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Dr Dorina Pojani, from The University of Queensland’s School of Architecture, Design and Planning.

A researcher asked 10 people to go car-free for 20 days. None wanted to continue

Despite saving hundreds of dollars and even making new friends, none of the people who agreed to ditch their car for this Brisbane experiment wanted to go car-free permanently. This is why.

  • Felicity Caldwell

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Brisbane mother-of-three Amy Wilson was diagnosed with endometriosis last year, aged 41.

The five-minute test that could fast-track diagnosis for thousands of women

Endometriosis affects roughly one in seven Australian women, yet it takes on average six to eight years to be diagnosed.

  • Courtney Kruk
The old Albion quarry, since replaced with suburban houses.

Australia’s oldest dinosaur fossil found in a Brisbane suburb

As a Brisbane schoolboy, Bruce Runnegar unearthed a fossil in a suburban quarry. He kept it for 68 years, taking it with him all over the world, never imagining he was carrying something 230 million years old.

  • Marissa Calligeros
The Phenotype Analyzer Chip, developed by doctors at the University of Queensland, could revolutionise the way one of Australia’s deadliest brain cancers is treated.

The test changing how one of Australia’s deadliest cancers is treated

The diagnostic device requires little more than a non-invasive blood sample and was developed in a Queensland lab.

  • Courtney Kruk
Methane escaping from a since-sealed coal hole in Queensland’s Surat Basin.

The small patch of paddock emitting 10,000 cars’ worth of methane

A single hole in country Queensland has a climate impact equivalent to 10,000 cars – and it’s just one of 130,000 unsealed boreholes across the state of concern for researchers.

  • Cameron Atfield
A University of Queensland researcher has confirmed a boulder at a regional school contains one of the highest concentrations of dinosaur footprints per square metre ever documented in Australia. Dr Anthony Romilio from UQ’s Dinosaur Lab has identified 66 fossilised footprints left in the Callide Basin in Central Queensland during the Early Jurassic period, around 200 million years ago.

A boulder was donated to a high school 20 years ago. Only now has its secret been unearthed

One of the highest concentrations of dinosaur footprints ever documented in Australia has been hiding in plain sight at a regional Queensland high school.

  • Savannah Meacham
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The University of Queensland was the preferred institution for four out of five of the courses offered in last week’s tertiary round.

Uni health courses attractive, as QTAC sends out thousands more offers

The second round of tertiary offers saw more than 13,778 courses offered to recent graduates and adult applicants pursuing higher education in 2025.

  • Courtney Kruk
Former Aussie rules umpire Ian Stewart is calling for policy changes and funding to support athletes in receiving holistic healthcare following the impacts of concussions.

An umpire was viciously assaulted. Thirty-four years later, he’s still suffering

As Ian Stewart reflects on the damage caused by an angry player, a Queensland academic explains why decision-makers shouldn’t be surprised by “concussion crises”.

  • Nick Wright
The Cane Toad Times - 2024 edition.

Underground Brisbane magazine The Cane Toad Times hops back into print

The satirical Joh-era magazine has been resurrected during a time of fake news, climate change and global crisis.

  • Tony Moore
Dr Nasim Amiralian hopes the new packaging will be on shelves in four years.

A sweet discovery: Food packaging that can kill viruses and extend shelf life

It is made from sugarcane waste, and it can kill viruses and bacteria in 30 minutes.

  • Liv Casben and Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson