UQ alum Maddison Keeney has won the silver medal in the women’s 3-metre springboard, the first Australian in history to win an individual Olympic medal in a springboard diving event.

Scientists have unearthed the deepest column of marine rock ever extracted from Earth’s mantle – the enormous layer below its crust – which could help reveal conditions at the dawn of life.

UQ is moving to protect Australia’s invaluable heritage of Indigenous languages with the development of a centralised digital archive.

The long-awaited genome sequencing of Arabica coffee could be the solution to producing a high-quality variety of Australian coffee, according to a University of Queensland researcher.