Kenji Sato

The scientists found that four pre-existing drugs successfully eliminated cells  that were found to speed up the effects of ageing on the brain, so-called "zombie" cells that grew faster in a COVID-19-affected brain.

David Waldie's dream is to become Australia's next musical talent. His debut album Speak Your Truth challenges perceptions on Down syndrome.

Queensland University of Technology's vice-chancellor says the institution will move towards "inclusive suitability" rather than merit because "the workforce needs to reflect the students coming through".

Ambulance crews are turning up at wrong addresses and getting lost due to confusing house numbers and outdated GPS, and they warn it could cost lives.

The Queensland Audit Office reports that the state's councils over the past five years have found assets such as vast stretches of road, lost due to administrative blunders.

Instagram and TikTok users are being lured to their deaths in the search for the perfect selfie, researchers have found.

When Ellena Stone learned her neighbour might not have long to live, she decided to help plan her wedding. In just ten minutes they had everything from a photographer to a cake.

When the fitness enthusiast discovered that push-ups alone were not enough to help these boys, he set about founding the Men of Business Academy in 2020.

When he's not pondering the depths of the human mind, Michael Thai is coming up with psychology-themed song parodies for his students at the University of Queensland.

You may not have heard of it, but flag football fans insist it will be the next sporting craze to sweep the nation.

Thanks to 355 drivers in Ipswich who took part in Australia's largest ever study of "connected vehicles", researchers are confident that intelligent cars and traffic lights could soon be an everyday feature on the nation's roads.

A ferry crashes into and sinks a private boat in the middle of the Brisbane River.

A Brisbane City councillor has apologised for calling her colleague a "b*tch" during a council committee meeting on Tuesday morning.

How a bunch of Australian hobbyists hit the big slime and became officially recognised ghoul hunters. 

A man is lucky to be alive after he tried to staple a sign to a power pole in August this year, and electricians fear it's only a matter of time before someone is killed.

Brisbane City Council's deputy mayor has failed to substantiate her claim that Greens candidate Kath Angus is soft on crimes such as shoplifting and break-and-enters.

A speedy sheep shearer, an accidental dinosaur discoverer and a "Human Rights Hero" are also on the state's shortlist.

Financial Counselling Australia chief executive Fiona Guthrie says the service could tempt desperate people struggling to afford the cost of living.

Researchers say sensationalist news reports about Queensland's "youth crime wave" are not backed by actual crime data.

The charity says it will have to close or stop offering housing if it can't get help meeting costly regulatory requirements.

Henry Wainwright says analysing more than 800 dates has shown funniness has no correlation with perceived attractiveness.

Dr Sang Kang, an orthopaedist at Redland Hospital, is a muscular medic with a licence to lift.

Rocco Zikarsky was always head and shoulders over the other kids in school, but it never occurred to him to play basketball until a friend suggested he'd be good at it.

Nesting season is approaching for critically endangered loggerhead sea turtles which lay eggs on Bribie Island where seemingly endless streams of four-wheel drives plough through their nests.

Dugong enthusiasts from Moreton Bay say Australians are known as great swimmers and the sea mammal would be the "perfect" mascot for the games in 2032.