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Robots set to conquer the final frontiers

A camera system designed to work like a human brain could help robots go further, including machines built for space and undersea explorations.

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Ahead of the Brisbane Olympics, it’s time for Australia to get serious about esports

Most of us have heard of esports but many don’t realise the fast-growing world of competitive video gaming features tournaments, university scholarships and billions of dollars in revenue.

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Ditch dance course, uni performing arts review advises

A dance major at a leading university should be cut, with subjects in dance teaching offered instead, a review has found.

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Flood of troubles continues for shuttered Art Museum

It's unknown when, or if, Brisbane's QUT Art Museum will reopen its doors after flood damage and a decision to nix its 2025 exhibition program.

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Uni freezes dance intake amid performing arts audit

The only university in Queensland to offer a dance qualification isn't taking new students. But with the Olympics in 2032, it will need more dancers than ever.

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She was 15. He was 26. Sonia Orchard’s Groomed proves her abuser was wrong: age isn’t ‘just a number’

I was in my mid-twenties and lecturing at QUT when I was sexually assaulted by a student. It was the last Friday of semester. After class, he – a private school boy and writing major – accompanied me to the car park. He had offered to carry my books. When…

The Conversation

Queensland university apologises for ‘hurt’ and ‘offence’ caused at anti-racism event

Parliamentary inquiry into antisemitism on university campuses hears Carumba Institute’s national symposium attracted criticism over alleged ‘anti-Jewish’ speakers

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Promises museum won't shut, despite ditching 2025 slate

A leading university art museum has cut its 2025 program, including a career survey by artist Jemima Wyman. She says she is devastated by the move.

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7 Of The Coolest Careers You Didn’t Know An IT Degree Would Help You Score

The IT industry is booming, which means you can find pathways into some truly unique and interesting careers with only an IT Degree.

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For Deaf people, train travel can be a gamble. But an AI-powered Auslan avatar can help

For Deaf people, train travel can be a gamble. On an average day, nothing goes wrong: they catch their train to their destination and carry on with their business.

The Conversation

Liquid metals might solve puzzle of shipping hydrogen

Cutting emissions from transport and agriculture could be possible after an Australian discovery published by researchers from three universities.

AAP

Bot-like Accounts On X Fuel US Political Conspiracies, Watchdog Says

Bot-like accounts on social media platform X that spread misinformation and hate ahead of Britain's election are now amplifying conspiracy theories around US politics, a watchdog investigation revealed Tuesday, as the race to the White House kicks into high gear.

International Business Times

Gut health identified in combating Parkinson's disease

Researchers have received $4 million to work on a treatment they hope will slow or stop Parkinson's disease by targeting gut health.

AAP

Australia’s chief scientist takes on the journal publishers gatekeeping knowledge

Under Dr Cathy Foley’s world-first open access model, all Australians would have access to research papers for free

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Drones being used to protect Antarctic biodiversity

Scientists are surveying remote areas of Antarctica with drones, hoping to protect plants and animals in the fragile ecosystems in the face of climate change.

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Hydrogen-electric plane to take to Aussie skies in 2024

A Brisbane company has revealed plans to retrofit and fly a hydrogen-powered light aircraft, in a development that could reduce pollution from air travel.

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Bots on X worse than ever according to analysis of 1m tweets during first Republican primary debate

Researchers identify sprawling bot network of 1,305 accounts active during Republican debate and Donald Trump interview

ABC News

Brisbane 2032 asked to deliver on regional Olympic Games promise

Brisbane 2032 was built on a promise of being an Olympic Games for the entire Pacific region, but Oceania nations know the risks that "legacy 2032" will be a hollowed-out exercise in short-term political spin.

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Elon Musk under fire for Twitter’s shifting rules on state media

Disinformation scholars sound alarm amid growing prominence of Chinese and Russian state media accounts on platform.

ABC News

Queensland University of Technology has 'no way to verify' if hacked data from thousands of staff and students was sold

Hackers accessed nearly 4,000 tax file numbers as well as bank accounts, super details and home addresses in the December cyber attack.

ABC News

University students relying on food banks, skipping meals as cost of living bites

QUT student Caila Frost hasn't eaten fresh fruit and vegetables in more than a month, and lives on two-minute noodles, as cost of living bites.

ABC News

Researchers design bushfire safe room that can withstand almost 1,000 degrees Celsius

Queensland researchers develop room of last resort to withstand temperatures close to 1,000 degrees.

The New Daily

Gem of an idea! QUT team unveils jewellery that tells you to get out of the sun

Researchers from QUT have come up with UV-sensitive wearables, tacking an important issue here in Australia.

The Guardian - AU

‘No actual teaching’: alarm bells over online courses outsourced by Australian universities

Exclusive: degrees marketed as being from major universities are increasingly run by third-party companies with pre-recorded lectures and no tutorials

ABC News

Female STEM trailblazers speak out as women in science internationally celebrated

On the seventh International Day of Women and Girls in Science, two of Queensland's most brilliant scientists speak about how they chose their careers.

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