Swordfish can spot their prey while swimming at 100kph or at ink-black depths of 1000m – and UQ postdoctoral fellow Kerstin Fritsches wants to know how they do it.

Babies were often unwelcome burdens and many children were seen as "a menace" in 19th century Britain, a University of Queensland study has found. Examining an area largely unexplored by historians, Dr Mary Kooyman's PhD study of attitudes to…

A University of Queensland researcher has co-authored the world's first graduate textbook on quantum computation and quantum information. Associate Professor Michael Nielsen, Principal Research Fellow in UQ's new Special Research Centre for Quantum…

University of Queensland Architecture Department staff and students have overcome numerous challenges to design a breezy, environmentally-friendly house on "the block of land from hell". It is the first environmentally-sustainable development house…

Married couples who have lived together before tying the knot share housework more equally than those who do not, a University of Queensland study has found. "Cohabiting couples are more egalitarian and more liberal about housework than married…

Up to 80 percent of dogs and cats dying from infestation by the lethal paralysis tick could be saved as a result of breakthrough University of Queensland research. Research by PhD student Fiona Campbell of the…

Four UQ students and their two environmentally-friendly, baseball-firing robots will represent Australia at one of the world's major robotic championships in Japan on March 5.

A breakthrough by University of Queensland and US researchers has brought the world a "huge step" closer to the next generation in computation - quantum computers. With scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, Professor Gerard Milburn…

Trade unions need to become more involved in political issues affecting society's "battlers" to remain relevant, as advocated by long-time activist and Order of Australia recipient Jack Mundey. Dr Mundey's "new way of thinking" for the future of…

University of Queensland PhD student Ulrike Siebeck has won a doctoral fellowship to study fish off Lizard Island. The third-year student with the Vision, Touch and Hearing Research Centre is the 2000 Lizard Island Doctoral Fellowship winner enabling…

An old diary discovered in a trunk in a Brisbane home has opened the door on the world of the Russian country gentry in the 1850s.