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Queensland city tops national solar panel list

Published on: 16 June 2018

Queensland is leading Australia’s rooftop solar boom with eight of the country’s top 10 postcodes for installations in the Sunshine State, according to the new Clean Energy Australia 2018 report.

How flexischools could help close the gap in Indigenous education

Published on: 14 June 2018

All Australian schools should provide high-quality education to all Australian students, including Indigenous ones.

Two out of five ain’t bad - UQ researchers share honours in ABC’s Top 5 science program

Published on: 6 June 2018

Two University of Queensland researchers have been named winners of the ABC’s 2018 Top 5 science program.

Criminals can’t easily edit their DNA out of forensic databases

Published on: 11 May 2018

Could criminals edit their genomes using cheap online kits to avoid being matched to criminal forensic databases?

DNA facial prediction could make protecting your privacy more difficult

Published on: 3 May 2018

Our ability to reconstruct physical features from DNA is advancing, but can we ensure the privacy of "anonymised" genetic data if we can predict the face of its owner?