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UQ Mythbusters gives you expert advice on what to do to stay safe when being swooped by a bird – and how to avoid being swooped altogether.

A new facility at UQ is set to provide Australian researchers with cancer vaccines tailored to individual patients.

The Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition, and many other political leaders want to ban young Australians from social media until they turn 16. Is that a good idea or a regressive move that distracts us from the more important task of building forms of social media that enable young people to flourish?

As the next Queensland election approaches, both major parties have promised to ‘crack down’ on youth crime. But while Queensland currently locks up more children than any other state, is putting children in detention a viable solution and does it reduce the rates of re-offending? UQ experts explain.

Despite the endless array of products, advice, and pimple-popping YouTube videos, most of us probably couldn’t say with certainty what actually causes acne, nor which treatments are genuinely effective. UQ Mythbusters is here to clear that up.

UQ exercise physiologist and sport scientist Associate Professor Emma Beckman will head to Paris with Paralympics Australia as part of a small group of experts doing on-the-ground sport intelligence data-gathering.

It’s hard to know where to begin when it comes to cutting through the nonsense and understanding the science around sugar intake. So, 'Contact' called on a UQ expert who knows her glucose from her fructose: Professor Sarah McNaughton.

While a lot of profit stands to be made from alcohol and liquor licensing fees, we can’t ignore the harm it poses to young people.

University of Queensland PhD student Amy Zhao has discovered that we are attracted to people who look like ourselves.

For the first time, a person has been cryopreserved in Australia in the hope of being reanimated in the future. But the process opens a possible legal minefield, according to a UQ expert.