A research team led by Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» is on track to solve a major problem for Australian farmers using targeted breeding to improve yields for sorghum crops.
28 October 2024
An Aboriginal epidemiologist and a leading gynaecologic oncologist have been elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
25 October 2024
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» research has found the traits people value in a romantic partner can influence their dating choices.
15 October 2024
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» will pioneer quantum sensory methods that could improve the detection of performance-enhancing drugs in the lead up to the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
15 October 2024
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» researchers have created new tools that could change how conservation experts monitor and protect some of Australia’s most endangered species.
15 October 2024
A tissue-culture propagation technology developed at Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» to grow hundreds of plants from a single cutting is set to bolster avocado production across Latin America.
9 October 2024
A Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»-led project to develop the first-ever drug to treat heart attack and protect donor hearts will move to human clinical trials, after receiving $17.8 million in funding from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF).
7 October 2024
More than 1,400 experts have visited Brisbane for the world’s only scientific meeting dedicated to influenza, chaired by Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»'s Associate Professor Kirsty Short.
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