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Billionaire Clive Palmer shares a birthday cake with surging One Nation leader Pauline Hanson on May 27.

Palmer trademarked ‘United Nation’ days before Hanson meeting

Clive Palmer’s latest political trademark filing sparked speculation of a right-wing alliance, but experts say it fits a pattern of “frivolous” late-night ideas.

  • Cameron Atfield

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Chlaymdia is one of the many threats Australia’s dwindling koala population faces.

‘Crazy mistake’ undermines historic koala chlamydia vaccine, researcher says

The vaccine a decade in the making had been heralded as a cure for one of the biggest koala killers out there.

  • Julius Dennis
Wastewater analysis shows methylamphetamine (ice, speed and crystal meth) consumption reached the highest levels recorded across all Australian jurisdictions since the program commenced in 2016,

Toxic tide: Queensland’s cocaine and meth use hits all-time high

The latest wastewater analysis reveals a staggering rise in ice use, with Queensland recording the second-highest increase in the nation.

  • Courtney Kruk
The research project, led by Brisbane City Council, has been ongoing since 2018.

Two in five drivers who park in Brisbane’s CBD don’t pay a cent

Forty per cent of drivers manage to dodge Brisbane’s nation-leading parking fees, while frequent commuters can nab an on-street spot in under three minutes, a new report shows.

  • Felicity Caldwell
Dr Dorina Pojani, from The University of Queensland’s School of Architecture, Design and Planning.

A researcher asked 10 people to go car-free for 20 days. None wanted to continue

Despite saving hundreds of dollars and even making new friends, none of the people who agreed to ditch their car for this Brisbane experiment wanted to go car-free permanently. This is why.

  • Felicity Caldwell
Brisbane mother-of-three Amy Wilson was diagnosed with endometriosis last year, aged 41.

The five-minute test that could fast-track diagnosis for thousands of women

Endometriosis affects roughly one in seven Australian women, yet it takes on average six to eight years to be diagnosed.

  • Courtney Kruk
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The old Albion quarry, since replaced with suburban houses.

Australia’s oldest dinosaur fossil found in a Brisbane suburb

As a Brisbane schoolboy, Bruce Runnegar unearthed a fossil in a suburban quarry. He kept it for 68 years, taking it with him all over the world, never imagining he was carrying something 230 million years old.

  • Marissa Calligeros
The Phenotype Analyzer Chip, developed by doctors at the University of Queensland, could revolutionise the way one of Australia’s deadliest brain cancers is treated.

The test changing how one of Australia’s deadliest cancers is treated

The diagnostic device requires little more than a non-invasive blood sample and was developed in a Queensland lab.

  • Courtney Kruk
Methane escaping from a since-sealed coal hole in Queensland’s Surat Basin.

The small patch of paddock emitting 10,000 cars’ worth of methane

A single hole in country Queensland has a climate impact equivalent to 10,000 cars – and it’s just one of 130,000 unsealed boreholes across the state of concern for researchers.

  • Cameron Atfield
A University of Queensland researcher has confirmed a boulder at a regional school contains one of the highest concentrations of dinosaur footprints per square metre ever documented in Australia. Dr Anthony Romilio from UQ’s Dinosaur Lab has identified 66 fossilised footprints left in the Callide Basin in Central Queensland during the Early Jurassic period, around 200 million years ago.

A boulder was donated to a high school 20 years ago. Only now has its secret been unearthed

One of the highest concentrations of dinosaur footprints ever documented in Australia has been hiding in plain sight at a regional Queensland high school.

  • Savannah Meacham