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The Federal Minister for Education Dan Tehan MP has announced A$35 million in funding to establish the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science at the University of Queensland.The new research centre will focus on research to unlock the...

The International Panel on Climate Change has used University of Queensland research to update its National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Guideline for the first time in 13 years.Researchers from UQ’s Advanced Water Management Centre (AWMC), have spent a decade gathering data on...

The Australian Government has awarded a Curtin University-led research mission AU$50 million over the next 10 years to help improve the lives of people with traumatic brain injuries of all severities, from concussion in sports to severe brain injuries from road accidents.The research funding goes...

Researchers at the University of Canterbury are working on an ingenious new solution to turn food waste into valuable chemical components that could be used to make bioplastics.At UC’s Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, Dr Alex Yip is leading research into food waste conversion, and...

Researchers from the University of Otago, who have been undertaking a study to document the biodiversity of Loch Ness by collecting DNA left in the lake, have revealed that they have made a surprising new discovery about the Loch’s famous monster resident.The research team, led by the University of...