University of Queensland

Those melancholy tunes sung by humpback whales may really be a sign of loneliness.

Dr. Christina Zdenek from UQ's School of Biological Sciences, in collaboration with QUT's Professor Damian Candusso, played three different sound frequencies to captive-bred snakes one at a time in a soundproof room and observed their reactions.

University of Queensland researchers has demonstrated a link between endometriosis and ovarian cancer subtypes

A study has found that 1,500 endangered languages could no longer be spoken by the end of this century. The research has been published in the 'Nature Ecology and Evolution Journal'.

An astronomer from the University of Queensland (UQ) has detected unexpected radio waves being emitted from stars, pointing to the existence of previously undiscovered planets.